Wednesday 5th August the first rain for 47 odd days so the soil is now sticky.

                                         

Today is get the new shed base down with the help of Mike so a dry start would have been useful as the loose soil is now sticky and the timbers are wet. We screwed the 38mm sq base timber frame to the 4 x4 post for strength and height doing one half first this was then levelled with bricks and slate then in filled with ash from the steam trains to consolidate it.

                                                  

With section one done we continued with number two and did the same but leaving the excess 4x4 so a locker can be added sometime in the future.

 

once level we put the ash under the main timbers and then added the insulation and started laying the floor boards however the few hundred 30mm nails were mixed in a bag with hundreds of screws so some sorting and picking was required.

                     The enamel sign is coming on well and a separate post will be done on the process.

We have a new collection to clean up as exhibits

We have purchased a small furnace for melting aluminium cans to cast some signs this needs assembling.

The Morris cab has had more paint and the floor is in

Then it was home time.