Yesterday we demolished a lot more of the concrete block walls. It poured down most of the day but cleared up round about 5pm so we went down and worked till dark. I didn’t bother filming it, but it was quite hard work swinging the hammer and filling up the skip.
Today was better weather so I tried out our new jack hammer, the best $145 I have ever spent, apart from the round on Jasons stag night but that’s another story. If I had to do todays work with sledge hammers and chisels it would have taken me four times as long. The jack hammer took a little time to setup as the instructions were in poor English with lots of warning about things being fatal! Anyway sorted it out, just had to get the oil level correct. Pretty easy to use and not too noisy, only effort involved clearing away the lumps of concrete. Drill itself weights about 35lbs and once you have it going you just have to keep it vertical which is pretty easy.
In case you are wondering how these time lapse relate to real-time. The camera takes a picture every 10 seconds. The software I use then combines them together at a frame rate of 20 – 30 per seconds (depending on how many days I am recording over). Anyway this relates to roughly 15 – 25 seconds of time lapse to one hour real-time.
Next job will be to remove the concrete steps. We want at least once entrance which is ADA accessible, so no steps.
If I look a little bedraggled at the end, well that’s because I am. I was pleased with the cooling breeze today and on the second time lapse don’t the trees look like they are dancing with the sound track?
Today I offer you:
Amazing! Don’t throw away any bits of slate sidewalk or slabs, I need a few pieces for missing bits in my walk! 🙂
No we are saying all the blue stone and you are welcome to find some bits to fit your path 🙂