After a lot of stress and delays finally the time has come!
20ft container arrived on site… with 1,5 hour delay from scheduled time but at least it’s here!
We waited a long time for this moment…
The truck has to come as close as possible to reach the place.
Than it has to be stabilised by expanding hydraulic outrigger legs
Now we can mount twistlocks ‘on the fly’
And here we go, let’s put it in place…
It needs a bit of pushing…
Almost there…
After few small adjustments it’s on it’s place and ready for welding.
Hayden and Chris from Petone Engineering did a great job helping is to align container in the position to make sure it makes a square with 40ft container that will go on top.
Unfortunately not everything went perfectly right…
This middle leg was supposed to be under the beam 😉
We knew it was a bit off, as during the pouring, pump guys filled the tube up to top with concrete and those ones were supposed to be up to marking not top. So when Cosmin was vibrating concrete and I was toweling it they moved the leg slightly to take concrete surplus with shovel and when I got to it concrete was way too hard to move anything anymore there… well and it looks like we got it off more than we thought anyway…
We will have to ask Derek, our structure engineer from Kerslake and Partners what can we do about it…
Anyway it fills like big progress and we start having some shapes there…
We are super glad that we did drainage and put gravel under container, it’s so much cleaner and nicer to work around it now, and we don’t have standing water under retaining wall any more so…. it works 🙂
That was a long and exciting day 🙂
