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Monday 21st 47F/8.3C. Overcast but mostly dry this morning. Possible light rain this afternoon.
Up at 7.15 after dozing for ages. A fairly quiet night.
8.10 already. I ought to have a walk.
9.00 Just returned from my walk to the lanes. Cool, overcast and
slightly misty. Dozens of small voices in the hedgerows and overhead. It
took ages to walk off the lower back pain. Traffic very light. A
helicopter passed directly overhead at very low altitude completely
invisibly.
11.00 No more lazing on YT! I had better see what can be done with the remains of the observatory.
I have bought some cheap new blades to replace the crap supplied with the DeWalt bayonet saw.
I am having to be extremely careful. The 4x4s [100x100] upright posts
are heavy. The whole building is resting on the ends of these. So it
could drop or tip over as I saw them away.
12.15 Back in from sawing protruding timbers from the observatory. I am hot, breathless and knackered but recovering quickly.
The
last panel of plywood cladding is still attached next to the
shed/workshop. Its weight and stiffness is holding the remains at an
angle. 13.30
Lunch over, so I went back out. As soon as I had sawn through the lower
double beam it started raining. The beam dropped as if free at the far
end. Though it is completely inaccessible to the saw at that end.
I
wonder if the whole thing would tip forwards. If I pulled it with the
ratchet strap using the car. I fear that panel would resist rotation. Or even damage the shed.
17.00 Back for a rest. I am dripping with sweat! I managed to sever the timbers attaching the last cladding panel. Then I attached the car to the ratchet straps and took up the tension. I leaned on the straps. The whole floor unit toppled over and I was so surprised that I fell on my bum! No harm done.
Now I just have to cut up the flooring. To free the joists. The stainless steel, Torx screws showed no interest in coming undone.
Dinner was a chicken and mushroom curry. More than twice as much as I needed! I washed up while the rice simmered.
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