a fairground life

The work on the skydiver has started well. "b" had half a side of the floor stripped before I even turned up at 9:30am. I helped him to finish it off. As the steel was to arrive after 1pm we left at 12 for a bite to eat. No sooner had we left and the phone rang.The steel had arrived early so we about turned. The driver backed in under the hook and we lifted the steel off. I used a strap that I had been given by "r" a year ago. It was rated for 5 ton, the bundle of steel weighed about 2 ton. We lifted the steel up and off the lorry. Now we had to move it down to the other end of the shed. If the crane had been working properly, I would have kept it low to the floor and steered it around the other rides. How ever because the left & right was not going I had only one choice-lift the steel up about 20ft then go straight over the top of the Dropzone, superbob, matterhorn to the skydiver. It was then I thought-is this strap ok? If this load drops it will make a funny mess! Thankfully it made it all right, but my heart was in my mouth! Later 'r' arrived after sitting a uni exam. I picked up the profile lugs to make the hinges. The cutting job was not very good and the eyes had to be drilled out for the hinge pins. So 'r' spent 3 hours on the bench drill. While he was doing this 'b' stripped the rest of the flooring and I made the first 6m long hinge beam. In between times the electricians arrived and repaired the crane. That's was a good job done. It was nearly 9pm by this time so we called it a day. All in all a very productive 12 hours. Hope we can keep the pace up.
The photo shows half the flooring stripped off the skydiver.