a fairground life

It's coming up for two weeks in the shed now. The two main floors are nearly finished, just needing the hand rails and some fixings fitted. All the flooring is down on them. That turned into a fiasco as I had to lay the last few sheets three time before they fitted. Using the old floor as a template was quicker but not accurate, you always end up a few millimetre out here and there as the steel does not lay completely flat. I would have been quicker in the long run sticking to the measuring tape I think. Any way its the last round up as we started on the final front floor today. I originally guestimated two weeks for the floors so I will push on and try to get it finished for Wednesday. Then onto making new handrails, new bushes, NDT testing, repair the lighting and finally paint paint paint. The hard part is deciding where to stop. I think it will be at the four week period so that I can spend time on the DZ, miami and show.
Everyone else is working away hard at it too. The other rides in the shed have teams working around 10 hrs a day on them. There must be about 20 of us in total. It is amazing how much dust is created by the cutting,welding,grinding and rubbing down.
6 weeks and counting. The picture shows one section of the right hand floor hanging from the crane (12m x 3m) so we could cut up the old floor from under it.Then we laid it onto the outriggers to weld it to the other half.