Property Update

A few photos to share of our Shade Canopy being constructed. 

On Friday a truck came to remove the heavy machinery as the frame structure is now in place. Sadly it got bogged. The driver then moved a big Cherry Picker machine into place to pull the truck out. It too got stuck. Maneuvering it onto a concrete strip just led to smoking rubber. 

I thought we were done for but the driver thought about the problem scientifically. He moved the swinging arm and cherry picker frame to the back end of the machine and extended the arm out as far as possible. This meant that weight was no longer over the front wheels - which were digging in to the turf. Instead they were raised a little, the rear wheels bit and the machine moved forward.

We hooked up the truck - I have my Heavy Traffic license - and between us we were able to get the truck out and one machine - out of three - onto the truck and offsite.

It took a whole hour, but I was so impressed with the scientific thinking of the driver to solve the problem.