Day 10: Concrete Torture

We knew all along it was very ambitious to take on the concrete pour for the gymnasium. 100 linear meters in hard clay with our mostly amateur labor force. Tim and Lachie had done an awesome job setting up and Lisa surprised us all with her steel fixing skills, working non-stop.

It was hard work shoveling rock and sand and cement into mixers then wheelbarrow to trench. The morning was thankfully cold and foggy but the sun came out and we sweated and ached.

Everyone had a go but we kept losing power and time, so the end of the day saw only half done and just 80 bags of cement used of 240!!! It was a very tired team that went to bed.

We had delayed our camping trip to give a day to this and our tow "trailer" ended up being a 1.2m dog box that somehow 14 of us were to carry everything in!