With
the first storey of stone pretty much installed, now the real fun began. Twice the
height, twice the lifting.
Plus building up a sufficiently elevated crane, trolley
and scaffold sytsem was necessary.
This is the northeast corner looking west..
With
the first storey of stone pretty much installed, now the real fun began. Twice the
height, twice the lifting.
Plus building up a sufficiently elevated crane, trolley
and scaffold sytsem was necessary.
This is the northeast corner looking west..
About
half way up the second storey on the west (and later on the east) it was desirable
to have windows.
A wooden 6 x 6 frame was made and around the frames the stones
were laid.
Over
each window were installed an antique cast-iron window lentle.
There were exactly
six of them for exactly six windows in the stone part.
As can be seen they are
sufficiently heavy and by inference, sufficiently robust to support the stonework.
The
upper right corner shows the underside of the lentle.
Here
are two completed windows with their final rows of stone above them.
The third
storey will commence again with windows.
Pretty
tall.
So this pretty much defines the year 2011.