Materials delivered:

 - The metal sides and accessories for the deposit

 - 15 lorry loads of sand and countless pallets of cement

 - More water

 - Miles of metal bars to create a reinforcing structure

Equipment hired:

 - 4x4 Dumper

 - 4x4 Cement mixer/dumper 4x4

 - Vibrator – the biggest in the world – to take the bubbles out of the cement

Still waiting for:

 - Roof of chicken house

Found source for:

 - Irrigation pipes

 - Chicken house “furniture” – laying boxes and feeders



Problems encountered:

Because the site of the water deposit is so high it was essential to have a 4x4 dumper and if possible to have a 4x4 drivable cement mixer so that the materials did not have to be moved from the position that the suppliers leave them. In fact the distance between the materials and the deposit proved to be too far so the dumper was used to move materials half way up the hill and the cement was mixed there.

Having received the materials we had an incredible search to get the dumper and cement mixer – every company we went to told us their dumper or mixer was out and they could not say when they would be returned – but promised to let us know when they had it back. Men are such fibbers!! It took several days to finally track down what we needed and when we did it was from the first place we had visited – and of course they had not phoned us!!

Achievements:

Patrik and Tomas worked like demons – sometimes helped by Martin and they managed to get two more onto the team – English Pete and Czech Pete!

With the additional help the deposit started to take shape quickly and before everyone went off to Czech the first 1m high ring of the walls was completed. The finished deposit will be 3m high.

By the time they get back in November the concrete will be well set and the final two rings will go up even more quickly ready to start connecting the irrigation pipes on each of the terraces. Hooray!