A drama filled day. I had aspirations of an early start and a full day of work. I was up at 8, but at 9 I was back in bed. I wasn’t feeling great, and as I’m doing at the moment, I am prepared to rest when I need to.
So, I resumed slightly after 12. It turns out that the trailer I was to borrow wasn’t registered, so I headed off to Amberley Hire. I there incurred my first expenses of this project - $15 for a half day hire. I intend to have a separate page linked to this blog which tracks my expenses – I’ll get onto that.
The first trailer journey with 0.5m^3 of 19mm premixed sand and stones ($20 a load) was uneventful. I hadn’t really known how long the process of getting a load, driving home, unloading it and returning was going to take. Hence I started becoming aware that I was running out of time. I reckon the whole process took a bit over an hour for one load, and I needed to push things a bit if I was going to get done in time.
So, on the second journey I was pushing things a little bit, but not driving silly fast. I was going about 60km/h I reckon, on a gravel road, when the trailer starts sliding around behind me. It wasn’t long before the trailer had knifed and I slid to a halt, car and trailer sprawling all over the road. Part of the trailer was ruined, and there was a small mark on the borrowed car. I think I got out of this one pretty well.
I returned to Amberley Hire where the guys were awesome about it, they are going to charge me about $30 I think for a new piece of metal which they will weld in. They gave me a new trailer with tandem wheels.
So, I got 3 loads today, amounting to about 1.5m^3. I think I’ll get another 2 loads tomorrow morning, as well as hopefully some corrugated iron for the roof, some windows, a door, and some rebar for the foundation.
Raking the gravel off the trailer took a bit out of me, so once again at the end of the day I’m nicely done. I think that is 5 days in a row without a sickness crash, good times.
So, I resumed slightly after 12. It turns out that the trailer I was to borrow wasn’t registered, so I headed off to Amberley Hire. I there incurred my first expenses of this project - $15 for a half day hire. I intend to have a separate page linked to this blog which tracks my expenses – I’ll get onto that.
The first trailer journey with 0.5m^3 of 19mm premixed sand and stones ($20 a load) was uneventful. I hadn’t really known how long the process of getting a load, driving home, unloading it and returning was going to take. Hence I started becoming aware that I was running out of time. I reckon the whole process took a bit over an hour for one load, and I needed to push things a bit if I was going to get done in time.
So, on the second journey I was pushing things a little bit, but not driving silly fast. I was going about 60km/h I reckon, on a gravel road, when the trailer starts sliding around behind me. It wasn’t long before the trailer had knifed and I slid to a halt, car and trailer sprawling all over the road. Part of the trailer was ruined, and there was a small mark on the borrowed car. I think I got out of this one pretty well.
I returned to Amberley Hire where the guys were awesome about it, they are going to charge me about $30 I think for a new piece of metal which they will weld in. They gave me a new trailer with tandem wheels.
So, I got 3 loads today, amounting to about 1.5m^3. I think I’ll get another 2 loads tomorrow morning, as well as hopefully some corrugated iron for the roof, some windows, a door, and some rebar for the foundation.
Raking the gravel off the trailer took a bit out of me, so once again at the end of the day I’m nicely done. I think that is 5 days in a row without a sickness crash, good times.
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