Van Stadens

Friday, 3 June 2011 Another trip to Van Stadens, this time to connect the final piece of pipe to take us all the way to the storage tanks. We first had a look how the trench had been filled in, a rough job with the frontloader but at least it is covered. We wanted to […]

Thursday, 26 May 2011 After the miserable, cold, rainy day yesterday it was a pleasure to be out at Van Stadens this morning. We were suitably impressed with the furrow the guys dug for us, no messing about through the fynbos by the road and all the way to the end inside the nursery by

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 Public holiday today for the few workers amongst us because of election day. This meant that Neil could come out to give us a hand with the latest leak. On arrival we found Rob already hard at work digging in the pipe along the big drainage furrow from the N2, he

Saturday, 14 May 2011 Today we wanted to map the whole line with the gps and combine that with connecting the missing bits, turn on the valve and check for leaks. We were hoping that the Van Stadens staff had at least made a start with the furrow they promised to dig for us and

Saturday, 07 May 2011 Yesterday a quick runout with Neil to reassemble the pesky join and, as we were advised by a plumber, cast the whole lot into concrete so it would be able to withstand the pressure for sure. While we did this Ellie did a quick run up and down Ladyslipper and came

Saturday, 30 April 2011 Did the runaround yesterday to find high pressure glue for the the join and also had the bright idea to put a shackle around the thin pipe and try and pull it out with the car so we set off with high hopes to tie up a whole lot of loose

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 I indicated previously that the number of unfinished jobs on the line was getting a bit out of hand so today we concentrated on finishing a few things and the old nursery was a good candidate. Ellie and I arrived quite early and we dug the first section of pipe in

Tuesday, 26 April 2011 No pictures taken today, just a quick run out with Neil to install the air release valve on the line and to try and fix the pinhole leaks by the shack. As it turned out the clamp we brought was too big but I applied a temporary bandage with a piece

Saturday, 23 April 2011 Teamwork today, Neil, Rob, Jenny and us. We hoped to give it a good go today and we did, even though some of us didn’t see it that way. It is just such a lot of work that sometimes it is discouraging to see how little one can achieve in a

Thursday, 21 April 2011 Did the pipe really go underneath the road, that was the question which needed to be answered today so as soon as we arrived we extended the last hole we dug and found that instead of disappearing underneath the tarmac the pipe made a sharp turn back again.   We felt