This installment is late due to my doctors and other appointments and rain slowing down things on the ground. Fairly early last week or the week before, this truck rolled in with a drilling rig from Anora Foundations.
Once that semi was out of the picture—me taking a shot from Level 6—a CAT digger followed by a truck with ancillary equipment.
The crews meeting at the top of the site, the scene of operations for the week …
For a while we residents were still guessing as to what was needing foundations
Getting the machinery operational took a full morning and then it was on … the drill being shook to dislodge all the rubble …
Pole shaped rebar arriving …
And that wasn’t the only thing going on, in between showers of rain, the workers ‘village’ was getting its walkways covered.
All the trucking movements, and dare I say the continuing rain, meant that the road to the platform had to be repaired and strengthened before the cement mixer trucks could come to fill the holes …
Close up of the machinery … I was walking by the herb garden, on my way to yet another appointment.
And finally the result … a row of foundations. Probably for a retaining wall is the general opinion.
Rita de Heer 