Today was weird from the beginning. Even the sky was weird, it was cloudy but with the yellowish color of sun light…. I had this surrealistic feeling of being in space and emptyness.
Nick and Nick (N& N) had stayed up all night last night to build a jig, and this morning they left early to get the dually and take the jig to site with out me. Since I ride everyday with them and I had my hat, gloves, and the rest in their car I got to the site without anything with me.
Miss frances had a little bit of infection in her ear, so she decided to go back to auburn to see a doctor. We started our day at site with ten people who two of them were tired.
We took the first half of one arch on the west side down and cleaned the leftover pieces of wall. While poor Erin had blood all over her because of nose bleed for no reason!
N & N tried their jig on the arch and it did not fit, so we (nine of us) helped them taking it down.
After lunch John hurt himself while he was bending to put down a piece of wood, and charger of a screw gun fell on the back of his head, and it started bleeding!
N & N started to fix the jig. Van mostly and some other people helped them and finished it around 4 Pm, the rest of the crew were working on the second half of the arch, and as we were almost done with it, the cherrypicker started to do not respond anymore; It didn’t move backward; Van was standing up there and we realized it’s been having oil leakage and it’s not in a good situation, it took us longer to take it down, because we had to figure out how to do it safely ….
BUT! We did it!
Fuller sent the autocad file of jig for her mom. We got a very positive feedback. It’s totally doable. It was done nicely; however, there is gap between every single piece of wood in each arch and it was so hard measuring them. Thanks to Nick and Nick who worked all night last night and today and whoever helped them.
PS. Erin didn’t get a chance to run today afternoon, because we got back very late, it was getting dark and was rainy, and she had half a CHOCOLATE icecream, she called it fat tuesday, very sad for her….i’m sorry Erin