Woulfes Hill

Why sea change when you can tree change?

Building Permit received October 2020

Job completed 13 February 2021

Certificate of Final Inspection 7 July 2021

Shifting The Box

We've inherited a forty foor container that we just can't let go, so it will act as a site office for other projects, plus a great starting point for the JumpTrack, but first it needs to be relocated.

At present, and please don't ask why, it's precariously standing over a proposed cellar on some timber off cuts and I'm not allowed to shift it without Council Approval, but I can stand under it, I can walk inside it and I can climb on the roof, but I can't shift it! Eventually it will fall or slide or something.

We need Building Approval to relocate it and that's now underway, but we will probably place it on six 'Surefoot' pedestals should Council accept that technology. This is a concept where you place a platform on the ground, then drive four long stakes through that platform deep into the ground, and then adjust your container, or shed or house or other building until its level then clamp it down and go looking for your next beer - about two months planning then two hours installation; pretty much like the Royal Adelaide Hospital project except they would chat for two years.

Then we need to pick up three tonnes and move it a couple hundred metres.

Then after that, I paint it and the Boys will jump the 2.5 metres to ground level! And no doubt after a couple beers I will try to emulate that seemingly simple stunt.

Well, in October council approved the Surefoot footing design and gave the go-ahead for relocation. Big problem now is getting a crane at a good rate!

The original site, stacked on pieces of timber and a schematic of the proposed Surefoot footings

Here the Surefoot footings have been prepositioned

Then the poles are jack hammered in 1870mm

... and here the box gets relocated on the end of a 25 tonne crane

In its final resting place awaiting some paint, but done!