It would have been easy to have started making minor repairs to some of the walls, but I decided that it would be better (and more rewarding) to completely dismantle a section of all and rebuild it.
I decided that the best place was one of the walls where I could make some mistakes, well out of sight. With potentially 150m of wall to be repaired, the task is fairly daunting. So I thought it would better to strip down and repair a 2m section. Let’s not strip down 10m, then work out that I can’t really rebuild it!
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| All in n a day’s work |
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| A stripped out section of wall and the foundation stones |
So today in 4 hours, I managed to strip down a 2m section, dig the foundations and put in the foundation stones. Tomorrow, I will see if I can rebuild this section of wall up to the coping stones.
I did take a while to mark out the line of the wall (to ensure that my 2m section is in line with the remainder of the wall). The road pins in the photos are set to be 600mm at the base of the wall and 300mm at the top (set as a metre high). The top of the road pins are held in place with some home made wooden clamps.