I’ve been recovering from an intensive two weeks making this (I’ll let the photos do most of the talking, but it is at my daughter Anna’s partner’s house on the hill. The doglet is our Poppy’s pup, Honey. She kept up a constant ‘throw the ball for me’ routine every evening when Anna came home. The cappuccino maker was good, and the weather mostly kind, though the heat and the drying out of fresh plaster was a problem). Overall I think it worked really well. I had to fly back before the scraping and carving was all done, and the sealing and painting. Marco is apparently doing all that as I write. Will upload photos of painted and planted gardens when i get them!
- drawings were doodled on as progressed through
- marked out with plaster of paris powder
- cheap rebar man. prices varied a lot…
- 3 metres cubed of clean sand. Only used 2 roughly
- used 40 0r so of these 25 kg bags cement, and 2 50m rolls chicken wire
- folded chicken goes over the rebars
- cutoff and bending jig for making the l shapes.
- height jig. Help – marco’s daughter. that night she broke her hand – at a party, not on site!
- sticking the rebar (6mm) – about 150mm into ground.
- two 6mm rebars along top. Sewing needle from coathanger
- we used black steel tie wires precut – sold in bundles, it’s better than bag ties ive come to think!
- 10mm rebar for arches, bent around barrel
- 6mth pregnant anna cooked lunch
- drought victim or ball-chaser at play ?
- other doglet is an older poodle, very sedate
- Anna and her Marco
- lots of weed matting… there may be a better way…
- i folded and hand-bent – squished – 150mm wide roll of chickenwire around the arches.
- constant need to redampen…
- thin wire round the 6mm branches so plaster sticks
- trying three lacing wires at once wound round..
- Sika fibre, cemix plasticiser
- scratched plaster for better key of next coat
- whiter = dryer. also we used a sponge finish.
- ah, the coffee… View out my window.
- 40 grit sanding of fresh plaster – for rounding etc it worked a bit better than scraper
- help! and good help too; hard to find
- i thought Do a Bird on this arch
- sanded bird shows furry fibre. Can be singed off or just painted over
- off to airport… no time to linger.