Before The Start!
This is what the garden looked like before we began to dig!

Old Building
This is the unsafe old building that we dismantled behind the house in order to get the stone we needed

The Hole!
My friend Martin, checking everything is ok after he had excavated the first few layers of soil.

The hole gets bigger!
The hole gets bigger, I get more stressed!

Oh No!!
How am I going to lay concrete foundations in this mess?

Readymix Concrete arrives!
Another daunting task, I have forty five minutes to offload 6 cubic meters of concrete!

Phew!
Foundations laid and ground prepared for the floor before the snow arrives!

Big Stones!
When I got to grips with the stones i realised that many of them were too big and heavy to move! I had think of something.......

The Solution..
...with the help of another friend, Steve Husband (genius), we built a portable tower crane that could revolve through 360 degrees and lift a 500kg stone to 2.5 meters in height!

Crane
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A very big stone!
The crane works beautifully! I cannot guess acurately how heavy this stone was, but i could not make it move an inch on the ground without some huge levers, however, no problem for this apparatus. Thanks Steve!