Week on site

So, if I think back I have spent the week doing something, but when I look at the photo it doesn't seem like much. I started out back on Saturday borrowing the crane to fetch the rocks, that took most of the morning and I didn't have the energy to operate on anything else in the afternoon. On Sunday I drilled holes in the rocks to accept anchor bolts. I was going to just slot pins into them, but I realized that if I used anchors I could attach an eye nut to the threaded anchor and use that to lift the rocks into position. That worked well, but I had to weld a 16mm nut onto the 12mm eye bolt I had. The rock tilted over on the left is a spare that I will use for something else. Some people were in the habit of leaving little flower offerings by the sculpture, so perhaps a stand for some kind of vase.
After doing some rough positioning of the four pillar base rocks I discovered that one of the cedar trees would have to go, so I got permission from the land owner and chopped that down. I had to attach a chain block to it and apply some strain to pull it up the slope toward the tree with the ladder stood against it on the left. Chain blocks are not the best tool for a horizontal pull, but it worked OK. Tidying up the tree was a task I never got on to as my chainsaw decided to cease operations as soon as the tree hit the ground. I asked a neighbor to give me a hand with it the following day and he did his bit. I also had help the next day removing the bulk of the stump to position the final rock up at the top right.
The whole space frame construction here is to help me find the centers of the pillar bases. On the left and right are two sets of level boards. The extreme difference in height due to the slope meant having two levels marked out. The level on the right is a meter above the left. You can just see one tiny section of board on the right to correspond to the level on the left, which has a yellow line strung across. This line passes through the centers (or near enough) of the pins in the two front pillar rocks. Today I did my last measurement up to level to calculate the lengths of the pillars. I poured a thin slab of lead on each of the rocks to give the pillars a nice level cushion to sit on. This will also raise the outer edges of the pillar off of the rock and hopefully give them a little longer life along with the addition of copper bootees.
I took the sculpture off the site for a few days while doing all that and then popped it back to sit on some old stone drills about my shoulder height that I drove into the ground. It is still a bit wobbly, so I must devise a plan to reinforce these and provide a nice firm stand for the piece. Next week I am on to a different project nearby as a break from this. Then I will go back to working on the actual roof timber for about a week and should be on schedule to erect something on the site before the end of the month.