Bodies Abound

So here we have the beasts - four 20' truck bodies all in a row. Now, it may seem that they look a bit askew, but that's just the camera angle and the perspective. I can guarantee that not only each of the bodies is level in all three axes (try a spirit level along the floor, across the floor and on a vertical if you don't believe me!), but the bodies are within an inch of error over the 38' long site. That's positioned laterally to an accuracy of 0.2% or roughly half the width of a gnat's cock.

What you will notice is that the goat field has a definite slope on it. Behind the chicken shed is the boundary with the neighbouring holding and the field slopes down to the track from the house and the yard in front of the toy shed. Hence the vertical terracing on the truck bodies. When the landscaping work is completed, the trackway along the front of the sheds will be sloped slightly between the bodies in order to mitigate the slope as best as we can,

Left to right: The tractor Eco used to shuffle these into place, a stack of IBC's awaiting repurposing, the slightly tatty mobile chicken shed we have been using as storage up to now and four bodies.

The pile of timber laying to the side of the fourth body is the 9"x 2" planks and the 6" x 6" baulks (fenceposts) we used as sledges to gently ease the units into position over the concrete blocks.

Once each body was in approximately the right position, we did the final adjustment by hand using timber and a hi-lift farm jack. Once set on the base blocks, adjustable wedges were used between each chassis rail and each block. These gave us the fine tuning (to within a few millimetres!) to the final seating.

Reading from left to right again:

1 - Still has the original roller shutter tailgate and will be the general storage shed.
2 - Designated as Retrotecchie Ltd office and tea-makings!
3 - The Woodwork Shop
4 - The Metalwork Shop