All In A Day's Work

To give you an idea of how we get the clay out of the basement, here's a bit of a photo essay on today's happenings.

Here's Mike and Jesse in the bathroom basement on the end of a "5-foot boom".  They'll fill up those two pails with two shovelfuls of clay.  You can see all the pipe work that's in the way. 

They then carry the pails over to the hole in the wall and throw them through the opening.  Here's Brad lifting a couple of pails through the hole in the wall to Adam and Jesse in the baggage room basement.  Usually there's only one person in the baggage room basement as the other person is in the main waiting room basement.

This other person carries the two pails over to the hole in the wall in the furnace room basement.  Here's Mike in the main waiting room basement sticking his head into the baggage room basement on his return trip with empty pails. 

The person in the baggage room basement then carries the pails over to the opening in the furnace room basement and passes them through the opening.  The person in the furnace room basement then carries the two pails up the stairs, along the platform, across the tracks where he dumps the clay along the edge.  The empty pails then make the return trip back into the bathroom basement where the whole process is repeated again.

Here's a photo of the young lads who were helping us on this project today - shovels appropriately crossed.

And here's a photo of the whole ugly group of us at the end of the morning.  Quite an ugly mess, eh!?  That clay we're standing on was 18" higher two hours before. 

We start all over again next week.