1st June 2014
Today the sun was shining which was good for moral, particularly with lower numbers, but we pushed on. Whilst earth layers are definitely more time consuming than gravel bags, we soon got into the rhythm of laying the connecting ring of barbed wire, and then laying the bags. We developed a technique for halfing the bags, folding back to half way, and then filling symmetrically from both ends around to the front. We then layered short bags to form the lobby and entrance in a coined pattern so no two layers’ of joints were ever in the same place on adjacent layers. It was slow going, tamping each layer and then measuring, tamping a little more and measuring… and we soon realised now accurate we needed to be with the over lap of each layer, by 6pm the seven of us were a tired but satisfied with our progress. However through out the day we had certainly realised that layering earth bags was no easy feat, and boy were we naive to think so. We’re getting there…
