Carpentry students begin the construction of the ring beam by cutting 18mm ply wood into strips ready to make a beam for setting the straw bales onto the foundation of tyres. These foundation students had never used this type of powered skill-saw before so they were a little apprehensive, but by the end of the day 88 strips had been cut to the correct width.
As you can see we have also erected a temporary shelter to keep out the worst of the weather.
The next stage for the carpenters is to screw it all together to form the beam as you can see here.
