Rome wasn't built in a day.

[D14 AYS]

Dear God! Are these builders the best C4 could get what a bunch of tossers.

[Laurel Green]

I suspect getting builders to work for six months on site, is not going to attract the best out there.
If they are really going to hew the timber required from trees, without any electricity/modern saws, they will be pushed to finish within the time-scale.

[Laurel Green]

Fantastic cart they have there!

[R6dug]

Spoiler!!

Well it was completed and looks quite good.
I live about 3 miles from the build and was quite intresting watching it go up.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Nice authentic Egyptian wheel barrow

[coanda]

I like that one of them has thought ahead and got 'witty' t-shirts made up.

[Laurel Green]

Westy Pre-Lit said:

Nice authentic Egyptian wheel barrow

'Tis alright for the Prof to say the Romans didn't have wheelbarrows as he doesn't have to push/hump the rocks around. Anyway, I thought they did have a rudimentary triangular, flat-bed barrows around in those good-old-days.

[Laurel Green]

R6dug said:

Spoiler!!

Well it was completed and looks quite good.
I live about 3 miles from the build and was quite interesting watching it go up.

I take it you never volunteered to help with the build?

[EDLT]

Did anyone on that show really think that six people would be able to build that in six months?

[Laurel Green]

What's all this with the modern scaffold? I thought only authentic Roman stuff was to be used!

[D14 AYS]

That chunky lazy "Chief" labourer would get my lace holes all over his fat arse

[Laurel Green]

The chap hasn't a clue as to what hard-graft really is. Everything is done with use of something with a plug on the end these days. Mind, if he lasts the course, a man it will make of him!

[EDLT]

Laurel Green said:

What's all this with the modern scaffold? I thought only authentic Roman stuff was to be used!

They can use modern equivalents (like plastic buckets). The Romans (probably) had scaffolding, although it would have been wooden.

Not sure about the hi-vis vests though, its not like they are going to be killed by a Roman delivery truck.

[Jasandjules]

Well, I certainly enjoyed it.

The builders tend to have a good sense wit on them in the main, not a great surprise that they are struggling with the physical aspects of it - they didn't look like gym bunnies....

I loved the way they had no idea just how skillful the Romans were even two thousand years ago.....

[Laurel Green]

Just a heads-up; tonight at 9 C4.

[Laurel Green]

The Professor chap needs a slap. He obviously knows nothing of the building game yet thinks 'his way' is best.

[ammaco]

Laurel Green said:

The Professor chap needs a slap. He obviously knows nothing of the building game yet thinks 'his way' is best.

There is no evidence of Roman barrows!

[KenBlocksPants]

R6dug said:

Spoiler!!

Well it was completed and looks quite good.
I live about 3 miles from the build and was quite intresting watching it go up.

Hi neighbour

[Jon C]

ammaco said:

Laurel Green said:

The Professor chap needs a slap. He obviously knows nothing of the building game yet thinks 'his way' is best.

There is no evidence of Roman barrows!

Absolutely. They are supposed to be doing it authentically. Thats why they should have nailed the elfen safety tabbard and its contents to a cross and put it by the entrance to the site as a message.

Mind you, the Romans had no neck collar for horses, yet the donkey pulling the cart had one...

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

I've been meaning to [mgmtspeak]throw my two pennorth into the wishing well[/mgmtspeak]...
...it looked to me that they were using "modern" yellow building sand for the lime mortar.
Shirley shome mishtake?

Shouldn't it be graded sharp sand otherwise won't the mortar crack under load and frost?

regards,
Jet