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Day one

Our old friend with the tractor arrives at the crack of far too early, to reprofile the side and back of the building area.



His English is worse than my Thai but we managed to communicate. He than managed a passable version of what I wanted.



It is still early when the team arrive, in the Company flagship, and start unloading.

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This little beauty has the latest Isaan style, paint injected front hubs.



...and is loaded with high tech soil cutting equipment.



On first inspection, the crew seem to be a bit standoffish. The large chap is the gang foreman by the name of A? (like it's a question).



In truth, they spent a long time discussing such burning issues as why there were only four of them, just how much they were getting and dodging large piles of sand and stones that were being dumped all over the working area. Actually, we would have any number of twelve members of the gang, at any one time, on an ad hoc basis. After A left, the guys started to loosen up a bit.

That's God, the joker, on the left and Sing, the string man, on the right.



Here is Chit, the rebar man, making the all important soil test and a few holes for leveling poles.



The lads soon got on with it and started on the marking out.



Sing copied everything down into his notebook,



...and started to set up the first of many string lines.



Here, we hit our first problem. The preposed site wasn't square.