Game Log Week 4

( last week of March )

Group - long meeting on Monday night, talking about the plans for the farm-fort and the construction schedule of it. Work can not start until the land sale is finalized, which will be late April. The plan would see major work done by end of July and finishing details done by end of August. 

( see end notes on construction )

Scott "trucker"- Had a job that took him out of town for 4 days. He then buys 2 more ISO boxes, placed at his house, for storage of equipment and useful junk.

Ranger Bob – looks for other land, just in case the deal does not work for Migic site.

Farmer Brown – looks at Migic site, talks to old owner, who has lived there all his life. His aim is to get a very good idea of the lay of the land.  Doreen goes with him.

Doc & Grunt – start work with Kateri’s friend’s construction company. This provides money and valuable work experience building houses.

Kateri – more design work for base. The plan could be her final project for university, but the group would like to keep it secret.

Kellyanna – out of town 3 days for anime convention.

May Lin – acquires 4 Sanyo Pro 700 phones, which have walky-talky ability.

Marco – who is an electrical engineer, joins the group. He has some good ideas on plan for the farm-fort, especially for the power system. Also he brings up the question of security systems for it.      

End Note – construction schedule

Repairs to road – 3 days

Clearing of woods for building and farm field – 6 days

Placing plan markers – 1 day

Digging main basement, utility trenches, wells and geo-thermal system – 5 days

Placing basement containers & joining them – 3 days

Cutting air vents and access panels – 2 days

Placing main level central building boxes & joining them – 3 days

Cutting windows and access points – 2 days

Placing main level central building boxes & joining them – 3 days

Cutting windows and access points – 4 days

Placing second level central building boxes & joining them – 3 days

Cutting windows and access points – 4 days

Building of internal stair ways – 2 days (moving in of heavy / bulky items – same time)

Placing of outer ring of containers & joining them – 2 days

Placing dirt mound around outer ring – 4 days

Some items can run at same time, but this provides basic order of events. Total 47 days.

Internal work will include the following;

Electrical systems 3 weeks

Plumbing systems 2 week

Drywall installing 2 weeks

Door & window hanging 2 weeks

Most of this work can run at same time over a 3 week period, about 21 days.

Thus we have a minimal estimated time of 68 days – continuous work.

Of the group who will be doing work –

full time; Katiri, Doc, Grunt, Brown, Yvan,

part time; Doreen, May Lin, Scott, Bob, Marco.

A plumber will need to be hired. 

More extra hands may be needed.