Conduit

 The Gorse Fox had thought about getting up early to get some fuel. He was too comfortable. He didn't bother.  After breakfast he did have his usual call with the cousins. This was a little more subdued than usual, probably because Tim (who tends to be the life and soul of the calls) was suffering from an inner ear infection which was giving him vertigo. Let's hope he's better by next week.

Once the call was over, the Gorse Fox did go out for fuel. He was prepared for a long wait but was pleasantly surprised that there was no queue and no restrictions. We now have a full tank, and the Gorse Fox was only out for about 15 minutes.

We had some underground conduit delivered this week. It was time to unreel it and try to thread some string through so that a power cable could be pulled through. This proved to be a tiresome task. The Gorse Fox got a steel nut from the garage and tied the string to that. The nut was dropped into one end of the conduit and then dragged through using a strong magnet. The problem was that this was very slow and the conduit kept kinking. After the first 15 metres it was becoming impossible. The Gorse Fox trapped some more twine between two small strong magnets and dropped them into the other end. Dragging them through with another magnet, they soon met the steel nut. The Gorse Fox hoped he would then be able to pull it all back, but no. He had to return to the big magnet and fiddle it along the conduit centimetre by centimetre. Eventually it seemed to free up a bit and move more easily. The nut popped out the end. Its string tail was nowhere to be seen. It had clearly broken somewhere in the 25m conduit. The Gorse Fox remembered roughly where it had started to move more freely. It was well beyond the length that he really needed, so he cut the pipe. There was the string.This was quickly tied off so that it did disappear back up the pipe. The other end was also tied off. Now the reality of this is that the fact that string broke probably means that it isn't strong enough to pull the power cable through. Plan B was needed. The Gorse Fox has just returned from Toolstation with some polypropylene rope that should be more that strong enough.