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00:05I'm Don Chennair. I'm a mechanic and self-taught engineer.
00:13For the last seven years, I've been helping people to fix their treasures on the repair shop.
00:19My God! That's called me my surprise.
00:22Now, together with my wife, Maria...
00:24I still think we should have a castle door.
00:26You don't know that, Carl.
00:28Hey, I'm helpful. Very helpful.
00:31And dog Wendy.
00:33Come on, inside. Test it out for us.
00:36Yeah, very good. That is going to be your seat from now on.
00:40We're embarking on a more personal adventure.
00:43We've packed up our lives in Kent.
00:45This is it. I'm done. We are out of here.
00:48And moved to our dream Cornish farmhouse, complete with outbuildings and two-acre garden.
00:56There's a lot to do, but my first priority is transforming the derelict, very smelly cow shed.
01:03This is very strange.
01:04Into a modern, Cornish weatherproof workshop.
01:08Look at it.
01:10To help me settle into my new home, I'm going to use my skills to fix things in the local
01:16community.
01:17This is what it's all about for me, getting involved with people that need my help.
01:20I've recruited my new local friend and fellow engineering nut, Sam Lovegrove, to help.
01:27Yeah, now we're moving.
01:29Just like the Formula One teams, hey?
01:31As we hunt for some Cornish treasures...
01:33What are they doing here? Why are they not in the field?
01:35Wanted to cover solo.
01:38...that need fixing...
01:39Hey!
01:40Look at that.
01:41Yes!
01:41...and polishing.
01:43I've got the vision. You guys have to deliver it, Sam.
01:47Thank you so much.
01:49It's a whole community and more that enjoy this.
01:54Even the chicken's happy about it.
02:01On beautiful days like this, it's fairly obvious why we'd want to make the move down to this part of
02:07the world.
02:08And one of the benefits of having a couple of acres of Cornish countryside is there's plenty of room to
02:14dig.
02:18And one of the first things Maria and I both want to do is create a garden pond.
02:23Sam here.
02:25The pond.
02:27Slash lake.
02:29Slash lake, exactly.
02:31Slash swimming pool.
02:33But before our ambitions can run away from us, we first need to find the right spot.
02:40Here?
02:41Yes, I think it's perfect.
02:44This whole idea of the pond, which is lovely for wildlife and a very nice thing to have, visually, is
02:50dependent on if we can find any water.
02:54So a borehole is the plan, because there's no natural river or stream or ditch.
03:00A borehole means drilling into the earth in the hope of striking water, if there's any to be found.
03:06OK, well, don't forget, we're going to put the barbecue area in a seating boat over here, so you need
03:10to leave enough space.
03:11We'll aim for over there somewhere, but that would be the best spot.
03:14Yeah?
03:15Yeah.
03:16Can we use it also for the barbecue?
03:17We can use it for the barbecue.
03:18Let's see, before we get there, let's see if there is actually water there first.
03:23And that will confirm that we can have a pond.
03:26OK.
03:27Right, fingers crossed, we have to find some water.
03:29OK?
03:30OK, all right, I'll go back to work.
03:31See you in a bit.
03:33Yee!
03:34Exciting.
03:38I'm hoping I can keep Maria's excitement alive.
03:41Oh, there he is.
03:42As a few phone calls later, I've found David, who works for an industrial drilling company.
03:49Hello.
03:50You've certainly got your work cut out here, Dom.
03:52Don't say that.
03:55I know, tell me about it.
03:58So, this is the pond.
04:00OK.
04:00I've been mowing it every other week to keep it down, but the problem is I've got no way of
04:05filling it.
04:05Right.
04:06So, I'm hoping we can find water, drill a borehole, and I can use that to fill the pond.
04:10Yep.
04:11Let's go and have a look, Dom, see what we can find.
04:15David's company provides drilling rigs capable of boring holes deep into the earth before pumping up any water it finds.
04:23As an engineer, I can't wait to get an eyeful of all of this exciting high-tech equipment.
04:33We've got a source of water running down through there.
04:37How on earth can you tell that?
04:40The rods tell me.
04:41That's not...
04:42That's 16, 17 metres down.
04:44Were you counting?
04:45Yeah.
04:47Now, we should pick that up again down here.
04:50Is that not baffling?
04:52Is that not insane?
04:54I knew water divining was a thing, just not a thing professional engineers did in the modern world.
05:02Oh, no, it's gone.
05:03Oh.
05:06Uh-oh.
05:07This is absolutely mad.
05:11Oh, yeah, it does dart off that way.
05:13Yeah, there, yeah.
05:14Because sometimes they're going like that, and then sometimes they're crossing.
05:16Yeah, that's because I'm asking it the same question, like looking for water, and it will tell me where that
05:22water is.
05:24Can I have a go?
05:24You certainly can.
05:25Can I?
05:26This is...
05:27A couple of brazing rods.
05:28A bit of welding rod, I was going to say, yeah.
05:29That's all it is.
05:30Well worn.
05:31If you come and stand here, face that way, and what you've got to think to yourself, if you put
05:36your thumb on the top, that's it, just to steady them, you're looking for a source of water.
05:41Think of waterfalls.
05:42Think of belithopholes, whatever, think of running water, and you want to find that source of water, and you're actually,
05:50as daft as it may sound...
05:52Sounds quite daft.
05:53...asking them rods to find you water.
05:56Very slowly, just keep going.
05:59Keep sinking.
06:00Well, engineering is all about keeping an open mind to alternative solutions, so why not?
06:06They're going, Dom.
06:07They're moving, they are.
06:10Oh.
06:13Now, if you go forward, keep walking forward, and turn round, and do exactly the same thing coming back.
06:18That is so freaky.
06:19But just keep thinking to yourself, you're looking for that source of water.
06:24Right.
06:27There you go in.
06:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:28There you go in.
06:32Daft, don't it?
06:33That is the scariest thing I think I've ever done.
06:36That is so weird.
06:37Isn't it?
06:38And you guys, as a company, bear in mind it's 2025.
06:42This is how you do it.
06:43We're bearing in mind the expense and the time and everything involved in drilling a hole.
06:46You can confidently trust two welding rods, no scanning or X-raying the ground.
06:53You'll literally commit to digging a hole.
06:55Yes.
06:56The pond is a goer.
06:58The dream of digging a massive pond can happen.
07:00You're confident?
07:01I am, but I don't want to have to go and hide in it if there's no water there.
07:06Now you're getting nervous, see.
07:22I'm heading off to Pendene, a small coastal village that back in the day would have been busy with Cornwall's
07:29more traditional trades of tin mining and smuggling.
07:33It's a little bit quieter now, though.
07:36In fact, it's a lot quieter than it should be.
07:39This beautiful-looking church has got some bells which haven't rung for a very long time.
07:44We're about to change that.
07:47I'm meeting Howard and some members of the church community to see if I can help make some noise.
07:53Hello.
07:54How are you all doing?
07:56So what's the condition of the bells at the moment, then?
07:58The bells themselves are hung by a very old rope, so we're worried about those particular ropes.
08:05Piece of stress.
08:06Pulling the rope, literally, the bell is directly above your head, but three floors up.
08:11So if it were to fall, you'd be in the firing line.
08:15OK.
08:17Would you like to come upstairs?
08:20This ancient church has ten bells that need rehanging.
08:24So these are the actual ropes, yeah?
08:26These are the ropes.
08:27They go all the way to the top, yeah.
08:30Getting high now.
08:32We are, yeah.
08:33Oh, here they are.
08:34Here they are.
08:35The bells.
08:36OK.
08:37In all their glory.
08:39I see.
08:39So there's one of those kind of coat hanger-looking bits in the middle.
08:42As you pull the rope from downstairs, it swings back.
08:45It swings.
08:45And it swings the hammer in.
08:47Hits the hammer.
08:47Exactly so.
08:49Yeah.
08:50It's a very thick rope, but very old.
08:52And that's all that's holding a quarter of a tonne of bell or whatever.
08:56It looks straightforward.
08:57Just unhook it, feed the new rope through and hook it back on.
09:00But actually...
09:01It's the weight is the issue, isn't it?
09:03You can't just unhook it.
09:05No.
09:05Nowhere to pick them up from.
09:07But you know what?
09:08This is the perfect job for Sam.
09:10He will love this.
09:11This is an engineering challenge that he will embrace.
09:15I'm confident my new friend, Mr Lovegrove, will have some ideas to help with this engineering
09:20conundrum.
09:24Good afternoon.
09:25Sam, how are you doing, mate?
09:26You OK?
09:27Yeah, very good.
09:27How are you?
09:28Very good.
09:29And fortunately, he's come well prepared.
09:32To be able to see what we're doing.
09:33Yeah.
09:34Oh, wow.
09:35Look at that.
09:35That's a bit better, isn't it?
09:37If we're going to replace these worn-out ropes, we need a way to keep these bells secure while
09:42we do it.
09:43So, first, we need to work out how heavy they are.
09:47Look, I've got this piece of modern equipment in here, look.
09:51Is that my calculator?
09:52Stop it.
09:53Oh, it's solar-powered.
09:54Do you know you can do things like this on your phone these days?
09:57Oh, shall I?
09:58But I've always, I've used this since I was a kid.
10:01It looks like it, yeah.
10:03What do you think?
10:03You know what?
10:04There's not enough sunshine in here.
10:05I think you're right.
10:07I'll switch into something with a little more power.
10:10I like that calculator.
10:11It goes with the bag.
10:129.5 times 9.5 equals 90.25 times 3.14 equals 283.3.225.
10:25So, the volume of that cylinder is 63.7 litres.
10:32How on earth have you...
10:33Hang on a second.
10:34I have no idea how you've just worked that out.
10:36What?
10:37Why have I just got...
10:40Calculate the area of the circle, multiply it by the length, gives you the volume, and
10:47the area of the circle is pi r squared.
10:502.25, was it, the length?
10:51You got it wrong.
10:53R is radius.
10:54Ah, sorry.
10:55You are dead right.
10:56Shall we go again?
10:58Maybe it's the calculator.
11:00Maybe it's the...
11:01No, it's definitely me.
11:06Yeah.
11:07Okay.
11:08So, 8.44 litres for that long bell, and we get 74.3 kilos for the heaviest.
11:16Yeah.
11:17So, that makes more sense, doesn't it?
11:19That feels a little bit more realistic.
11:20Yeah.
11:21Now we've got the correct weight of the bells, we can think about building a contraption to
11:26hold them in place, while we replace that worn-out rope.
11:30I guess we're back to the workshop, and let's get that made.
11:33Plenty of homework.
11:34Yeah.
11:34Yeah, great.
11:44Our attempt to get the bells of Pendine Church ringing again didn't get off to the smoothest
11:49of starts.
11:51But, at Sam's workshop, we're working on a plan to support those heavy bells while we replace
11:57the worn-out rope.
11:59The great news is, I think we are getting somewhere.
12:01Between us, we've come up with a solution.
12:05Imagine this ruler is a piece of angle iron sitting across the two timber joists that are
12:09holding the entire bell mechanism up.
12:11Then we're going to get a piece of threaded rod, put a bend in the bottom, then this is
12:16a bell.
12:16It's got a bar through the middle at the top for lifting.
12:19So, we're going to get a piece of threaded rod, bend a hook on the end.
12:22That is going to hook into the bell.
12:24Then we can feed that up through our slot in the piece of angle iron.
12:27This is a threaded rod, so we can wind the nut down there, and as you do the nut up,
12:31the nut will bottom out on the piece of angle iron, and as you turn it more, what will
12:48do you want to start bringing my drawing to life?
12:50First, taking some angle iron, which will work as the top of our bracket, and using a milling
12:55machine to cut a slot.
13:04Now we've got the hole, we just need to create our threaded hook to fit inside.
13:10So, we've got a nice bit of stainless bar.
13:13This is the key, this is it, this is going to be a hook.
13:16This flame is about 2,200 degrees Celsius.
13:22We're heating the bar because, as it's stainless steel, it could crack if we try to bend it
13:27from cold.
13:29That's nice.
13:30Just finish it off nicely.
13:32Perfect.
13:33Very neat.
13:35Wow.
13:36I love it when a plan comes together.
13:38That hook will now fit into our suspending bracket.
13:41There we go, look.
13:43Right now, everything's worked out well.
13:44So, that will go across the beams.
13:46This is our suspending bracket.
13:49And then there's our hook.
13:51It's looking all right, isn't it?
13:53Perfect.
13:54So, we can just wind that up, and that will lift.
13:56As we wind that up, that will lift the bell.
14:00Perfect.
14:16Back home, and that peaceful Cornish countryside is now definitely a little louder than the
14:22brochure promised.
14:24That's crazy.
14:27David's company has returned.
14:32These guys have been here all morning drilling, and it looks like his rods were pointing in
14:37the right direction, as we did find water, but not enough.
14:42The water divining estimated 20 metres, 23 metres, and to be fair to him, there was a pocket of
14:51water around that deep, but nowhere near enough.
14:54They've actually drilled through that, found another pocket of water, but not enough.
14:59Drilling more to find a big enough body of water that we can rely on pumping out.
15:06And after the rather low-tech braising rods approach, I'm finding this much more my style.
15:12They've got this really coarse, tapered thread in these sections, and wind that up, undo the
15:20machine, retract the machine, screw the next one in, screw the machine back into the top
15:25of it, and send that down, and just undo it, work their way down.
15:33Amazing.
15:35So this is the drill bit.
15:38This is basically what they've been drilling with.
15:40It's a massive piece of steel, and these are tungsten inserts on the ends.
15:44They're not sharp.
15:45The machine's got like a hammering action, which, like an SDS, like a drill that you drill
15:49into concrete or masonry with.
15:50These are just munching their way through the hardest granite.
15:54And then this massive compressor behind me pumps air down through the drill bit, down
16:00into the hole, and that blows out all of the dust and dirt and grit and rocks and anything
16:06that's blocking the actual tube, the hole that they've drilled.
16:13And to find that elusive stream, we need to keep going down, deeper and deeper.
16:19My God.
16:21Jeez.
16:22We go past 30 metres.
16:24It's not looking good.
16:26And then 40.
16:29Then 50.
16:31How deep are you now?
16:32I'm looking.
16:3336.
16:34Just under 6 for me.
16:3560 metres.
16:36Damn me.
16:3860 metres deep.
16:39That is mad to think.
16:4160 metres is the equivalent of a 20-storey-high building.
16:45And the deeper we go, the more expensive this all gets.
16:50I'm not sure.
16:51My doubts of the divining are...
16:54I'm worried.
16:57And right on cue.
16:59Oh, no.
17:01What on earth happened?
17:03It broke down.
17:04Yeah, I think it was one of the...
17:06I think a pipe went in it.
17:07It's literally been running absolutely fine the last few months.
17:10At least we didn't lose a drill bit.
17:12Yeah.
17:12Something.
17:13Yeah.
17:13How deep has it gone now?
17:15It's 65 metres at the moment.
17:17So...
17:1865...
17:19I hope another 15 metres to go.
17:21No.
17:22Did we choose the wrong spot?
17:23Maybe there's another spot that you would have only had to go like five metres.
17:26Who knows?
17:30What's happened?
17:31I don't know.
17:32Is it the compressor or the engine?
17:33I'm just looking now.
17:36So it's thrown an ATL-1 error code.
17:41I think it's something sensor-related.
17:49So that's it.
17:49So you're good at what?
17:50An engineer's going to have to come out?
17:51Yeah.
17:51It's looking like that Monday morning, so...
17:53So you're going to leave everything here?
17:54Literally leave that?
17:55Leave it as it is.
17:5560 metres down in the ground?
17:57Continue Monday, hopefully.
17:59I've been waiting for this day for so long.
18:02That hole that they're drilling is so critical for the dream of having this pond happen.
18:08And I thought we'd get an answer today.
18:10I've been looking forward to it, like waiting for Christmas, but...
18:14Equipment failure.
18:15What can you do, I guess?
18:16Hey.
18:17I've got an anxious weekend and we'll find out Monday, I suppose.
18:31One of the joys of relocating your workshop to a county surrounded by water
18:36is that you're never too far from a stunning coastline.
18:41Here at Porth Town Beach, the local surf lifesaving club is one of the oldest in the country,
18:47running since 1955.
18:56But I've heard some of their equipment might be in need of a little resuscitation.
19:02Hi.
19:03Oh, hello.
19:03How are you doing? I'm Dom.
19:04Adam.
19:05I hear you need a hand.
19:06Yes.
19:06With this beast?
19:07Yes.
19:08Yeah, we really do.
19:09It's a really old, eco-rider, two-wheel drive, diesel quad.
19:15OK.
19:16Right?
19:17So it sounds like a jackhammer.
19:19Yeah, I heard it coming down.
19:20Yeah.
19:21So we use this for pulling our rescue boats down from our garage, which is just up there.
19:26OK.
19:26It's to train young lifeguards to be really competent in the water.
19:30OK.
19:30And then they go off and be R&LI lifeguards and they can do that all around the world.
19:36I'm really hoping I can lend a hand here, as although I've only just moved to Cornwall, I'm keen to
19:42become part of this local community and help out where I can.
19:45I'll show you what the issues are.
19:47Go on.
19:47So it's chain driven.
19:52So it fills with sand.
19:54We have to constantly adjust it and lubricate it because it just clogs right up.
20:03And then I'll show you where the gear lever is.
20:07So you've got a forward and a reverse.
20:11That's it.
20:11In that position, the bike will go forward.
20:14To make it go in reverse, you pull that right back.
20:19So what happens, you can see this is the top end of the chain here, look.
20:22Oh, it's right there.
20:23It's right there next to the gear lever.
20:25That entire gap fills with sand.
20:29Oh, no.
20:30Now that can mean you've got little control.
20:33That's really dangerous.
20:35It is really dangerous.
20:35We hose all this out.
20:38We then lubricate it.
20:40And we have to do that pretty much every time we've driven it.
20:43To get a new quad, difficult when we're trying to keep the boats going as well.
20:47Well, again, in any fundraising attempts you're doing, surely that money is better spent.
20:52Yes.
20:52On a new boat.
20:53Yeah, exactly.
20:57Adam's definitely given me plenty to think about.
21:01They are absolutely fearless.
21:03Look at him jumping over the waves.
21:06Brilliant.
21:07I could not think of a better project to be involved with.
21:11This is what it's all about for me, getting involved with people that need my help.
21:15Love it.
21:30One of the biggest challenges when moving from Kent was relocating and rebuilding my workshop, and it's still very much
21:38a work in progress.
21:40Trying to turn an old dairy into a realistic, usable working workshop is not straightforward.
21:47I'm trying to work out.
21:49At the moment this is a solid wall.
21:53I think I need another roller shutter in this wall to get into that side, because it's sort of two
21:59buildings almost.
22:01What's there now?
22:01It's just a solid wall now that's got a massive crack in it.
22:04More doors?
22:05Yeah.
22:06More doors?
22:06Two roller shutters?
22:07With a pedestrian door in it?
22:08Like at a castle?
22:10No.
22:10It's not a castle.
22:11No.
22:12And a side door?
22:14Yeah, side door here somewhere.
22:15To enter the garden.
22:16Yeah, exactly.
22:17Perfect.
22:18Good.
22:20See, I'm helpful.
22:21Very helpful.
22:23Daunting and ambitious, I will admit, and a huge amount of work.
22:27But if it ends up looking something like this, I will be very, very pleased.
22:35But while I'm trying to get that dream finished, I have managed to get something a little more basic in
22:41place,
22:41which is about to take delivery of that misfiring quad bike.
22:45Hello?
22:46How you doing?
22:47All right.
22:48Thank you so much for picking it up.
22:49That's all right.
22:50The beast.
22:51Yeah.
22:52Although the first challenge is getting it inside.
22:55Shall we get it off?
22:56Yes, absolutely.
22:57You can do the honours.
22:58I hope brakes work.
23:00I'm sure you'll be fine.
23:02Yeah?
23:02You'll be fine.
23:08Perfect.
23:09Left hand down a tiny bit.
23:11You got it.
23:13Hey, we're off.
23:14You're off.
23:15Perfect.
23:20It does sound rough.
23:23I don't know.
23:29You got use for all this sand.
23:31We sweep it up.
23:31Yeah, I'm going to be sweeping the workshop up, aren't I?
23:34Make our own beach in here.
23:36We're planning on giving the quad a full service, and not just under the hood.
23:43The first thing we're both doing is taking off all the body panels.
23:46That's basically going to make them a lot easier to paint and we'll be able to do a much nicer
23:50job.
23:51And it's also giving us access to everything inside here, all the suspension, the actual frame, the chassis, the engine,
23:58all the bits that we need to get to are all underneath these plastic sort of covers.
24:03We want to give the quad some much needed protection from the elements.
24:08So, the aluminium sheet...
24:10Right, ready?
24:11Yeah.
24:11Sure?
24:12Yeah.
24:16That works really nicely.
24:18...is going to provide some underbody armour.
24:21You know what?
24:22The biggest problem this will solve...
24:23Yeah.
24:24Yes, it will stop a bit of sand going on the chain.
24:26Yeah.
24:26Which is a bonus, really, because another big issue was that sand build-up by the gear selector.
24:33Yeah, right.
24:33The four is reverse and the throttle connection is in there as well.
24:37Yeah, I think it'd be nice.
24:38It'll keep...
24:38I mean, it should just keep most of the sand away from the chain and away from the gearbox and
24:42the sprocket, definitely.
24:44Whilst Sam is working on the sand shield, I just want to quickly try and strip this black paint off,
24:49get it back to the original green, so I can try and give it a nice new coat of paint.
24:59APPLAUSE
25:01This is the club logo.
25:03Oh, yeah.
25:03On the side.
25:04I'm obviously having to remove it because we're repainting it.
25:07So that is obviously the blue that we need.
25:10OK, those are the two colors.
25:11I like the light blue, dark blue, bit of yellow.
25:14It's quite nice.
25:15Yeah.
25:15Yeah.
25:16With the belly plate attached, the gearbox is now better protected from the sand.
25:21And we've got another plan to keep the quad running smoothly.
25:26That's a thick old chain, isn't it?
25:28Yeah.
25:29Yeah, yeah.
25:30So every side plate's got a pair of O-rings.
25:32Wow.
25:33And then they're pressure filled with grease inside.
25:36The plate's really strong.
25:38Yeah, also the bearings are harder and the pin material's harder than normal.
25:43Genius.
25:43You know, they're the sort of best of best.
25:45That is a monster.
25:46Yeah.
25:46Yeah, but it's nice.
25:47It should basically be happy running dry in the sand.
25:54That's good.
25:55Chain fits round the front.
25:57Nice, plenty of clearance.
25:59Which means the club can spend more time training and less time on bike maintenance.
26:06It just shows, doesn't it?
26:07Like, a bit of love and care.
26:10Yeah.
26:10A bit of bodywork.
26:11It's going to completely transform this.
26:13Hopefully what we're doing will be a bit of a lifesaver.
26:15Yeah.
26:15Oh, very good.
26:16We just need the hat.
26:37We're off to church in one of Sam's classic cars.
26:41And it's quite the arrival.
26:43Love it.
26:44That's it.
26:46There's a way to get out.
26:48One leg out.
26:48And then all of you out.
26:49And then the other.
26:50There you go.
26:51But despite the fancy carriage, we're not getting married in the morning.
26:56Turning up in style.
26:57Yeah.
26:57That's it.
26:58I like it.
26:58But I do hope after our visit, those bells are going to chime.
27:03Good morning.
27:03Good morning.
27:04Nice to see you again.
27:05Hi.
27:06You okay?
27:06Good to see you.
27:07Good to see you both.
27:09Sam's got his contact, Mel, to create some new rope work for us.
27:13We can't think of a better person to help, as he's a local yacht rigger who spent a lifetime
27:18rigging sailing yachts and splicing ropes for boatyards across Cornwall.
27:22We're confident his rope will keep those bells swinging for another hundred years,
27:28if our contraption works, and we can make it up the stairs.
27:32Halfway there.
27:33Wow.
27:35Did I forget?
27:36I know.
27:37It's amazing, isn't it?
27:39God, that's tighter than I remember.
27:40Well, I think when you're carrying something, it suddenly gets a lot worse.
27:45Ah, here we are.
27:46Hey!
27:47The bells.
27:50Our new hook and bracket system will lift and then hold the bells securely in place.
27:59Mind your head, Tom.
28:01Yeah.
28:04Allowing Mel to safely replace the rope.
28:07We calculated the heaviest of these bells weighs 74 kilos.
28:12Okay, that hook is on.
28:14Let's hope we got our sums right.
28:16Happy?
28:16Yeah.
28:17Shall we lift together?
28:21Yeah, it's looking good, hey?
28:22Is your sign all right, Tom?
28:24I don't know.
28:24Something's happening.
28:25Yeah.
28:26I think it's happening.
28:27Yeah.
28:27I think it's working.
28:28Yeah.
28:30Yeah, the little stroke's going, isn't it?
28:32Yeah.
28:35This is great.
28:36This is the first time we've seen actually two bells clamped to our jig.
28:41Are you happy?
28:42It's a relief.
28:43Is that how you're feeling?
28:44It's working.
28:45And with this simple piece of angle iron and a threaded rod, it's actually lifting the
28:50bells perfectly well.
28:52So now all of the weight is off of the ropes that are holding them in position.
28:56So they can be replaced for nice new ones.
29:00So we can guarantee that they're going to be held in place nicely.
29:05OK, so I'm going to pass the lanyard through, which we've semi-prepared.
29:15Mel's making an eye splice, created by unravelling the strands and interweaving them into the main body.
29:22Great for creating strong and smooth loops.
29:26To get a good splice, you've always got to get the first three tucks in correctly.
29:32We're working with a very short piece of rope.
29:35Yeah.
29:35So what we've done, we've created a pre-measured eye, which we can then slip the thimble in.
29:43Yeah, nice.
29:44But because we've only got one tuck, we can tighten that down.
29:49Yeah.
29:53We now then start to move down the rope.
29:58This is the clever bit.
29:59We've got the bitter end.
30:02So the end of that bit of rope, that's called the bitter end.
30:05The end of a rope is called the bitter end.
30:06That's where that expression comes from.
30:08Yeah.
30:09I love learning about these nautical phrases.
30:12The bitter end refers to the part of the rope that's tied to a post on the ship's deck called
30:17the bit.
30:18It's the last remaining piece of rope that can be let out.
30:22Hence, it's the bitter end.
30:25Are you confident this will be strong enough?
30:27The reason we splice a rope is it retains far more of its strength.
30:33If we were to put a knot in a rope, it reduces it by 50%.
30:38Of the strength of the rope?
30:40Of the strength of the rope.
30:41And if you were to pull test a piece of rope with a knot in it, it will fail at
30:47the knot.
30:47It will cut itself through.
30:50It will literally bang off.
30:57After a little more lifting and splicing, it's a job well done.
31:03I quite like the fact that it looks almost like we've never been there.
31:08Yeah, yeah.
31:09As it should be.
31:10All the dirty handprints on the rope.
31:11No, but just the spliced rope.
31:13Everything is as it...
31:14Whenever these were last done, everything there looks exactly like what it did.
31:19Yeah, thank you though.
31:20In all honesty, thank you so much for hanging with us and getting it all done.
31:23You're welcome.
31:36Back at the house, the teams returned and got the drill working again, in search of water for the pond.
31:42And we're still hoping for some divine intervention.
31:47It can be a bit of a lottery drilling water pool holes.
31:50But just as we're about to give up...
31:53Whoa!
31:56Oh my God!
31:59That's amazing.
32:00It's so crazy.
32:04That's actually insane.
32:06Well, I was going to say that's a lot of water, but then we need a lot of water.
32:10Oh my gosh.
32:14Now we've finally struck lucky.
32:17The next stage is to flush the new well to remove any debris and sediment to prevent blockages and ensure
32:24clean and safe water.
32:27Down to 80 metres now, final depth.
32:29Just flushing the borehole now for the next couple of hours.
32:33Hopefully it should be around 15,000 litres a day, should be the juice.
32:37And after that, we just need to install a pump to bring the water to the surface.
32:42And our dream of a new pond can start taking shape.
32:53Back at the workshop, I'm waiting on Sam to return with the newly painted body panels for the quad bike.
33:00The Surf Lifesaving Club needs it back on the beach.
33:03But before it can return to service, I've noticed a crack in the chassis.
33:09That's happened over time.
33:11There's just fatigue, you know, just through use.
33:13I mean, it's on the main chassis hoop actually, holding the whole front to the back.
33:20The worst thing that would happen is we leave the crack, goes back to the beach, goes back in use,
33:26and then this whole side panel could snap off.
33:30Which is the last thing we want to happen.
33:33After a quick spot of welding, perfect.
33:38That should hold up perfectly fine.
33:42I'll paint that black so it doesn't go rusty, because that's all bare metal now.
33:45Yeah, we're looking good.
33:47Job well done.
33:48Now, we just need to put it all back together again.
33:52Ah, they're here.
33:54Do you like shiny?
33:55Not usually, but in this situation, yes.
34:00Brilliant.
34:01That's shiny, isn't it?
34:02Brilliant.
34:02Oh, wow.
34:03Yeah?
34:04Yeah.
34:05Perfect.
34:06Oh, look at that.
34:09That blue matches the club's branding.
34:11So, with all our changes, not only will the bike perform better, it will look the part two.
34:17It's very unusual for me to be working on a vehicle that's just been freshly painted.
34:22It doesn't usually happen.
34:23No.
34:24Quite a stressful position for me.
34:27It's not exactly a concourse-restored, you know, Ferrari or Bentley or Rolls-Royce, is it?
34:33No.
34:33But I still don't want to be the one to scratch it.
34:36Someone's got to.
34:37Someone has to.
34:38Someone's got to be the first person, man.
34:40I don't want it to be me.
34:44Don't think that's going to be on their minds when they're at the club and it's on the beach.
34:48Somebody's needing their life saved and they're racing down the beach.
34:51Yeah.
34:53I think scratching the paint might be fairly low down on their priority list.
34:56I reckon.
34:57As low down their priority list as painting it was.
34:59Yeah.
35:01Looks like we managed to finish it off without leaving a mark.
35:05It just needs one final touch.
35:14I can't wait to see the quad back on the beach where it belongs.
35:18And I'm not the only one.
35:20The whole team is out in force to welcome it home.
35:25Have you missed it?
35:26We have missed it.
35:27We have missed it.
35:28We've had to do a little bit of borrowing of other people's vehicles.
35:31I've used my car to get down there.
35:33Oh, no.
35:33I know.
35:35Okay.
35:35Not ideal.
35:36We've pulled it down a couple of times.
35:39Which is what you had to do, I think, before the quad, isn't it?
35:41Yeah.
35:41Pulling it up is always a bigger issue.
35:44Today's a big day for getting back and it's an ideal weekend because the weather's going to be like this.
35:48Look at it.
35:48Yeah.
35:48It's going to be busy here this weekend.
35:50It's going to be busy here this weekend.
35:51Yeah.
35:51So we'll be getting in boats a lot this weekend.
35:53Good.
35:53Yeah.
35:53Now I need to manage expectations.
35:55Now I know that the noise of the exhaust is one thing.
35:58Yeah.
35:59Please don't expect it to be that much quieter.
36:01That engine is just a loud engine.
36:03So.
36:04Yeah.
36:04Okay.
36:05Yeah.
36:05Everyone's used to it.
36:06Exactly.
36:07Okay.
36:07Everyone's used to it around here.
36:08So that's absolutely fine.
36:13Well, it's the moment of truth.
36:15Time for inspection.
36:17And I'm hoping it looks and performs better than it sounds.
36:25Here he comes.
36:26I can hear it.
36:27Yeah.
36:27I know.
36:28I can hear it.
36:34What a difference.
36:36Look at that.
36:37Look at that.
36:42What a difference.
36:44So what have you done then?
36:45Could you take me through it?
36:45Well, yeah.
36:46Absolutely.
36:46Come around this side.
36:48Have you ducked down?
36:51Oh, look at that.
36:52So it's got an aluminium underbelly.
36:54Bash plate.
36:54Bash plate almost.
36:55Right.
36:55Okay.
36:56It should stop a lot of sand building up.
36:58Yeah.
36:59Getting up into that sort of throttle linkage.
37:01And is that aluminium?
37:02Oh, yeah.
37:03Right.
37:04Brilliant.
37:05It won't go rusty.
37:06Absolutely brilliant.
37:07Come around the other side.
37:13You see the chain?
37:14Yeah.
37:15So it's got an O-ring chain in it.
37:17So it's sealed for life.
37:18There's little O-ring seals on every single link.
37:21And you don't have to put any oil on it.
37:23So just put like a PTFE or silicon dry lube on it.
37:26Yeah.
37:27And then you won't have sand sticking to it all the time.
37:29Oh, fantastic.
37:29And also it's a really heavy chain, sort of 200 brake horsepower
37:32super bike chain.
37:34Wow.
37:34So it should be okay on this.
37:37It should last you.
37:38That's amazing.
37:39Yeah.
37:40I mean...
37:40Yes, the frame's...
37:41Have you got a little bit of welding?
37:42Yes, the frame's not cracked anymore.
37:43This whole side was about to come off.
37:45So, yeah, that is now firmly back in place.
37:48Fantastic.
37:49Absolutely fantastic.
37:51Are you happy?
37:52Really happy.
37:53Good.
37:53Really, really happy.
37:55Thank you so much.
37:56Okay.
37:56Well, I'm looking forward to seeing it back in use.
38:02When I moved to Cornwall, the plan was to use my skills to help me become part of my new
38:07community.
38:08I'm not sure I can think of a more Cornish scene than this.
38:11And let's hope that quad keeps this club moving for a few more years to come.
38:36We're heading back to the village of Pendine, and this time we've decided to take the more scenic route.
38:43Now, Sam's getting faster, the higher you're getting.
38:45Is this...
38:46Me?
38:46Yeah.
38:47You're running more efficient in the thin air.
38:49Yeah.
38:50That's it.
38:50And while this way may be harder on the knees, it's definitely kinder on the eyes.
38:56Oh, dear.
38:57Wow.
38:59Nice church.
39:00Oh, my goodness.
39:01We're higher than the church.
39:03Yeah.
39:05Oh, look at that.
39:07Isn't that incredible?
39:09Beautiful.
39:10And there's keyboard mine.
39:12When Givor reopened the deepest shafts at the turn of the century, the mine expanded so fast that the congregation
39:19of the church quadrupled.
39:21They had to extend the church and they put the bells in.
39:24Right.
39:25It's all down to that mine.
39:26In fact, this whole village only really grew and came about because of that mine.
39:31Because the people that worked there.
39:32Yeah.
39:33Everyone worked there.
39:35Givor mine officially closed in 1990, hitting the local community hard.
39:41But the mine now runs as a living museum, helping bring visitors back to this beautiful part of the world.
39:48Oh.
39:49Sit down.
39:50Enjoy the view.
39:51It only looks like one.
39:53Across and past.
39:53No, no, there's two.
39:54There's one for you.
39:55Come on.
39:56Nice.
39:59Just the right thing, isn't it?
40:02And from our perfect listening spot, it's nice to hear that we've played a small part in helping the community
40:12too.
40:13Peace of mind now, knowing that those bells are hanging up there.
40:16I know.
40:16Safe.
40:17Yeah.
40:21And they sounded really good.
40:23Yeah, really great.
40:23I just hope the neighbours agree.
40:31Perfect.
40:32This is beautiful, isn't it?
40:33Really nice.
40:34We are lucky.
40:35Very.
40:38It's been a day, isn't it?
40:40It's been a funny old week.
40:49I really feel I'm beginning to immerse myself into Cornish culture.
40:56But back home, we still have a lot to do.
41:01With the house, pond, the garden.
41:05And this is just endive.
41:07I did plant loads of lettuce and radish, but got completely eaten by slugs.
41:12I mean, in terms of five-year plan, ten-year plan, how long it's going to take, I would love
41:18to say five years.
41:20But it's not going to be five years.
41:22Wendy!
41:23Stop it.
41:25I don't know.
41:28I don't know.
41:30I would...
41:31There's obviously the workshop is the number one priority.
41:33The garden, we both just love gardening and we know obviously that things take so long to grow.
41:38That's why we wanted to kind of get started on that first,
41:40because we can be doing everything else whilst trees are growing and whilst things are settling in.
41:45But I'm less patient when it comes to my workshop.
41:49I can't wait to turn my drawings and designs into reality.
41:54Doing what I need to do to try and get it done.
41:57It's getting stuck in.
41:58His first workshop that he got in Hackney was just an empty, derelict kind of building on the water.
42:07And he put up walls in there, bought in water, bought in power, did everything.
42:13So this is kind of a bit like that just on a bigger scale.
42:16I'm knackered.
42:18Manual labour of physically doing this is one thing, but on top of all of this, I've got constant phone
42:24calls with ordering soil, ordering materials, sand and cement and all this stuff that needs to line up at the
42:32right time.
42:34There is a lot to think about. My mind is spinning and I'm not really one for spreadsheets and writing
42:41things down.
42:42So unfortunately, it's all spinning around in my head, which is probably not the most professional way of doing it,
42:47but it's all I can do.
42:50I'm doing the best I can.
42:52It's the start of a long journey, but at least we started.
42:55And the work continues next time when the excavation begins.
43:01Oh, no, there's the first rock.
43:03And me and Sam.
43:04Here we go. Here goes nothing.
43:07Hit the track.
43:09Yeah, there you go.
43:10That's it!
43:12Yes! Yes!
43:14Fuck!
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