A bucket, a spade and a very, very long rope 鈥� what more do you need to dig a piling hole?


Safety blunder

Thanks to Brian Gardiner for this image of some rather bold piling work taking place in Guatemala. "I spotted this pile being dug out in the central reservation of a busy avenida in Guatemala City," he says. Brian had some reservations himself about the lack of safety precautions.

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