With his alarm waking him at 5am daily, Bombala resident and project manager Matthew Bennett travels over an hour down the mountain in his Ford ranger bound for the Old Bega Hospital; a heritage-listed building he is putting his heart and soul in to help restore and preserve.
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00:00 Now it seems that the catheter is going up.
00:05 I'll go and grab the rope just to stabilise it a little bit.
00:10 And up she goes.
00:15 This time the boys are going to be putting it on the actual scaffolding.
00:20 They've rigged up a few things up there that you can sit on.
00:25 And, um, as you can see, it's high.
00:35 It's probably 5 metres, 6 metres.
00:39 That crane can go up.
00:42 I don't know.
00:49 I don't know if you've got to grab the whole rope.
00:55 I hope you're all enjoying this.
01:10 Anyway, it's Monday morning.
01:13 About morning tea time. And we're just about done with lifting all this up.
01:19 See ya.
01:22 And once again, they've come down here to tie it on.
01:25 This is just a pack of, um, you know, 90 by 45.
01:31 That they put up there as a, um, you know, batten and so forth.
01:37 So I'm then going to throw a slinger.
01:42 And the valley boards are in there too, as you can see.
01:46 They've rigged it up.
01:51 Hi everybody. Um, today's the day that the crane's here.
01:55 Still got the scaffolding guys though, just putting up a bit of scaffold here for me.
02:00 And I'll swing it around a little bit and you'll see that's the crane wires and there's the crane up there.
02:07 There's Roger in the crane and Isaac and other guys swinging about.
02:13 It's, um, waiting for the pipe tying down.
02:18 But, um, there's a horn, not sure why.
02:26 The dogman's down there, the yellow jumper.
02:30 And Isaac up there with the pink jumper, or orange jumper.
02:36 And the bumblebee.
02:38 Boys are coming down.
02:41 And, um, there's the crane.
02:44 And there's the batten.
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