The Resurrection of the Leaning Shed

Dan and Richard arrived around ten am. I met Dan brewing coffee in the garden on his camping stove at the back of his van, and after a few minutes Richard pitches up, his van towing a trailer with hefty bits of handsome industrial cast ironwork in it. The cast iron articles were heavy duty ratchet jacks which can apparently bear a weight of fifteen tons or more.
A tactical talk ensued as to how and where to strategically place the jacks, interspersed with a lot of measurements taken with a spirit level to ascertain exactly how much each segment of the shed would need to move in order to stand more or less vertical. Essentially, the gutter on the right hand side at this end needed to move about six inches away from the hedge. More movement was needed in the middle of the shed where it had slipped further towards the hedge. (I sense some readers may have nodded off by this point, but never mind!)
So there was a process of gentle cranking of the jacks, with occasional sharp and somewhat alarming cracking reports as the woodwork shifted and realigned itself.
It took some time as new measurements were taken, jacks slipped out of position in the mud and had to be repositioned and the process continued. But after a couple of hours, with a short coffee break in the middle, the structure was pretty close to vertical again. With the jacks left in place, Dan and Richard put a series of wooden braces into the interior walls to ensure that the structure is more rigid and (we hope!) unlikely to tip sideways again.
In the picture above, the position of the spirit level of marking the vertical plane which gives some idea of how far the shed has to move to the right.