Ives Faye will get some well deserved publicity from the Dutch EO-television broadcast company for his garden project in Senegal, where the new well is finished, offering plenty water at 40 meter depth. He phoned me only a few days ago that he would come today to our workshop together with a television crew.
Short notice for me. I could not prepare the well mockup, the full scale model to give people in Keur Mousse in Senegal an idea what we expect to build.
But I just finished in time a new way to make the plastic rope bearing for the pulley wheel axle (see picture). It asks for a lengthwise cut in the end of the frame rod. I expect a blacksmith can get it done when the ends of the frame are made red hot in his furnace. With this setup it is much easier to wind the rope cross wise from the frame over the axle buts to form the bearing. It looks neat and effective.

Ives and his wife told the television people the story of the why and how of their Keur Mousse project. I had liked to focus attention to the pulley wheel, but Ives choose to put the rope pump forward. Together with Ives' and Els' their kids, I explained once again in front of the camera how the rope pump works. In just under ONE minute!