Parked up at 07.45 this morning to wait for Russ ... ... couple of pix from where I was sat ... all that timber has come in since Thursday ... we were parked there last week ..
sky was looking seriously black and blowing a hooley when I left the house ... hadn't improved twenty minutes later
five past eight I'm thinking where the hell is he? he's so rarely late ... five minutes later he's on the phone .. still in Ross ... was rigged and ready to lift boat at 06.00 .. lorry didn't show for another hour+
... was now following a 4m wide boat down a 3m wide lane, to off it a couple of miles away -- progress was slow .. he'd call me when he was leaving .... so got me head down ..
rudely awoken at half nine by some tw*t blowing his air horns as he went past
.. followed 2 min.s later by Russ's call to say he was leaving .... eventually showed at 10.20 ... 449 closed after a truck demolished a car so he had to get creative with his route
chucked me gear in the cab and we swung round to where we had to be ... after a few wrong turns in the yard .. round timber everywhere and routes that were open last week are now no go
got ourselves back where we were Thursday and lifted the top flywheel onto the carriage/saw frame, then picked the lower flywheel and drive pulley into the building and sat it on a seeerious pallet, upright, picked the frame and upper flywheel into the building and hung it over the lower wheel, to mount that.
then lifted the whole shibang back into place ...... to find the the lower flywheel was going to strike the concrete founds as it swung down into position on its mounts
... think I said before .. there were two sets of drawings, with two different sets of dimensions ... 110mm difference .. they chose the wrong ones
so picked it back up a couple of feet ..... and had some grub, a snooze, bit of a stroll about, etc., for a couple of hours
while they set about the concrete, with saws, breakers, hammers, chisels, etc. and removed about 100mm x 400 x 500 pocket to clear the bottom driven flywheel
some pix below of the new line
eventually got enough out and tidy enough for Antonio's satisfaction to let the saw down into its final position
then we had to get all the guarding onto it and in place, which were all weird shapes, took a bit of slinging to get 'em to hang right and then get into place around this weapon. sadly didn't get any pix of 'em on as I was just a bit busy .... did though get some more of the line, stood on top of the top blade/flywheel cover/guard, on top of the beast .....
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get a little GoPro, dead easy to use and you can just plonk it on a tripod and do some timelapses and stuff.
