Pictures Page - Winter 2009 Archive
Here are the photos we took for the first half of 2009.
Digging piles for Bridge No Six. Structure will be the tallest on the line.
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 01
Piles for Bridge No Five had to be put in place while the creek was dry. You can imagine how boggy i...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 01
Looking North into the bush. You can see the line for Bridge No Six. Amazingly we did not have to to...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 01
Winter Creek has acquired a proper hydraulic power hacksaw. Dating from the 1930's it fits with all ...
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Mr Sparkle-juice himself - back on the tools - installing the new power saw
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 01
Dr Livingstone? Nope - Steve deep in the bush with tape measure. Part of the advanced survey party f...
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View from Bridge No Six South toward Bridge Number one. Temporary foot-bridge is on the alignment, b...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 01
Feb 09. Final preparation of the big cutting on the bottom loop. This was dug 3 years ago through st...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 12
Feb 09. Chris forming the south approach to Bridge Six (Bridge to the left of photo)
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Uploaded: 2009 / 02 / 12
Feb 09. Steve standing beside the centre line of piles for Bridge Six. This one will be a steel deck...
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Easter: Working on Bridge 6: Steve begins cutting piles to length
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Uploaded: 2009 / 04 / 13
Easter: Cutting piles - Bridge number 1 is visible in the background
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Uploaded: 2009 / 04 / 13
Easter: A completed bent. Cap Beams will be cut to length once the deck is on as the extra width is ...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 04 / 13
Easter: Chris using the digger to move the 7m, 1/4 tonne beams one at a time from the shed out to th...
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Easter: We discovered 7.25 inch trucks fit the flanges of an 8 inch beam we had been given. Stage on...
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Easter: Here is one of the beams being loaded onto the trucks
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Easter: Stage two saw one of the big beams launched across the centre span almost to balance point d...
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Easter: The lower and lighter beam was then winched across the gap, with the rear end being prevente...
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Easter: The lighter beam is nearly across the gap!
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Easter: Steve took this shot as Chris gets into position to receive the first beam across. Peter and...
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Easter: Here you can see the railway trucks holding the end of the bottom beam down as its other end...
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Easter: Once the light beam was across - it was easy to roll the big beams across on railway trucks ...
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Easter: Its going to be great to steam through the bush 6m above the creek!
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March: Bill fitting the sway braces to one of the girders for the centre span of Bridge 6
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March: These beams weigh 1/4 ton each and are 7m long
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Peter has combined bits and pieces to create this impressive compressor and promptly declared it was...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 04 / 13
April - A Wednesday night at Steve's place to move equipment about. Darryl and Steve discuss what go...
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Uploaded: 2009 / 04 / 13