Wednesday 7/26/17 Emuse
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:37 pmWell no rain today to spoil the activities going on. Sunny with cloudy periods and temperatures upper 70's for the most part. The most interesting thing going on today was the placing of the air tank into the sand house. The Friends have been working most of the summer sessions repairing the sand house getting it ready to provide sand to the locomotives on a daily basis. Next step, which should happen tomorrow is raising the storage tank for the sand onto the tower from which gravity will allow locomotive crews to fill the sand dome. Keep in mind that this air tank weighs around 800 lbs.
- Barry Morris, part of the crew working on the sand house, installs the chains to support the come-along that will be used to raise the tank
- Using a bucket loader with folk attachments and a sling, then get to moving the tank toward the board that will be used to roll it to the sand house
- The crew has almost gotten the tank to the board
- The crew now man handles the tank along the boards
- They now have the tank starting to tip over into the pit where it will reside
- The crew has moved the tank far enough to attach the come-along directly to the top of the tank
- Lowering is begining
- Before the tank is lowered the final few inches, a plumb bob was lowered through the hole in the roof where the air pipe needs to go to ensure alignment