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When we
last saw Norwich Park's dragline, it was looking a lot like this. A bench failure had the dragline nearly sitting on its boom.
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The plan was to bury two dragline buckets, which were then attached to a stabilising frame. Tension was then applied to the frame to pull the dragline back level, while the dirt was excavated out from underneath the dragline.
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Burying the two dragline buckets.
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Attachment of the stabilising frame.
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Excavation of the dirt underneath the tub.
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Remote-control dozers. Safe, but poor aircon.
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Upright!
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Repairs to the boom.
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Repairs to the house.
In all, an excellent performance from the BMA team to successfully right the dragline and get it back to work. Congratulations on a job well done.
3 comments:
Is that a remote controlled bulldozer in a few of the photos?
@Dave,
Yeah mate, that is an RC dozer, safest choice for something like this.
WesTrac CAT sell this system for their dozers.
Thanks for the educating pictures
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