Post B6YSzjX1mgJuAvGPom by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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 (DIR) Post #B6YSzhH0BIJRAdkaYq by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Right, can't delay any longer, I have to help a neighbour lower her wind turbine, and then somehow get it off the tower for a rebuild. It's about 20 years old and weighs (we aren't exactly sure) between 80 and 150kg. And it's on very rough ground so no idea how we're going to get it to her track. And I'm rather short on sleep. And it might be drizzling, and almost certainly midgie.Apart from that, all is good.How's your Friday?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzhe2nckCK6WzTc by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Here's the turbine on it's tower. An interesting quirk is that the stays are not symmetrical, so the gin pole opiates at a very alarming, but so far not catastrophic, angle
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzhrA0rEgymfSvA by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Not a bad work place though
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzi3ZGjA1bGTNGC by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       We finally got the turbine to its normal maintenance position using The Anti-Gravity Drun. (But look at the way to pole bends from the weight of the turbine) Now to take it apart and somehow get it to where it can be lifted onto a truck
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSziLICpL4UElWt6 by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Normally the pivot would be greased, as well as the pivot for the furling tail. And it's important to do this without 100kg of alternator hitting your tootsies
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSziXhShGP6iZRE8 by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Plan A looked as though it was working. We Used Gravity to assist removal of the alternator (ie, we pulled it off the pole and it dropped onto the heather) Then we rolled it onto a ladder and roped it on. The ground is very rough, sometimes with a metre or more ridges, so this seemed a good option.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzilWdIK3nb2TmC by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Eventually my body said "Naw, ye willnae," and we had to think of a plan B. To be honest I was surprised we managed to manhandle it to this point, as I was needing more rest than work. At this point, Mr HiLux growled "I'll be back" and we handed over heaving duties to him. A short while later, with a bit of manual redirection, it was near the garage. Job Done. I could now find a convenient corner and jibber for a while.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzj2Xc1vweN04Ia by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       But when I got home, herself said the local Dealer in Nasturtiums (sssh, you didn't hear it from me) had been around and left these beauties. As our own naturtium seeds have pretty much failed to launch, this is very welcome.So thanks @Dorell  @Jkp (no names, please)And I gave a neighbour a lift in to the village this morning who had some ideas about how to discourage Stanley the Stag whose unwanted visits we've been enduring.I'm knackered.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzjJCc5GFU2nNGi by justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
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       I think you deserve a well earned afternoon nap now after all that hard graft.CC: @Dorell@mastodon.scot @Jkp@mastodon.scot
       
 (DIR) Post #B6YSzjX1mgJuAvGPom by withaveeay@mastodon.scot
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       Anyway, the wind turbine will now go by truck to Dundonnell and then by a small open boat to the Scoraig peninsula. The only other way of getting it there would be via a 9 mile walk-in. THAT's not going to happen with that weight.There it'll be refurbished and should be good for another 20 years.But that means that those time honoured words "Re-assembly is the reverse of the above" come into play and we'll have to get the wretched thing back to the tower.Oh well, not today.