The assembly of the shovel has started out at the showgrounds. We are trying to get everything assembled that has to be done before we move the carbody onto the concrete slab. We had a good day on Saturday, as we started the assembly. Following are some pictures of the work on Saturday. Hopefully Louie or someone else got some better pictures than what I took with my phone.
Starting to get rigged up to lift the heavy pieces.
It's hard to see as the picture is dark, but the A-frame is being lifted into position along with some heavy links at the back of the carbody.
After we had the long link from the top of the A-frame back down to the back of the carbody in place, Wimpy went up in the man-basket and started to weld this together.
Just a shot of Wimpy welding up in the man-basket. He finally quit, due to the fact that the wind was blowing so hard that the man basket was moving in mid-air and he could not hold a steady bead with the welder. We will finish the weld at a later date.
Thanks to all who showed up to help, which included Louie, Jim B., Mel, Ryan, Phil, Klinger, Clayton and Wimpy.
Starting to get rigged up to lift the heavy pieces.
It's hard to see as the picture is dark, but the A-frame is being lifted into position along with some heavy links at the back of the carbody.
After we had the long link from the top of the A-frame back down to the back of the carbody in place, Wimpy went up in the man-basket and started to weld this together.
Just a shot of Wimpy welding up in the man-basket. He finally quit, due to the fact that the wind was blowing so hard that the man basket was moving in mid-air and he could not hold a steady bead with the welder. We will finish the weld at a later date.
Thanks to all who showed up to help, which included Louie, Jim B., Mel, Ryan, Phil, Klinger, Clayton and Wimpy.