The rig and location at night is the above picture. We have finished the 32" pass, and now are preparing to finish up the 36". This should take approximately 3 to 4 12 hour shifts. After that there will be 3 remaining passes.
We believe they will all go a bit better than the previous one, because they will not be cutting as much area. But that is yet to be seen.
These are two of the reamers the smaller one on the ground is the 26" and the other is a 48". After seeing these one may understand the difficulty in getting them across.
This is a picture of the 36" after we attempted to push it in from the entry side. It made it about 600'. The picture does not do it justice. It was packed with clay. Therefore the cutting surface was not exposed. It also had numerous rocks lodged in it some as big as 8" round. It had to be removed and repaired. We changed it to a 32" and successfully pulled it across.
This is a picture of where I spend most of my 12 hours. It is a very monotonous job. I sit and watch pipe go round and round and gauges go up and down. It is a great job on days that it is raining though other than that it is pretty boring.
Well that is about all the time I have for this post maybe the next one will have better news and will be further along in the completion of the job.
Until then Loving Life in Ecuador!
No comments:
Post a Comment