DBA First Crusade project

Started by paulr, 04 August 2016, 09:58:03 PM

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paulr

I find doing something each day helps maintain progress and enthusiasm  ;) :)

I've been working from home for the last couple of weeks, since the earthquake, and this gives me back my commuting time, about 2 hours each day :)

The only down side is I have to make another time to read the forum ;D
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Techno

Quote from: paulr on 27 November 2016, 11:57:40 PM
I've been working from home for the last couple of weeks, since the earthquake, and this gives me back my commuting time, about 2 hours each day :)

A small (?) plus......Any idea when 'things will be back to normal'. Paul ?...Cant believe that happened a fortnight ago !

Cheers - Phil

paulr

Looks like we will be back in our building on Wednesday

Normal is probably a few months away, there are at least 3 buildings being demolished and probably over 30 that require repairs in the Wellington area. That is over 150km from the epicentre.

Kaikoura, the largeish town near the epicentre, has only one road partly open with the army trucking in supplies and one escorted convoy of civilian vehicles allowed out. Fuel is rationed, water is back on but needs to be boiled... Normal is a lot further away for them.
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paulr

One of the 'smaller' slips (landslides), note circled digger for scale, about 60km north of Kaikoura



Story here

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/86949154/digger-balances-on-top-of-slip-in-effort-to-repair-severed-road
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d_Guy

Golly! The guy in the digger is quoted as saying, "The photo really made it look worse than what it is, it doesn't look as extreme in person."
Nerves of steel I say.
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

paulr

As the old advert said, "That man deserves a DB"

A series of TV ads for Dominion Breweries beer featuring guys doing various brave, resourceful and useful things rewarded with a beer, adjudicated from the pub in heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvVbWWLGpc
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paulr

Selijuq Turkish foot touched up and washed :)

Selijuq Turkish mounted on the painting rods vacated by the pilgrims :)

Prepared the Selijuq Turkish bases and first side painted :)

A large bunch of Crusaders now based :) :) :)
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Holy funt! That's several thousand tons of rock.
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Techno

Oh, my life !  :o :o :o

I presume the chap in the digger has got to dislodge all the stuff from the top, to bring it all down.......Then go down and clear the road itself !
What an enormous clean up, for just one road.

Cheers - Phil

paulr

Once he is finished up top

  • abseilers will clear any large rocks with 'dynamite'
  • a helicopter will 'rinse' the slope of smaller rocks
  • a remote-controlled excavator will then cut into the slip

All this to open the road for six families, there are hundreds of slips like this.

Then there are the big ones blocking the main coast road




Note the main north south rail line on the coastal side of the road :(
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

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d_Guy

Thanks for the vid, Paul. I generally have to research 75% of the cultural references on this forum (and even then....)  :) :-bd
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

paulr

Only the Kiwis on the forum would have got that one ;)
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Leman

I didn't get the pie one at all.
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