(CoreyG, MitchR, ChrisS, RandyT, JimW)
This week's wind fence work continues. With a couple of issues that continued from last week and were addressed:
- Soft Sand-- This has been an issue because it is fairly easy to get aerial lift wheels stuck in the sand. Because of this, and since the big rental aerial lift was in position near the 1st panel (or "southernmost panel"), it was decided to do this panel's rework in one shot (vs the usual procedure of doing a step for all panel positions, and then moving to next steps for all positions, and so on)
- Bee Hive--Last Thursday, a beehive swarmed the wooden spool for the large wire. A beekeeper was phoned in to help rehome this hive. A beehive box was placed near the spool and today, this box was moved so the spool could be reinstalled in the trailer for use.
The first panel is mostly complete (on Tues) with one vertical cable remaining to be installed. Old panels had thinner cables removed and are folded up for future availability and storage.
A water tank was delivered to EX (Tues) to allow daily soaks of the sand to help improve travel.
Today (Wed) was a windy day with sustained winds of around 15mph, so this morning mostly focused on non-at-height work. The thick cables were cut for the remaining 3-panel locations