Yair . . .
On another thread I posed the probably pointless question as to how tank and dam construction (and earthwork in general) could be economically carried out in remote areas given that, with the demise of cable control, it is no longer common and normal to run blade, ripper and scoop (scraper) on crawler tractors.
The days of the itinerant dam sinker are long gone but once they were part of the fabric of out back Australia.
The plant consisted of the tractor equipped with angle blade towing the scoop, the ripper and a dog trailer for fuel and oil drums.
These outfits accompanied by a vehicle towing a caravan or camp gear roamed far and wide to the furthest reaches of the inland and on several occasions I have driven up to tanks literally in the middle of nowhere and you realise that some lonely soul had been there breathing dust and running dirt out along a wide wing on a watercourse.
And then you stumble across the campsite and find a set of what are probably D6 liners and some other bits and pieces . . . and there is only a set of wheel tracks to this place and its fifty miles to the station homestead and three hundred miles to town.
So in this day and age how would you dig a 5000 yard excavation and construct the diversion wings to fill it in that remote and lonely place?
Cheers.
On another thread I posed the probably pointless question as to how tank and dam construction (and earthwork in general) could be economically carried out in remote areas given that, with the demise of cable control, it is no longer common and normal to run blade, ripper and scoop (scraper) on crawler tractors.
The days of the itinerant dam sinker are long gone but once they were part of the fabric of out back Australia.
The plant consisted of the tractor equipped with angle blade towing the scoop, the ripper and a dog trailer for fuel and oil drums.
These outfits accompanied by a vehicle towing a caravan or camp gear roamed far and wide to the furthest reaches of the inland and on several occasions I have driven up to tanks literally in the middle of nowhere and you realise that some lonely soul had been there breathing dust and running dirt out along a wide wing on a watercourse.
And then you stumble across the campsite and find a set of what are probably D6 liners and some other bits and pieces . . . and there is only a set of wheel tracks to this place and its fifty miles to the station homestead and three hundred miles to town.
So in this day and age how would you dig a 5000 yard excavation and construct the diversion wings to fill it in that remote and lonely place?
Cheers.
Tanksinking
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