Thursday 12 September 2019

Training and inspections

Thursday 12 September 

Another couple of diversions for the team, Alastair has been busy all this week looking after the engineers doing the detailed structural inspections with Culverts 42A, 44A and 45A all featuring on the list. Today Dave, Nigel, Michael and Andrew attended a course to gain the LANTRA brushcutter qualification. Poor old Culvert 11A at Stanton has had to take a back seat. 

Culvert 44A, dry suit inspection
(Photo: Alastair) 
Culvert 45A, Drain camera in action
(Photo: Alastair) 
Culvert 45A - "Anybody in?"
(Photo: Alastair) 
Camera operators at a safe distance
(Photo: Alastair) 

The brushcutter training went well with a 100% pass rate, the sun even made an appearance for the outside sessions. 

Safety checks and routine maintenance training 


For the practical we headed round to Defford Straight, to clear the area around the up side cess headwall.  


Defford Straight up side cess headwall 
Andrew cutting a swath 
Nigel disappears down the ditch 
Michael under the trees 
Dave tackles around one of the tree stumps 

With the team doing the training it provided an opportunity for a bit more maintenance. The new camera unit for the drain cam was fitted, we'll be able to get CCTV images inside the pipes again. 

New camera module fitted 

Back to Stanton to finish the gully drain on Saturday, the 'holiday' is over. 



2 comments:

  1. Thats one hell of a tree root growing out of the headwall, how will you deal with it ?

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  2. Thats one hell of a tree root growing out of the headwall, how will you deal with it ?

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