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The tools selected are the tip truck with crane — the excavator — and a range of smaller tools or jigs.

THE CONTAINER CITY IN PICTURES.

This page containes work in progress pictures, mostly using various tools.

The truck has been a gem, without it I would have been struggling. This truck was like my off sider, my helping hand as you see in the pictures.

Carrying, holding and placing.

I had this truck built to my specs.

The crane had to reach 6 meters and the load was 1 ton next to the truck. (becomes 300kg at 6m)

Lifting the G4 mobile aerial onto the roof and attach.
This white PVC pipe carries 6 cables plus a steel wire. It was very heavy to tension without reducing the weight like this.
These container doors weigh at least 50kg and I can't lift them. They need to stay in the hole, while I weld it into place.
I replaced the old 3m gate with a 4m gate. But to hang it by yourself is hard. The truck was very patient, while I bolted it to the post. I used a balancing spreader to control it.
Another tough installation. But this pre-constructed section could be placed very acurately. I struggle with one 2.4 m sleeper, this section was 4 pieces.

The Truck’s Tray.

I wanted to carrry 3 ton loads, and all the sides to go down plus a 3m plus width inside.

This is a tip truck and it has carried and placed lots of gravel. When this red clay gets wet, it sticks to everything. After each step you are a cm taller.
In order to put containers side by side we cut a second road and carted the excess away.
This is the strip where the extra containers was coming. I think I carted and dumped about 150 x 3 ton truck loads.
This one of the large 10,000 Ltr tanks. I picked it up from bathurst and now I go down the hill and place it.
Here is something else that had to be moved. Just a few feet sideways.

The Trucks long boom.

These examples show you how handy to extemded 6m boom was. There are 3 expanding + 2 manual sections.

Placing one of the 5000 L tanks at the lower tank farm. First lift and then tip.
Lifting this pipe into the hole, looks easy, but it required accurate balancing and placing.
Placing this generator under its roof was tricky. In order to get under the roof, I had to be further away with the truck.
This is s similar task, placing inverters and batteries on or close to their spot.
I picked this 8m, very heavy, steel beam from Bathurst on the truck's roof supports. Next direct from the truck to the cutting rollers through the door.

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Now the excavator.

This is only a 2 ton machine, but I can do a lot of work with it. It has 4 buckets, a tyne, and an auger. Plus I made a spreader for it.

The excavator is also a machine that can carry and place things.
This is another handy thing. The excavator can get to more places. Here lifting trees to cut chunks for firewood. Not for me, but for my Son.
Another excavator job is spreading and levelling, say gravel. First dump, than push it around and finally scrape it with the spreader.
Here I use the auger again. It is a 300mm cutter and these holes were 800mm deep.
When it comes to digging the big challege is removing large boulders. Some the machine cannot lift, but it can roll and push them.

More excavator.

The bulk of the work was for digging trenches.

The trenches for electrical conduits are mostly dug with the tyne. Keeps it nice and narrow.
This was an open surface water drain. Dug with the 200 mm bucket. The truck was next to the excavator, to take the soil.
Pulling out large rocks and moving them around takes time. But I am amazed about the size it can handle, bigger than this one.
Sometimes you can fill back the trench from the side with the blade. But often trees are in the way, so you sweep sideways with the bucket.
After getting all the soil back in, there comes the job of rolling the surface. Endless runs backwards and forwards. It looks nice when finished.

Other smaller tools I used.

This is not all of them, but just a pick of them. In addition to the standard hand tools and power tools, I also have a few special ones, but not shown here.

I used a vibrating compactor, mostly on the sand under the water tanks. I had a go with the gravel, around the caravan.
When you auger a post hole, you need concrete to set the post, hence the mixer and somtimes wheelbarrow.
There were some very large rock shelves, and the only solution was to splinter it off with a jack hammer.
This triton vice clamp is a magic device. If you need to cut sleepers, with the chainsaw, like a dream.
This is the plasma cutter on the roof for the whirley bird. One problem, the plasma cutter needs air and that setup is very hungry in power.

More aids. Jigs to do jobs.

Before I tackle a job, a lot of times I spend a day or so to make jigs or aids to make my task manageable.

I made myself a tool trolley. It save your back, when bending down to floor level. I used it regularly.
Putting up wall frames by yourself is a horror, so I made a clamp holder for the studs.
Here was another challenge, installing wall cabinets. I built this timber stand and pushed the cupboard onto it, (right height), so I could screw it to the wall.
I bought a cheap old trailer as a portable work bench. Just tow it where the work is. It has a small vice. This is where I cut framing rails.
Sometimes you have to cut a large sheet of melamine in half. How do you hold the saw and the off cut?

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