April 19, 2015 update. The footings of the crane are more hidden now, thanks to Don restoring a soil burm in front of it, which should turn nicely green once it’s planted.
January 24,2015.
News about the crane on the Island. It has arrived in position. This is not the final appearance, so if you are my neighbor, don’t freak out. Coming next is soil berm and camouflage fence, to hide most of it, and painting it from yellow to black with dark green. The boom ordinarily won’t be extended out over the ocean. I think it will become almost invisible when the camouflaging is finished.
It’s had the starter replaced 3 times, lots of new wiring, new resistors and capacitors added to the engine, and finally now the engine starts easily and runs smoothly, and everything about crane-lifting works! We’ll be using it next week.
The above picture is at very low tide, and I’m told the lifting hook is still able to extend to reach the edge of the water! So this is good news that the crane can be used to unload from my boat, any time regardless of tide.
Pictures below, are from the stage when a concrete support pad was being built, with support for the crane-feet going down to bedrock. Can you imagine the amount of work to make that support pad. I am very impressed, thanks Don.
I’m posting this picture above, with its muddy appearance, as a reminder; because in the future once this area is landscaped and vegetated, it will look amazing instead of ugly.
Here are pictures of using pulleys and cable, to move the crane uphill, before it was aligned and then moved down to position at the shoreline. Wow. What a lot of planning and effort to set up all that.
Prior to making the concrete pad, here was the area being flattened and prepared.
January 27,2015 update. Here’s pictures of some heavy items arriving by crane.
And here is the view with the boom turned in the opposite direction.
February 19, 2015 update. I learned that when the boom of the crane is fully extended, it can only lift around 1000 lbs, so the deliveries of concrete are being split into 2-half pallets instead of 1 full pallet. The Crane lifts the half pallets easily.
