A day at the Rocks By Rail Museum. However a different day from my normal mowing. Having had the drag line cable snap on me last week as Rob taught me how to operate it I was helping Rob replace the cable. By the time I got to the Museum Rob had the old cable out. It was that rusty it was beyond sensible saving so the new cable in stock was wheel barrowed to the dragline.
Now a spool of cable weighs a lot and is not the easiest thing to manipulate so we both knew our backs were in for some stress! However we took the opportunity of the boom being down to do a long required grease gun job on the various greasing points.
This is the pully at the end of the boom where the broken cable runs over.
Rob got hold of a large can of grease with a grease gun and we soon had grease flowing into probably dry surfaces.
To make life easier next time Rob used some Red paint to mark the grease nipples.
Greasing done it was time to wind the new cable onto the winding drum which is where I had to do the guiding whilst Rob operated the drum. First though we had to feed the cable along the boom.
One of those pieces of brilliance was that Rob had brought along a piece of heating pipe insulation through which the cable could run saving any snagging on my gloves! Brilliant!
So with cable on and then reconnected to the bucket Rob started the machine up....
and all was well!!!!!!!
Flushed with success and in a rush to avoid the start of Storm Agnes we headed back to the restoration shed to put the tools away and I was surprised to see more progress on Harriot the JCB!
Bet there are some greasing points that need greasing on that!
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