Moving a Digger

 On Saturday, I went to work with Eddie. He was transporting a digger to a farmer. I haven’t been in a truck for a while, so it made a nice change. It was a bit nerve wracking for me when the digger was being loaded. It was on the ramp with the tracks in the air, until it got to a point when it dropped down on to the deck of the truck. It must be a disconcerting feeling to the driver. Eddie was on the deck telling the driver which way to turn. There wasn't a lot of gap between the edge of the tracks and the ramps. Pretty much the same size I think.

Eddie's truck

This is the digger waiting to be loaded.

All aboard. Now it just has to be turned around.

Ready to go

Once the digger is loaded they turn the body of it around so the shovel is at the back. Then it is ready to be unloaded.

On Wednesday, Eddie went off to work expecting to be working at a roadwork site all day. No one at the site seemed to know what they were doing or what was happening, but after a while they cleared off some of the seal for about 100 metres. The other truck took the old seal away and Eddie spread his metal into the gap for them to smooth it out. Then he was told that was it for the day!. Josh wasn’t happy. The 2 trucks had been booked for a week. Eddie was home by lunch time. 

We have been living in the flat at the back of the main house since Monday and we will be here for the next 18 days. Louise went off to the USA on Monday morning. I spent quite a bit of the day bringing up bits and pieces. Eddie brought  the rest in the car when he got home in the evening. I keep finding things I need. The kitchen here isn’t very well equipped, so I am going back to the caravan most days to collect something else. The trouble is, it will all need to go back soon enough. I will start taking things back a few days before we finish.