Travel, how far is too far?

[openspaceman]

43 minutes ago, Donnie said:

I’ve honestly worked all over and I can barely remember where and what we were doing on each job to be honest…

That's inexcusable at your age 🙂

 

Whitelaw Brae is halfway between Badlieu and the Fruid reservoir

[Donnie]

27 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

That's inexcusable at your age 🙂

 

Whitelaw Brae is halfway between Badlieu and the Fruid reservoir

Haha. I’ve done a lot in Fruid reservoir. Made a door in the tunnell that goes all the way underneath it. Cool bit. 

[AHPP]

14 minutes ago, Donnie said:

the tunnell that goes all the way underneath it

 

Tell me more. That sounds very interesting. 

[Donnie]

Here’s the outlet/overflow pipe 4 floors down an elevator at Fruid running fairly constant. That goes and feeds the river etc. 

 

Some photos from the Megget tower at the top, that’s impressive in there. 
 

 

[Donnie]

Here’s some photos I’ve found off of my phone from some other resevoirs I worked on before I quit/got the sack and went into the woods. 
 

Would of still been doing it if I were with a good company. Quite interesting the different processes there is to making water drinkable, loads of different processes… Albeit very very slow. 
 

All the pipes/inside photos are of Meggett going up the tower. 
 

[GarethM]

And when you think most of that pre modernization was designed by some bloke in the 1800s with nothing more than pencil and a spirit level!.

[AHPP]

That's fabulous.

[Donnie]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Tell me more. That sounds very interesting. 

It’s not all that interesting. Was just a 10-15 minute walk under the res in a 1 metre or so wide tunnell to the other end. 

 

We made an arc’d door frame to suit out of nylon sheet and attached a 3 phase fan at the top to circulate the air and demist the tunnel. 
 

Some of the photos of the resevoirs we had dive teams come in and fit/mount/weigh down these stainless steel frames that we fabricated to hold perforated sheet rolled into a tube that was capped and airline fittings welded into it. 
 

Cored a 300mm hole out through the small resevoir tower, fed ducting down the side of the tower and mounted it off of a rope and harness.

 

Then the divers came and done the underwater bit (who would have thought…)

Attaching the airlines to the frames. 

2 single phase compressors in the tower, running constantly 24/7, one on standby the other working. 
 

All to aerate the water around the inlet of the tower and keep algae away from the inlet/reducing the level of sludge and other dirt coming into the nearby water station. 
 

 

[Donnie]

6 minutes ago, GarethM said:

And when you think most of that pre modernization was designed by some bloke in the 1800s with nothing more than pencil and a spirit level!.

Meggett was built in the 60/-80s I think. 
They flooded my cutting partners aunties house when they opened it up. I’m sure there’s a school in there as well… 

 

The first engineering company/who I did my apprenticeship also did a lot of the steelwork in there. 
 

If I find more videos or photos I’ll post them. 
 

 

Safe to say I’ve derailed my own thread

Splendid work chaps

Edited August 31 by Donnie