Interesting Job

[Nick Drew]

Today while travelling home from my current place of work I came across an interesting job which has just started in the market town of Tavistock in Devon England, the work is being carried out by the Enviroment Agency and involves diverting the fast flowing river Tavy so that repairs can be done to an existing wier and to create a new one as well, I hope to stop by on a regular basis and take some more photos as the job makes progress.

In the meantime here are a few shots of the Kobelco SK135 that they are using at the moment which is a self-drive machine hired in from Bridgewater based R.K.Bell Plant Hire seen here placing large "Sandbags" to form the diversion.

[rvannatta]

Today while travelling home from my current place of work I came across an interesting job which has just started in the market town of Tavistock in Devon England, the work is being carried out by the Enviroment Agency and involves diverting the fast flowing river Tavy so that repairs can be done to an existing wier and to create a new one as well, I hope to stop by on a regular basis and take some more photos as the job makes progress.

In the meantime here are a few shots of the Kobelco SK135 that they are using at the moment which is a self-drive machine hired in from Bridgewater based R.K.Bell Plant Hire seen here placing large "Sandbags" to form the diversion.

In water work is always interesting. Im a bit wondering about the sandbags --- look like they have limesone
or something in them certainly not the sand that I am used to....

[Nick Drew]

Today while travelling home from my current place of work I came across an interesting job which has just started in the market town of Tavistock in Devon England, the work is being carried out by the Enviroment Agency and involves diverting the fast flowing river Tavy so that repairs can be done to an existing wier and to create a new one as well, I hope to stop by on a regular basis and take some more photos as the job makes progress.

In the meantime here are a few shots of the Kobelco SK135 that they are using at the moment which is a self-drive machine hired in from Bridgewater based R.K.Bell Plant Hire seen here placing large "Sandbags" to form the diversion.

In water work is always interesting. Im a bit wondering about the sandbags --- look like they have limesone
or something in them certainly not the sand that I am used to....

No not limestone or at least I wouldnt of thought so More than likely to be a waste product from the local china clay pits which is sold for various purposes.

[joe foz]

how did they track it in there?

[Nick Drew]

how did they track it in there?

They had an access point on the bank across the river

Nick

[Jeremy Rowland]

Cracking pics there Nick, yes mate a very interesting job indeed
Look forward to more pics of this.

Jeremy

[john345me]

lets hope they dont have heavy rain

[RichardJW~]

Nick, they seem to have been on that job for a while - I came back thru Tavy last August and seem to remember they were in there paddling around

[Nick Drew]

Its been finished for quite some time now as far as I know.

Haven't been out that way for sometime now as I have ben working down St Austell for nearly a year now !

I am off to pastures new next week for a different firm ....details soon

Nick