Wind Turbines anyone??

Erecting Turbines last week and I took this Pic to show the Equipment used enjoy

 

Another day on the job. view from the ground of us working on top.

 

The view still amazes me.

Thanks for the photos, Quig. Be careful up there!

 

Some of our off shore crews working

 

Wind Turbine Repairs

When you're dealing with equipment the size of wind turbines, repairs are almost always major undertakings. A critical piece of equipment failed on our turbines , which required us to remove the blades, nacelle (the rectangular box that houses the generator and other components) and ring gear (a large ring at the base of the gear box that helps the turbine blades turn into the wind), install a new ring gear, and put the turbine back together again.

 

Barnhart Crane & Rigging is who we use out west
They are 400' If i remember right.

 

They are shipped by truck one at a time.
They are shipping from Vancouver ship docks daily now to Eastern Oregon.
they go up as a set or singles depending on the wind.
they have slings and use multiple cranes to do this.
I will get out next week and take some pics when they fly them up.

 

We have started the Project here within 20 mins of home, no more traveling for me, at least for a while.'
These are of the first five in the line of 62 Wind Turbines,
I will try and post progress of our construction site.
I have been promoted to Supervisor of main crane operations.
I work at least 6 days a week 530am to at least 800pm, so I might not find time some days due to work and paper work afterwards.
But I will try.

 

This is the rotor that the iron workers are trying to unload also the three blades that attach to it.
In this particular picture they had the rotor swing out do to too much boom out on the crane and it slid off and came back and hook the semi trailer.
They started to lift it anyway and the trailer came off of the ground.
I stopped the job and then they got the fork lift and picked up the trailer and moved it over.
BTW the guy in the photo is an awesome iron worker named ZZ……
short for ZZ top…..I don’t know why….LOL

 

Here are the blades in various stages of unloading

 

Nacelle unloading and craning up to the top

 

Seting the Base section and grouting

 

The loads are so heavy they have to be towed up hill by a Truck called "Iron Mike"

 

A Nacelle coming up the draw to the site