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Sadly, this all the photos, I have left, today, taken with the GE compact camera, the backup.

 

Ignore the date stamp.

 

this was the work site at 1030 today.

 

The drill rig,is further down the track bed, drilling out for a center pile.

 

At this end, they have dropped in re enforcing cages. each hand wired together,as each section goes down,via the blue crane.

 

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Now I know what this kit is.

 

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They are extension  lengths for pouring concrete, note the chute head,at the top.

 

You can see, the first extension, is clamped in place,ready to accept more, the cage is already in the cylinder.

 

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Bottom left, Cylinder, ready to accept, more extension chutes,

 

bottom right,

this was the first pile, concrete in, cylinders removed, securing plate with nuts and bolts fitted,

Note,   has been covered with a protection hat.

 

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That's it for today, we had to leave,

 

One day,on my own, I will capture,the whole process.

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The trip to the other side of the world,(Folkestone)with the grandson today,was cancelled .

We tripped up the cliff,

I took 150 photo, made a 3 part video,of a new drilling on a new position,along with all of the

procedure s.

Returned home,to download from the camera.

The laptop told me,no data found, the camera,told me data card error !,!

These memory cards, are they made to be reused ?

I deleted data 3 times off the card, now find I can't reuse it.

Had to buy a new 32 GB one today.

 

The rig is piling in a completely new position,further down the track bed,

 

Could only get this with the iPad before leaving, hopefully, you may see the position.

 

The first pile has been capped, the second pile, I made a movie of the reinforcement cage going in,they were about to start concreting .

Alas, all wiped of the card.

 

Couple of other photos on a standby camera. Upload later.

 

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The last post on the previous page, brought forward.

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I have not had a problem with the SD cards in my cameras, I don't take the card out of the camera too download it, but use the cable to connect it to the pc or laptop.

Thanks for posting,

I too, do the same procedure, but, have formed the habit,of deleting the photos,from the card,once up/down loaded.

So it is empty,for the next session.

I do this,because,when I upload the new set of photos,to the camera programme,

I don't have to sit and untick, all of the boxes of yesterday s, images, that remain on the card.

Hope that makes sense.

Maybe I should buy rolls of film ?

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Thanks for posting,

I too, do the same procedure, but, have formed the habit,of deleting the photos,from the card,once up/down loaded.

So it is empty,for the next session.

I do this,because,when I upload the new set of photos,to the camera programme,

I don't have to sit and untick, all of the boxes of yesterday s, images, that remain on the card.

Hope that makes sense.

Maybe I should buy rolls of film ?

I tend to use move this file, rather than copy and delete.

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There are some good pc apps around for retreiving lost data from cards gone bad. It can be worth trying a couple of the free ones to see if you can get anything back. No current recommendations  as I haven't had to do this for some time.

But I wonder if the camera just sends data and just "trusts " the card to record it with no feedback.If so it may be that noting got to the card, whatever the camera sent

 

As to cause, didn't your kit  get a soaking recently? I guess you'd need  a special tool to get at and clean the card slot contacts.

 

Good luck with sorting te problem

 

Dave

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I've had a couple of Olympus digital cameras which share a lot with Fuji and the first one had  a problem with the card reader that stopped working.  I sent it off for repair and ended up being given a new camera in exchange for the cost of the fixed price repair fee.  This included, exchanges for my lenses as well as they had gone from 4/3rds to micro 4/3rds and mirrorless.  I have been very impressed with the service and the new camera.  It might well be worth contacting their service department for advice.

 

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It is worth reformatting memory cards after deletion of pictures, not necessary every time though.

 

Stewart

I may be well out of date, but in the early days of memory cards it was suggested that there was a limit to the number of rewrites that could be made. Card use was supposed to be  governed by some complex algorithms which evened out the use of  memory, and could identify and avoid dodgy memory cells. I'm not sure how this helps, but my feeling has always been not to reformat unnecessarily. Perhaps a reformat when changing to a new camera would be sensible, to match storage to the new hardware.

 

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A recap of plies drilled and filled to date.

 

Close to the tunnel mouth's are these.

 

Looking from the lower part of the cliff path,adjacent to the fenced off stair's.

 

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The same one's,looking from above the tunnel mouth's.

 

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This I believe to be the one, they started yesterday, when I lost all data on my camera.

 

24 hours on and today, you can see,it is down to depth and all sections fitted, 

the lower sections of caging must have been fitted before our arrival at 1115.

They are in the process of fitting and dropping in the final cage (s).

 

These photo's shew the final drop-in's  ( i have video,but you may find it boring).

 

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while the drop is taking place, a series of hoses are rigged up, these lead back to the Siltbuster machine,

The disconnection of these hose's,before connection,or maybe flushing them through, lead's 

to what appear's, flood of the site with liquid concrete.

 

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Here are the hose's leading back to the blue Siltbuster,in the right hand corner.

 

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   I am still at a loss of what this procedure is about.

 

 

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Back to the drop in.

 

Waiting for the drop.

 

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"We need to go climb the mountain,Grandad, my lunch is getting cold, Hurry up" !

 

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"You can take your photos now, we are the top,of the mountain, I am having my lunch now.

 

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Commencing,lowering of this last section.

 

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This red machine,on the rear of the dumper,seems to be quite important, but, I have not yet found out,what it''s function is.

 

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I have run out of time tonight, to upload any more to this thread.

As we will not be going to the site tomorrow.

I will upload,the rest of the sequence, of this pile.

A few other photos,of other part's of the site,

 tomorrow morning, as rain is forecast, all day.   :drag:

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Commencing,lowering of this last section.

 

 

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This red machine,on the rear of the dumper,seems to be quite important, but, I have not yet found out,what it''s function is.

 

 

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Must be a new management trick  .....  a mobile Tea Urn - to save all that previous walking to and from the rest room  .......     :sungum:  :sungum:

 

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"...seriously though..."

How can the piling contractors be confident that this insitu technique does not allow ingress of salty sea water to

1) seriously weaken the mix and

2) initiate corrosion of the re-inforcement?

B)

 

Can someone please explain?

 

dh

 

Edit to cope with typing

b) after a)

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