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weekend prior to the activities pictured here was spent in disconnecting
all of the steam, water, fuel, and electrical connections to the boiler
and its accessories such as the feedwater system. Shown here is
the removal of the boiler stack just a few days before the boiler would
be removed. |
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The
activities began on this Saturday in the spring of 2000 as shown
here. Camp Creek Members donated their efforts to remove the wall
of the boiler room, and also making final preparations on the boiler
itself for removal. This included cutting welded piping
connections and other attachments so the boiler was free to be skidded
from the boiler room. |
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the boiler is shown making its first move out of the boiler room and
onto club member Dennis Johnson's lowboy trailer. The boiler is
being pulled by the winch on the trailer. We had to overcome
another obstacle by using what we had available as well. The
boiler would not skid on the concrete alone so much of the boiler
feedwater pipe was cut into sections and placed under its skids.
This allowed the boiler to roll much more easily from its resting
place. |
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Here
the boiler begins is travel up the back end of the trailer. The
deck of the trailer was greased and steel plates placed under the skids
on the bottom of the boiler to help it make this initial rise. |
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boiler is almost on the trailer at this point. It was also about
this time that we had a large wrecking truck come out to help winch the
boiler onto the trailer. Using the winches from both trucks the
boiler made a surprisingly smooth transition to setting level on the
trailer. We had to be very careful here that the boiler didn't tip
too early of the back end could have hit the top of the opening in the
wall as seen here. |
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Finally
after a long day of hard work Camp Creek members posed with the boiler
after it was successfully loaded on the trailer and ready for transport
back to the organization's grounds. |