TAS
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The low tide due today at 5:15 make today an ideal time to remove the posts
Does anyone have any objections ?
Who can lend a hand
Meet at the Lauderdale Shop about 5pmto walk out and cut them off.
TAS
2344 posts
I don't know about cutting them off Dave (someone may tread on the left over post), how about pulling them out totally?
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That would be good - but how - reckon each one will weight around 500Kg with the concrete foot
If we had access to a decent barge and a winch maybe
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Which posts are these? The bits that stick out in reasonably shallow water at about the halfway mark?
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2433 posts
Yep they are the ones! If they are to be cut off, they need to be dug away at least 300mm deep then cutand the sand replaced over the top.
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They've been taunting me during my windsurfing apprenticeship. By their continued proximity they've shown me how long it takes me to cover any distance at all!
They have actually been kind of helpful as a reference point for staying in the right depth of water. I'm sure I wouldn't think that if I'd smashed into them though :-)
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i suggest we wait for a weekend when we have all hands on deck. in a super low tide i will drive the subaru out !.
besides the lagoon is on for a sail this afternoon.
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I'm with Geared for knitting. Goons arvo!
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ok this arvo is off
I will try to get to the goon this arvo - if it starts
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might be easier to make them a couple of feet longer so they're always exposed???
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Definitely need either cutting off or attaching a bloody great marker.........I think I may be the only dum b.stard that's hit one of the poles, got away with a ripped wetsuit and a wrecked sail but could have been worse....not that anyone would help me if I was stuck like a pig.
More dangerous now since the deeper one collapsed. I tried to get MAST to take them out, they asked me whether they could pull it out with a runabout with a 30 hp motor.......very helpful
I'm all for cutting them out
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I've got a small generator that will just power my small angle grinder.
Some help getting this on site, digging and the carrying the trash out.
From memory there is other stuff like road works signs gathered around the base of the sign.
Will have to look at it on a mega low tide during sunlight hours.
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Hi, my 50 cents worth
We may need a Houston's farm tractor (or similar)? I bet someone would have a problem with us taking a tractor on the bay; but it would be a good way to chain around the post and easily drag it all away.
I would be more than happy to help wash said tractor after at the BP power wash.
Cheers Russ
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Russ that's a nice Idea, but I reckon any tractor would get bogged (hence I haven't volunteered mine).
If someone could get a decent sized flat bottom barge that we could move in next to it I could probably get a winch from somewhere, or put the tractor on the barge and use it to lift the posts out. I do this for old fence posts.
But tractors would just sink in the soft muddy sand
I'm in