Monday, January 14, 2008

Classes Begin





We got things rolling in the classroom today, starting with an overview of the Skystream turbine, and our initial objective of determining the status of our equipment which had been shipped to Forfar.

Fortunately all the delicate components seem to have arrived in good shape. Unfortuantely we are missing some of the rebar needed for the foundation peers. Seems to have gone missing in transit. We are blessed though, in that our local goto guy, Pete Davidson, knows where and how to get most everything so we will work past this.

Once we completed our inventory we headed out to site the turbine. Using a two string lines for marking the axis of the turbine foundations we shifted, rotated and ended up with a location that we are all happy with. Pictures you see Henry acting as the Tower anchor, Aaron, as the west anchor, and Elizaebth making sure we've all got it right. Jason serves as the south anchor, Tommy serves as the turbine head, and Joel serves as the North anchor. We're thinking of patenting this new turbine siting method.