This should really be part 3. I was working at the Asau site the day that...
It may look small, and it was, but the grey portion of the hole in the picture below took a whole day to line up equipment for and then dig with a pneumatic jack hammer. The whole area where we put the station was a layer of large rocks, then some dirt and large rocks, and then solid basalt -- lava.
With enough of a hole dug to hold the barrel everything shifted into high
gear. Guys that worked for the forestry division came out of the woodwork
-- I mean the jungle. At times it was fun just trying to get them to slow
down a bit.
Voila! Since the bottom of this barrel was anchored in cement in lava there was a pretty good chance of having great coupling here.
We cleaned off the equipment, covered everything up, and headed for our fales in Manase.
However, before we left, we had a beer, or two, and relaxed on the porch. The view from the floor of the porch was kind of nice.
2014-07-24