Doing this after the fact, so may be incomplete:
Weather was fantastic: warm, partly cloudy, not too windy.
After every break, a load was brought back to the U-Haul (parked at RMBL). The 2 track to kettle ponds was muddy but passable with the GSA trucks.
Tues: Onsite: Chris, Tony, Will, Josh, Justin, Terry, Brigitte
- Performed safety brief (Need to update the JHA form to flow with briefing)
- remove PI sensors and started removing all sensors that were reachable from ground level.
- removed all sensors from UE and UW
- removed all sonics from Center tower
- Lowered UE (in one piece)
- removed all power boxes and power cables (NOTE: BX Cable survived just fine under the snowpack)
Wed: Onsite: Chris, Tony, Will, Josh, Justin. Terry and Brigitte left at 1, replaced by Steve
- Lowered UW (in one piece used pulley system attached to anchor)
Would it be possible to use a GriGri or elevated safety to lower towers - removed all TRHs and DSMs from Center tower
- removed all equipment from D
- removed anchors as towers were lowered
Afternoon break, then:
- Took soil core
- Lowered d tower (in one piece). Only had one person on a side guy and tower slipped that way during lowering. Should have had someone on other side guy!
- Removed soil sensors
- Dismantled c tower from 70' to 20'
- Left site about 1845 – another long day!
Thurs: Onsite: Chris, Tony, Will, Josh, Justin, Steve, Elise, her tech Asa
- removed snow pillows
- lowered the last 20' of c
- organized anchored hardware during disassembly
- cleaned up site
- Left site with last load about 1200
- Cleared out RMBL storage room and Packed up the U-haul