Thursday, June 26, 2008

today was the day...


today was the day it started raining heavily...
today was the day we would try to start the bulldozer...
today was the day that we hoped to tame the river...
TODAY was the day everything went as planned!JIPPI
we were allowed to start one of the bulldozer to stop the river from destrouying even more of our road. it was such a relief when the huge engine roared. it's crazy to think that the bulldozer is from 1952 and still going strong...
i drove the dozer into the riverbed and showed Hansi how to use it then he went crazy in the river and carved out a huge ditch where the water could flow and dugg up some big walls to prevent the water from overflowing. this meant that there isn't that much water in the river anymore, thus making our life a lot easier...
after blocking the water we went down to the section of the road that was missing. i got stuck in the sand twice with the hydrema. then i just settled for smoothening the bottom of the road, so that we can lay down the drainage pipes tomorrow. Hansi dug out a huge section of ice and snow, so that the water can run alongside the road instead of cutting it into peaces...
tomorrow we will have to fill up the holes, but it will take some days...
it put out some more pictures on the picture page!

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