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Starship Development Thread #47

New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:

Starbase Live-

8:31am- Mini excavator arrives and starts digging towards the back left side. Start of the pit for the deluge piping to run over to the underground bunker from the OLM?

9:56am- Manifold sections come into view

9:59am- Head on view looks like some crazy new battle tank coming down the road

10:31am- Manifolds arrive at the launch site. Now we just need one of the cranes to disconnect from the plate to lift them. (Just based on position, I’d assume it’ll be the LR11000)

10:49am- Steel plate raised back up

12:46pm- Plate lowered again

12:47pm- 3rd smaller crane comes in and removes a piece of metal

1:06pm- LR11000 looks to be unhooked

1:07pm- Small crane removed another piece of metal.

1:13pm- Another piece of metal removed

1:25pm- Grover is unhooked

1:29pm- Grover swings away and lowers.

1:31pm- A poor telehandler driver learns the dangers of driving in the rain next to a slope

1:38pm- Another piece of metal removed

1:42pm- Mini excavator with a Jack hammer attachment starts working in between the leg with the cryo pipes and the leg with the new staircase

1:50pm- 4th piece of metal removed

1:58pm- 5th piece of metal removed

2:30pm- Front end loader hooked to the stranded telehandler

2:34pm- Flat piece of metal lifted from the cryo pit

2:40pm- Front end loader gave it his all. The telehandler didn’t budge.

2:52pm- Telehandler brings in a load of metal to where the Jack hammer has been working

3:02pm- Lifting rig is starting to be attached to the first manifold section

3:23pm- First manifold lifted off of SPMT’s

3:29pm- Manifold sat down on ground

3:30pm- Smaller crane is hooked up to the stand the manifold was on and it is lifted off to the other side

3:35pm- Smaller crane disconnected from stand

3:43pm- Manifold is being lifted again

3:52pm- Lowered onto the stand it was moved on

3:55pm- Lifting straps being disconnected from the first manifold

3:57pm- A Cat excavator is getting ready to show the stuck telehandler who’s boss

4:08pm- Telehandler is free. They made a mess of that berm though. (Don’t pull uphill at shallow angles)

4:14pm- Telehandler drives away.

4:16pm- Lifting straps being connected to second manifold

4:20pm- Top left box. Manifold is lifted slightly and moved off to the side of the SPMT’s. (Can be seen better on Rover 2)

4:53pm- Second manifold lifted, swung over, and set down on stand

5:05pm- LR11000 unhooked from the second manifold

7:21pm- LR11000 gets hooked up to something. Can’t tell if it’s a manifold for sure.

8:29pm- Cryo pit got too chilly and someone had to start a fire to get warm. (There’s flames but no one is freaking out, so I’m assuming they’re intentional)

8:59pm- Police staging at Sanchez for the next roll out

9:05pm- Roll on to the highway, roll on along, Roll on manifold, to your new home, Roll on sheriff, roll on crew, Roll on SPMT’s like we ask you to do, And roll on 96 wheeler, roll on

9:30pm- Manifold arrives

9:52pm- LR11000 has picked up the section it’s been strapped to and backed towards the OLM

10:02pm- Crane rotates piece

10:08pm- Lowered towards the ground still spinning

10:20pm- Sat down on the ground

10:26pm- Forklift brings the stand over for the manifold piece

10:28pm- Manifold lifted back up

10:33pm- Sat back down on stand

10:41pm- Crane appears to be disconnected and there are multiple people on top of the plate

Rover 1-

9:50am- SPMT’s carrying 2 manifold sections rolls towards launch site

21:06- Second rollout of the day passes by

Rover 2-

10:21am- Manifolds come into view

10:25am- Turns into the gate

16:20- Second manifold lifted

16:37- Small crane lifts stand for second manifold off to the side

16:50- SPMT’s leave launch site

16:54- Manifold swung over to the stand

21:28- Third manifold arrives

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I had never watched a CSI Starbase video before today, and jeez, these things are addictive.

New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:

So that’s where the wrecker went

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