Photo diary - the whole story

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	Creating the access track
	Inspecting the construction access track
	The new turbine arrives
	Turbine blades arrive
	Tower adapter plate
	Milling the flanges on the tower adapter plate
	Washing the turbine tower
	Washing the blades
	Temporary access track
	Removing parts from the MS4 nacelle
	Old turbine with nose cone removed
	Removal of blade bolts
	View from the site
	Slight problem getting the crane to site
	We needed two winch trucks to recover the crane
	Old style salvage equipment!
	Recovering the crane
	Crane making its way up to site
	Crane arriving at site
	Jacking up the crane
	Preparing to remove the blades from the old turbine
	Removing the second blade
	Just one more blade to remove
	Final blade being removed
	Final blade being removed
	Last blade being lowered to the ground
	Old turbine blades
	MS4 blades
	Removing the MS4 tower
	Tower removal
	Removing the bottom tower section
	Readying the bottom tower section for removal
	Getting ready to remove the bottom tower section.
	Removing the bottom section of tower
	Removing the bottom section of tower
	The turbine tower finally gets lifted off
	The last bit of tower is removed
	Base of the old turbine tower
	Cutting up the old turbine tower.
	Old tower sections being removed from site
	Tower adapter plate arriving at site
	First section of the new tower arrives
	Foundation bolts
	The adapter plate bolted to the foundations.
	Positioning the first tower section onto the adapter plate
	Tim checking the bolt holes line up
	Blades arriving
	Nacelle arriving
	Attaching the straps to the second tower section
	Lifting the second tower section
	Positioning the tower section
	Inching the tower section into place
	Working on the nacelle
	Gearbox being removed from lorry
	Lowering the gearbox into the nacelle
	Finishing touches to the nacelle
	Nacelle ready to lift
	Nacelle being lifted into position
	On the ground during the nacelle lift
	Positioning the nacelle
	Blade extension being attached to the blade
	Attaching the blades to the rotor
	Getting ready to attach the blade to the rotor
	Attaching the nose cone
	New rotor and blades ready to lift
	Lifting the rotor begins
	Attaching the rotor
	Sunset on a Friday afternoon
	Shareholders admiring the new turbine