Showing posts with label skidoos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skidoos. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

then the whole team will extend

Since 6th, sails, team has arrived in the middle for unloading operations, the first goal is as soon as possible, two teams inland expedition required material delivery to starting base, strive for inland team can on the 18th, most night not later than 22 sunrise hair. To this end, the whole expedition collectively mobilized, 24 hours a day and night constantly work.

Skidoos is the main transport inland investigation. Arrival, sails, several inland team began to skidoos mechanic in maintenance and maintenance, installation and crawler crane installation snow shovels and snow, Dou, oil changing, installation radar system etc, to advance to the Antarctic do sufficient preparation.

Inland team used skidoos basically has two kinds, one kind is american-made carter bille challenger MT865B type skidoos (hereinafter referred to as carter car), this kind of car is big, strong and durable traction, but not enough flexibility, through sexual bad.

A is German Keith Bauer PB300 type skidoos, this car ride through sex good, comfortable, flexible operation, but traction not strong. Normally, carter car can drag-and-drop five sled, but only PB300 drag the four sled.

The two teams were equipped with 9 expedition inland truck skidoos, including 5 tanks PB300 and four cars carter car. Among them, the inland kunlun: there are equipped with 3 vehicles PB300 and four cars carter, GeLuoFuShan team equipped with 2 car PB300. Kunlun: there seven car skidoos will drag the carrying ShengHuoCang, power generation cabin, occupant cabin on about thirty sled, GeLuoFuShan team of 2 car skidoos is dragged 8 sled. The team captain LiYuanSheng said inland,  connecting several kilometers, the ice shields, spectacular marching on.

true can be called "crawler"

Since the 18th starting today, we accumulated more than 320 km travel, a car with five or six hours can finish walking distance, we walked seven days.

The start, two teams to inland expedition USES 9 cars skidoos, traction carrying ShengHuoCang, power generation equipment, oil tank, hkale etc, weight more than 40 only sled 500 tons. Overload the burden of marching rather difficult making skidoos, only fastest speed per hour 12 kilometers.

The white Antarctic ice caps, not people imagine, flat on the ice wind blowing snow long, earth dam and high, snow snow along the direction of the wind blew his irregular intervals. Skidoos grinding obsolete, throughout the body sometimes violent tremor, hustling issued after the investigation in carriage team, will often hold roof railing, can avoid colliding or drop seat. So every shaking 10 hours later, return accommodation, our room is often chaos and ruin.

GeLuoFuShan team only 2 car skidoos, a car skidoos after being torn down the car compartment still used to pack crane, so in addition to 2 mechanic, captains and responsible for the GPS positioning of the personnel outside, 6 other players are all squeezed in a trunk. The carriage was only two zhang bar stool, and ideal-state one day on the waist sour backache. We will give full play to the human wisdom, seek to two thin rubber gasket, spread in the car compartment bottom, thus, two players can drill to stool asleep under, the other players space can also relatively expand point.

As long as skidoos not breaks down, we will travel every day 12 and 16 hours. Our journey, is this time only keywords. During the procession, except for refueling, toilet outside is not parking, hungry eat the rest of the morning breakfast, thirsty drink some day, flashing snow water will drink less, such ability less toilet.

Most expect the camp every night after dinner. Parking Hot on several bags of aviation meal, 10 people sitting around a small table, we're family ~