Last week we finished the painting of the CCAS tower and the removal of the equipment on upper X hex.
This week we will expect a crane to arrive on Monday and from Tuesday through Friday we will be removing the old tracker bridge, install the Virus Support Structure and stage the upper and lower X rail assemblies for the new tracker onto the dome floor. The upper and lower X rail assemblies will be shipped from CEM in Austin to McDonald on Monday so that they will be on site Tuesday morning. The road to the top of the mountain will be closed to non-essential personnel.
We are still on schedule.
Here is a site with a few images from this morning:
http://nexus.as.utexas.edu:8081/obs_sup/doss/ssdoss/picts/HET/HET%20WFU/HET%20WFU%20-%2008%20Oct%202013/
More pictures from later in the day at
http://nexus.as.utexas.edu:8081/obs_sup/doss/ssdoss/picts/HET/HET%20WFU/Tracker%20Lift%20-%2008%20Oct%202013/
or at
http://nexus.as.utexas.edu/~martin/HET_WFU_Crane/