camster cairns turbines.

[givemecandy]

Hi, I was watching lorries delivering the turbine sections along the camster road, and noticed the signs stating maximum road weight of 7.5t. Obviously these loads far exceed those weights. what happens in this case do the roads department wave these regulations? Just Interested.

[pat]

Do they bother to advise the Roads Dept the turbines are over the weight for this road or do the council turn a blind eye, unless someone points it out to them.

A few more potholes and road edges to be filled in no doubt.

[embow]

Hi, I was watching lorries delivering the turbine sections along the camster road, and noticed the signs stating maximum road weight of 7.5t. Obviously these loads far exceed those weights. what happens in this case do the roads department wave these regulations? Just Interested.Very surprised they are using the Camster Road. Thought they were all coming in at Bilbster off the Watten/Wick road for the very reason that the Camster Road had this weight restriction. Where exactly on the Camster Road did you see them as it might have been past or before (depending on direction of travel) the bits where the weight restriction is applicable?

[Topofthehill]

Ehhh... think you might of been watching the turbine sections being transported along the wind farm access road which runs adjacent to the camster road....

[Stack Rock]

These loads have a police escort so I doubt they would be using the Camster Road. The loads I've seen all use the Watten / Wick road to the access road.

[Invisible]

Highly doubt they used the Camster road to transport any turbine sections. The entry at Camster isn't wide enough for a start. Embow is right they come in from the Wick/Watten road near Haster

[fred]

Word on the street many years ago was that the Forestry had approached the council with a proposal to share in the cost of upgrading the Camster road, the council wanted the forestry to pay all the costs, the Forestry decided it would be cheaper to build their own road to Watten. Caithness drivers missed out on getting a decent road subsidised by the Forestry.

It was just rumours, don't know how much truth was in it.

[golach]

It was just rumours, don't know how much truth was in it.

Oh no it was all a another conspiracy theory [lol]

[Shaggy]

Each of the windfarms have their own access roads with Camster and Wathegar having seperate but close by access roads. Whilst the Wathegar site has just the one access road, the Camster windfarm can however be also accessed from the Camster/Lybster road about 4 miles in from the Watten side but the road wouldn't be able to be used by the HGV's delivering the parts as its too narrow and come the first farm with the dog-leg bend in the road they would be stuck

The trucks delivering the rock base for the access roads were also banned from using the Camster/Lybster road. If they were allowed to use it, the road would have probably broken up completely with the weight of the trucks and need replacing afterwards but instead its the trucks that got trashed and need replaced after running over all that rock to deliver more rock. From the entry to the Camster windfarm, its approx 8 miles to the main office site and trust me, with all the bumps and potholes, its a real pain in the ass driving up there all the time in the truck and although there are many potholes they do maintain the road on a daily basis. My only gripe is that they don't have a box at the entrance with disposable gumshields [lol].

Anyone care to guess just how much rock has actually been used up there?

[fred]

Oh no it was all a another conspiracy theory [lol]

I wasn't too sure of the facts of the matter but if the org clique is calling it a conspiracy theory then I would say it is almost certainly true.

Which is a shame because one of the most popular tourist attractions in Caithness, the Grey Cairns of Camster, could have been made available to coaches and some real benefit to the county could have come from this development.

[George Brims]

I used to live at the farm with the dog-leg bend (Strath). We lost count of the number of times some late night (probably drunk) driver came tapping at the door needing a man with a tractor (Dad) to come and pull them out of the ditch. One bloke had to be towed out of the field because he flew right over the ditch and through the fence, and collapsed his suspension when he landed in the field.

[Sgitheanach]

Anyone care to guess just how much rock has actually been used up there?

Do you mean the amount of rock brought in or the amount we took out of the borrow pit?