Water tank placement, Moreton Island
Six poly tanks and a pump skid placed at an island resort with no barge window and no vehicle access to the ridge.
The constraint
Tanks had to reach a ridge 1.4 km beyond the last trafficable sand track.
Barge scheduling was tide dependent and the resort could not close the beach access for a week.
Cutting a temporary track through vegetated dune required approvals nobody was going to obtain in the timeframe.
The lift
- Load weight
- 740 kg
- Aircraft
- Airbus H125
- Line length
- 30 m
- Crew
- 5
- Exclusion zone
- 45 m
- Lift cycles
- 7
01Loads were staged on the mainland at a cleared laydown near the barge ramp and flown across in seven cycles.
02Each tank flew empty on a 30 m line with a spreader to prevent shell distortion.
03Ground crew on the ridge landed each load onto pre-levelled pads and released remotely.
04The pump skid went last so plumbing could begin the same afternoon.
The numbers
- Time on site
- 2.6 hrs
- Flight time
- 1.9 hrs
- Crane alternative
- Not achievable · barge + dozer track $86,000+
- Road closures
- 0
On site
Client record
“Everyone told us to wait for the barge. Instead the whole tank farm landed on the ridge in one morning.”