{"id":3537,"date":"2017-05-19T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:56:04","slug":"3537","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2017\/05\/3537\/","title":{"rendered":"The saga of getting the Hilux off the barge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting our new Hilux off the barge was a huge undertaking. \u00a0Thanks to Dawili Debo&#8217;s ingenuity, persistance and negotiating skills he got the truck safely off the barge and on to Gemena.<\/p>\n<p>The barge arrived at the port of Akula Thursday night May 11 and Dawili headed down on Friday. \u00a0He found two things that were complications: 1) all the tubeless tires had gone flat and 2) there were 7 other barges between the one the truck and the port itself. \u00a0As there was no air compressor in Akula, he set the truck on blocks, took 2 wheels off at once and drove about 30 kms back N to the Ngwaka plantation where they had a compressor to put air back in the tires.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning he started the big job of finding a way to get the truck across 7 barges to land. \u00a0Not only did he have to bridge across each barge, but he also had to negotiate space to move the truck through the people camping on the barges. \u00a0And making this even more complicated was the fact that the truck would not start. \u00a0The positive cable had been disconnected for the voyage thereby allowing the truck&#8217;s internal computer to lose all it&#8217;s memory. \u00a0So they had to push truck all the way.<\/p>\n<p>He used planks to bridge the open gap between barges, but first he had to manually move the front of the truck (right in the photo) to get it lined up with where he could set the planks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3538\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142214.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3539\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142429-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142429-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_142429.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And next push it across the planks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3540\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152216.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3541\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152325.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some crossing were easy and some much more difficult. \u00a0To get on to one barge they have to push the truck uphill as the barge was 3 feet higher. \u00a0Then of course back down on the other side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3544\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152347.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3545\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152848-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152848-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_152848.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oops. \u00a0Obstacle. \u00a0Have to move the front end over again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_153018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3547\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_153018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_153018-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_153018.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_154609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3550\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170513_154609-300x169.jpg\" 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