Sab Moulen

Carter and I went with Willie to go get Sab Moulen (ground up rock for making cement) yesterday afternoon. It took MUCH longer than we expected (which should be expected). Here are a couple pictures:

This picture is of the dump truck filling the grinder (and a picture of the whole works, really):


Here is the muscle behind the machine. It's a big engine and transmission from a truck like our steakbed and dumptruck. It's attached to the grinder using the same/a similar driveshaft. They have to shift it into 3rd or 4th gear using the regular truck shifter and a hand-operated throttle. There is also a guy that operates a hand operated clutch. I have video of them getting it going - it got stuck a few times and they had to rock (pun intended) it back and forth (1st and Reverse) to try to get it unstuck - which only worked 50% of the time: