WINNING
A block ready for the trip to Richard’s Bay.
“We are working at full
capacity, so it is not always
possible to make up the days
[lost to weather], though we
try wherever possible.”
hard granite,” explains Smit. Cutting a tyre
in a granite pit is a regular event. “We can
fix some tyres and put them on the back
of the vehicle, because all the weight is in
the front. However, as a result of our COP
and staff training, we have had only one
tyre cutting incident in the past four
months. In the past, we had to have a
person walking beside the truck to check
for stones, but this had to be stopped
when the DMR introduced PDS
(proximity detection system), which
outlawed people being in proximity to a
vehicle,” says Smit. [See our feature article
on page 22].
“These loading machines cannot move
on rainy days as they will just skid. Only
the excavators can function,” says Smit.
We apologise for a wrong photo which appeared in the section Winning, as well as in the
Contents section introducing the article “Shaking up Midrand”, in the January issue of
Quarry Southern Africa. The article was a profile of AfriSam’s Jukskei Quarry in Midrand,
while the two photos were of a completely different quarry. The accompanying photo
should have appeared.
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