Museum of Military and Labor Glory (Saratov). Part 8.
In order for a wide variety of equipment to move across the field, it needs to be leveled.
Initial report: Museum of Military and Labor Glory (Saratov). Part 1.
Previous report: Museum of Military and Labor Glory (Saratov). Part 7.
The first stage is carried out by a strange device with a strange name – a scraper, which can be either self-propelled or trailer-mounted.
Large holes are removed with a bulldozer.
The final alignment of the profile is carried out by graders.
And only then do they begin to systematically disfigure this flat surface with canals and trenches, forming an irrigation network. This can be done the old-fashioned way,
or you can entrust it to a handsome man like this.
Well, the last of the diggers.
We made the ditches, now we need some water in them. We can drill and pump them,
but we’re on the banks of the Volga, and there are other options. We’ll pump from the river. There’s a wide range of pumps available for this.
Moreover, there are monsters there whose existence I didn’t even suspect.
You can’t help but imagine the cruiser from which this propeller was torn off.
Now I understand why the Syr Darya River’s flow has decreased by an order of magnitude—it’s been pumped out! And they didn’t just pump it out, they poured it down like rain onto the fields. This delicate structure is used for this purpose.
There are many variations of such devices.
The length of this pipe on wheels can significantly exceed the length of a football field.