29.3.12. Testing day. We called on the usual people we use for testing our equipment for the job. Eye bolt plates were secured in the concrete of the slip and the WE blocks were located over them, two at a time. Then connected, with the load cells, and the blocks powered up to lift against the eye bolt plates in the concrete. The blocks have a capacity of 4 Tonnes each and all  four of them met that figure comfortably.
To further prove the boat lift's capacity we then connected it to the barge and lifted it out of the water. Again, it accomplished the task easily.
While this was going on, the counter-balance weight for the front of the tractor was being completed. It consists of a large plastic fuel tank filled with concrete located on a plate welded to the front bracketry of the tractor. This is the last link in the chain of events to enable boats to be slipped. The first is planned to be Dennis's on the 31st.