Well, I am now back from the mine. What an interesting 3 days let me tell you. Going out there after a 4 day public holiday is not wise, as although we have it off, the mine does not. Thus, the work load piles up. I ended up leaving on Friday with about 2 and a half days worth of jobs still outstanding... sorry to the next bloke.
As it is almost 6 weeks since I was last out there it took me a day or two to find everything again, as in 6 weeks a lot changes out there. They literally move mountains in that time. And roads. Anyhow, that aside, I managed to not get into any arguments with large machinery so that's always a good thing.
Not too many hilarious stories to recount from the last 3 days, plenty of technical stories but that won't interest anyone. We did have a bit of an emergency on one of the days with a grader about to catch fire, when they used the emergency system over the radio we noticed a few other wee issues which resulted in me spending pretty much all of Friday trying to chase my tail. Friday morning was good though, I was tasked to accompany a young environmentalist chick out to check on a solar charging system for one of their blasting monitors. I would have been quite happy for that job to last all day.
Anyhow, here is a link to a video I managed to take of a large truck which forced me off the road on the way home:Click Here.
Unfortunately the video isn't the best angles but however, you get the idea.
Ryan is away on some pipeline job out in the middle of nowhere, so I have the place to myself for the weekend. I have a bit of a list of things to do, so won't be a completely lazy weekend. We had over 45mm of rain last night, in about an hour, the heaviest rain I have ever experience even yet, and we have had some pretty heavy rain. There goes the mowing the front lawn plan...
The lawn has grown to over 6 inches in the last two weeks, the rain and the heat really sets the grass off, it's a full time job just keeping on top of it.
Right, I better go and start knocking jobs off my list, here's a couple of pics. I opened the enviromental telemetery box to find... it was actually run by frogs.
TTFN
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