Work gave me a huge break today

AKBill

AKBill

En-Route
Joined
Nov 29, 2014
Messages
3,735
Location
Juneau, AK
Display Name
Display name:
AKBill
Got a call from work today. They asked me if I was interested in heading up/organizing a rebuild of one of our underground loaders. About a 6 week job. I said sure, pencil me in.

It will most likely be 7 days a week with a 12 hour work day but. The other option is stay on my regular shift 21 days on ,21 days off, 12 1/2 hour work day, living in a man camp when on shift. I'll have 2 mechanics on day shift and 2 on night shift to supervise.

The rebuild will be in town so I don't have to stay in camp, can come home at the end of the day. It will be a 24 hour maintenance action, so I organize and run the dayshift and pass down work to the night shift.

Been off 5 months due to an eye injury, I still have mono vision. Trying to get everything ready for FAA so I can get my medical back and start flying again. Protect your eyes, you don't want to go thru what I have been thru.

This will be a great break in letting me get back in the swing of things.

Sure hope it pans out, living in camp sucks, food is good but that's about it

Edit: This is a pic of LR76 not the loader I will rebuild but same model. Poor LR76, remote mucking no one was in the cab..


LR76 .JPG
 
Last edited:
Best to you...and hope it works out for you...you will be back up soon.
 
Warlock said:
Best to you...and hope it works out for you...you will be back up soon.
Click to expand...
Thanks, doing annual now, getting everything ready to sell if I don't feel comfortable flying mono vision. Sure hope that does not happen, I have 2 CFI's wiling to work with me on staying current...:)
 
I hope it goes well. I just wanted to point out that in the main page on my phone, it says that you might be entitled to compensation for inappropriate physical contact ;)
 

Attachments

  • D8ED0CB3-6F3B-4174-9657-5047B1F1FA25.jpeg
    D8ED0CB3-6F3B-4174-9657-5047B1F1FA25.jpeg
    59.9 KB · Views: 48
Ted said:
I hope it goes well. I just wanted to point out that in the main page on my phone, it says that you might be entitled to compensation for inappropriate physical contact ;)
Click to expand...
Thanks Ted, I sure do not want to hug anyone at work...o_O
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ted
Who makes (made?) the LR76. Nothing came up on Google about it.
 
AKBill said:
Thanks, doing annual now, getting everything ready to sell if I don't feel comfortable flying mono vision. Sure hope that does not happen, I have 2 CFI's wiling to work with me on staying current...:)
Click to expand...

Make that 3 CFI’s, I’ll come up and work with you anytime.
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
Who makes (made?) the LR76. Nothing came up on Google about it.
Click to expand...
It is a Sandvik underground loader. about 1.5 million to you. They buried the loader tried to recover it but it was to unsafe to do so...:(

images


Dave Theisen said:
Make that 3 CFI’s, I’ll come up and work with you anytime.
Click to expand...
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Last edited:
That last picture gives us an idea of scale to the first one, which looked pretty small.
 
Last edited:
Timbeck2 said:
That last picture gives us an idea of scale to the first one, which looked pretty small.
Click to expand...
I guess you could call it small for the work it does. About 8 feet tall, 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, and about an 8 cubic yard bucket. Weights about 35 tons
 
AKBill said:
I guess you could call it small for the work it does. About 8 feet tall, 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, and about an 8 cubic yard bucket. Weights about 35 tons
Click to expand...

I get it but the first pic of the buried machine had nothing in it to compare for scale.
 
I hope your 'breaks' continue to get better than 7 days/12 hours
 
Ted said:
I hope it goes well. I just wanted to point out that in the main page on my phone, it says that you might be entitled to compensation for inappropriate physical contact ;)
Click to expand...

I think I will start a thread titled "Work messed up my assignment" and see how that comes across on your phone.
 
AKBill said:
Thanks, doing annual now, getting everything ready to sell if I don't feel comfortable flying mono vision. Sure hope that does not happen, I have 2 CFI's wiling to work with me on staying current...:)
Click to expand...
For what it’s worth I’ve been flying without binocular vision my whole piloting life. While both my eyes work, they have never worked “together” for stereoscopic depth perception or vision. I’m sure losing it is different but if you give it a bit of time it can be done.
 
Dan Thomas said:
What are you mining there?
Click to expand...
It's a Silver mine with, Lead, Zinc and Gold as secondary metals. That is a good thing because when the price of one metal is low the other metals helps offset the cost. Came up to Juneau in 1996 to train operators and mechanics on drilling, bolting, loaders and haul trucks. I liked the area and never really left. Got transferred to Nevada for a bit but I did not like the desert. Came back up to Juneau and started working for the mine. So far I have 21 years as an employee. Long hard days, but fairly good money. Hope to retire in 2 years. That's the plan......:lol:
 
AKBill said:
It's a Silver mine with, Lead, Zinc and Gold as secondary metals. That is a good thing because when the price of one metal is low the other metals helps offset the cost. Came up to Juneau in 1996 to train operators and mechanics on drilling, bolting, loaders and haul trucks. I liked the area and never really left. Got transferred to Nevada for a bit but I did not like the desert. Came back up to Juneau and started working for the mine. So far I have 21 years as an employee. Long hard days, but fairly good money. Hope to retire in 2 years. That's the plan......:lol:
Click to expand...
Took a Vancouver-Alaska cruise about 6 or 7 years ago. Docked in Juneau, then Skagway, and back to Ketchikan. Juneau seemed like a nice place. The problem with cruises, of course, is that you might get one day in port, not nearly enough to get away from the tourist traps and find the real culture. And you can't get off the boat and explore that beautiful shoreline and toss a fishing line into a river mouth. And maybe get eaten by a bear. All you can do is see the same shops, buy the same stuff in all three places, and resist the temptation to eat endlessly while on board. I guess Covid pretty much killed the cruise industry last year and probably this year, too.

Seems that not a lot of people know anymore the history of Alaska's ownership. Russia owned it and took furs out of it, but figured that fur was about all it was good for, and it was a long way from Moscow, so they offered it to Canada in 1867 for $7.5 million. Canada was busy putting Confederation together and put them off, so the US bought it and found gold and a lot of other valuable minerals and timber there. One of the best investments ever made.
 
eman1200 said:
I hope your 'breaks' continue to get better than 7 days/12 hours
Click to expand...
You know at 63 I must agree. Mining is a tough environment to work and the work schedules suck. Before this covid stuff hit my regular work shift was something like this.

Up at 3:30 am, head to boat, boat leaves at 5:00 am. About 5:45 boat docked on island were mine is located, jump on a bus and get to the mine around 6:20, change out go underground and work till 4:20 pm, head to surface and shower. Bus leaves 5:00 pm for the boat, boat picks you up around 5:40 pm and docks at home port around 6:25 pm. 10 minute drive home a quick beer or 2, a little dinner then bed.

So working in town I gain about 3 more hours of sleep a day...:lol:
 
Bill.. back to work, yeh ?
 
AKBill said:
Start the rebuild project on the loader 3-30-21. That will be my first day back since accident, 10-21-20
Click to expand...
So.. you've got another month to F-off.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top