Interested?

[kiebers]

Nice pics Mel. Keep them up.

[Herman]

Nice pics Mel. Keep them up.

Yep, good pictures.

[Melson Gibson]

Do you own your own equipment, rent them, or does it belong to an employer?

I own just the dump truck, and rent or lease nothing so far, but I suppose I could if the job called for it and made it worthwhile.



All of the other equipment I'd currently ever be running is either owned or leased by the gravel pit or customer.  It's not common for things to run this way in bigger cities, but here it's not uncommon for the supplier and customer to work out a deal for material, and it's cheaper to pay me my truck rate (all billed by the hour) to run the machines, than it is to bring in a loader operator who'd spend literally 1 hour loading in a 10 hour day.

[Melson Gibson]

Nice pics Mel. Keep them up.

Yep, good pictures.

Thanks!  



There's some really neat places around here, where I wished I had taken some pics of...  I'm not a fan of posting everything online, but the one dude that built a driveway to his new house that was so steep my truck could barely make it up in the dry SUMMER weather due to traction issues, is going to have fun with that in the winter!  Things like that are fun to share...



I suppose I take the natural geography of BC for granted at times, since I was born and raised here and it's what I'm used to, but many others are not.  It can be a breathtakingly beautiful place if in the right area at the right time.



Below is my front yard.  To me, it's really nothing special to see, but everything special to actually own.  Granted, some work is required to live with this, make no mistake, but I have to remind myself that I'm lucky to be where I am.



This region, for the small town feel it has, has actually quite a bit of history.  Tesla himself actually installed the Sandon powerplant, which is still running to this very day!



Mein Berghof:







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[DKG]

Does Eastern BC have a lot of active wildfires? I know one part of the province has many wildfires.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

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Man that is green.



I sure miss Canadian summers. Nothing like them in the world.

[Herman]

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Man that is green.



I sure miss Canadian summers. Nothing like them in the world.

It depends where in Canada. Nothing special about our summers on the prairies. It can get hot, but it is usually windy even in the summer.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Man that is green.



I sure miss Canadian summers. Nothing like them in the world.

It depends where in Canada. Nothing special about our summers on the prairies. It can get hot, but it is usually windy even in the summer.

I can deal with the weather. What really struck me was the quality of light. Something about it that I can't put my finger on, but it seems to being the landscape alive more so than other places I've been.



I wish I'd taken the time to check out the prairies.

[Herman]

It depends where in Canada. Nothing special about our summers on the prairies. It can get hot, but it is usually windy even in the summer.

I can deal with the weather. What really struck me was the quality of light. Something about it that I can't put my finger on, but it seems to being the landscape alive more so than other places I've been.



I wish I'd taken the time to check out the prairies.

The sun comes up at 5 am and goes down at nine pm at this time of year where I live.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Better than having it rise in March and set in September I'd imagine.

[Odinson]

Its light outside 24/7 now.



I have curtains that completely darken the bedroom.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Yeah, you'd need them I imagine.

[Melson Gibson]

Is Eastern BC have a lot of active wildfires? I know one part of the province has many wildfires.

No.  Not here at least.  We were having wicked thunderstorms for the last couple of weeks or so on-and-off, but luckily that lightning was accompanied by heavy rainfall also, so no issues.

[Melson Gibson]

Man that is green.



I sure miss Canadian summers. Nothing like them in the world.

I think it's a Pacific Northwest thing.  When shit grows here, it REALLY grows.  Moderate temps combined with just enough rainfall to keep things green, without needing much human intervention.



Years ago I used to truck through the Southwestern US States, and the first time I witnessed the absolute desolate desert was quite shocking to me.  We're talking Mojave and such...  I couldn't believe people even lived there, but they do.  It was a beautiful thing to experience, trucking all throughout Cali, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, but you couldn't pay me enough to reside in that desolate wasteland.

[DKG]

Does Eastern BC have a lot of active wildfires? I know one part of the province has many wildfires.

No.  Not here at least.  We were having wicked thunderstorms for the last couple of weeks or so on-and-off, but luckily that lightning was accompanied by heavy rainfall also, so no issues.

I saw it on CTV Barrie. They named the town where one of the fires was close to, but I can't remember it.