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My photo collection
- Thread starter 245dlc
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Theweldor
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Some pretty interesting iron there.
245dlc
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On our long way home we came across this used equipment yard near Vermilion, AB so I took some photos they had some ex-British Army trucks from CFB Suffield an army base in Southern Alberta used by the British Army for training large mechanized forces. Usually known to them as British Army Training Unit Suffield or BATUS. 
245dlc
Senior Member
I've spent several years as a Volunteer Firefighter in the past and have been on many grass and brush fires and always wanted to try using a crash truck and found this one by the Hancock Scraper.
245dlc
Senior Member
Some pictures from my early days as an operator when I moved to Edmonton, AB and everything was booming like crazy roads and subdivisions were being built and upgraded. At the time this Hitachi EX1100 was the largest machine I ever saw at 21 years old. It was being used to dig a storm retention pond in a residential subdivision it was loading Volvo A35's and A40's in two passes usually with I think a 9 yard bucket. The last picture was shortly after it finished digging an underpass on the Whitemud Freeway on the south side of Edmonton my first time encountering 'Big Orange'.
245dlc
Senior Member
My dad gave me some of his photos from when he was a young engineer working at an Asbestos mine in Northern British Columbia the first few photos are of a small Placer Gold operation where a home made winching device dragged gravel on to a sluice box where water from a creek would wash the gravel. They also used a large monitor to wash down the banks and had a dozer to help with the mine. Dad said they mostly produced large nuggets for making jewlery unlike what you see on Discovery Channel.
245dlc
Senior Member
Some pictures of the Cassiar Asbestos mining operation high up in the mountains this is of course all shut down now by my dad always talks fondly of it and no he doesn't have any respiratory problems, he said the guys that worked in the screening house were exposed to the fine asbestos fibers as that's where the ore was broken up and screened to size. So here the blaster is preparing for another blast.
