Went down a big hole yesterday

"Wacko" (wacko--) 06/12/2019 at 20:10 • Filed to: None

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For once I didn’t have to wear my hard hat and safety gear just to drive our Rav4. I work for canada’s Largest open pit gold mine. Everything is big here. We have 32 240 ton dump trucks.

These things are big. They make semis look tiny.

I had to go down and replace a network card in the remote cabin of one of our loaders.

Wacko > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 20:14

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Here is a view from a flyover I did 2 weeks ago.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 20:15

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That’s a beautiful sight

MM54 > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 20:21

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That’s quite a hole

Wacko > MM54 06/12/2019 at 20:47

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I think its 3 Kms long by 1 km wide

I think it’s about 1/2 km deep.

Merfthemadmauler > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 21:23

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I have to assume you are not an environmentalist.

Cash Rewards > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 23:15

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Wacko > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/12/2019 at 23:37

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We mostly use GM then F ords even A few Tacomas, but not one company truck is a RAM/Dodge.

Wacko > Merfthemadmauler 06/12/2019 at 23:48

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Cause I work for a Gold M ine?

Before that I worked  for an Insurance Company, does that make me a satanist?

WRXasaurus > Wacko 06/12/2019 at 23:50

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Nice to see there is a fellow miner on here. I work in a  large open pit iron ore mine in the northern Minnesota Iron Range.  We have over 50 240 ton trucks.  

Merfthemadmauler > Wacko 06/13/2019 at 00:01

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I don’t know you so my assumption based on the pictures my well be incorrect. If so I apologies.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Wacko 06/13/2019 at 00:08

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Partly because your company probably doesn’t want to spend more on maintenance than the actual truck is worth on a weekly basis.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Wacko 06/13/2019 at 00:47

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I’m confused, I don’t see Jezza blowing up a caravan anywhere?? 

Wacko > WRXasaurus 06/13/2019 at 08:18

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Shit that’s a lot of trucks

One of our 240s had a blowout on a inner rear tire  last month as a pickup was passing near it. It blew out all the windows on the pickup

WRXasaurus > Wacko 06/14/2019 at 21:29

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We haven't had that happen since I was hired but a nearby mine rolled at 793 recently. No one was injured thankfully.