A bunch of old pictures I scanned - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

BrianHay · 10-15-2007, 01:10 PM

I found a stack of old pictures and scanned them all. Here is a link to the web album There is hundred stories behind the pictures so if anyone wants a story/details on a picture....

**Cole** · 10-15-2007, 03:41 PM

Cool Pics, thanks for sharing!

BrianHay · 10-15-2007, 04:13 PM

Thanks for commenting! Knowing that someone enjoyed checking them out makes it worth while posting them

mckellarman · 06-16-2008, 01:16 PM

I know I'm diggin up an old post here but... WOW those arctic pics are amazing. I've always wanted to go up there. Did you go to work ?

firemike · 06-16-2008, 04:21 PM

Hey Brian!

I missed the pics the first time, very cool! (No pun intended) The arctic ones are excellent, just one question, Why was Al "flooding" the lake ice by augering through it? To make thicker ice?

MALCO.New.York · 06-16-2008, 04:24 PM

I do recall the Stolen Truck Deal!

**Ed the Roofer** · 06-16-2008, 04:28 PM

Really cool Arctic Pictures.

Isn't Inuvik one of the places that those Ice Truckers drive to?

Why wasn't there more fish pictures?

Ed

BrianHay · 06-16-2008, 09:42 PM

Glad you dug it up. That's one nice thing about a forum, the conversation never has to die. Even if it's an old post doesn't mater if someone has something new to add to it.
Yes, went up there to work. I was hired as a cat operator but the machine I was hired to operate went down for the season while I was on my way up. Turned out great for me because I got to do lots of different things throughout the Mackenzie delta and all the way up past Tuktoyaktuk.

The first thing I got to do was run an auger truck (1 ton with a hydraulic auger mounted on it) on Parsons lake South East of Tuk. We would punch a hole and then flood the ice to make it thicker for the Seismic crews that were coming. I lost a lot of my pictures, wish I still had them. I had great shots of our sleigh camps and lots of other cool stuff.

I have only seen one episode of ice road truckers and in that one they were a long ways South East hauling to the mines. When I flew over where they were on my way back down South I had just pulled sleigh trains in off the tundra on the Mackenzie river a few days before. It was well into spring and everything was plush green where they were. I don't know if they have made any episodes up in the Arctic?

I missed out on a great fishing adventure, left to soon. The locals up in Tuk invited me to go whale hunting with them. When the ice goes out the delta fills with wales and they still hunt them in their traditional way....or at least they did back then, don't know if they still do now.