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[MANCID RILKO]

Lots of sketchy jobs LOL

 

[Frood]

I worked this range by my lonesome...

it was sketchy driving but sketchy getting out too for a piss.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

Those flat tops

 

[MANCID RILKO]

beautiful

 

[Frood]

I worked all elevations... 50 or more kilometres from steady phone reception or any uhf chatter. Had to save myself a few times.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

LOL satellite phones are for pussies

 

[Frood]

Skid steer with a forestry pack and a kitted up landcruiser with a 400 litre diesel tank were my specialty. I would get dropped off where the float could get to, then retrace my work and start again... sometimes the track was gone when I cleared the vegetarian, and I'd have to spend half a day winching old growth logs and filling in 3 metre crevices to proceed.

 

[Frood]

*vegetation

 

[Frood]

So many times a shoulder would start shifting beneath me and I'd have to gun it backwards or die.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

You could work with the illegal gold miners in the Amazon

 

[Frood]

Probably

 

[Frood]

The deadliest portion of the day was walking the 1-3 kilometers of mountainbtrack to retrieve the landcruiser to either refuel, fix a fault, or try to put a thrown track back on by myself with the two winches. Every 20-50 feet there was something deadly underfoot.

 

[Frood]

Usually baby browns but often big arse angry carpet pythons and stinging bushes.

 

[Frood]

I miss that job and that boss misses me.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

A friend worked in Mato Grosso (a state with lots of wild areas) and he used to drive the "forest cleaners"

 

[MANCID RILKO]

Basically two gigantic front loaders with huge chains tied between them

 

[MANCID RILKO]

They'd clean a whole 100-meter wide area

 

[MANCID RILKO]

So many animals would come out of there running

 

[Ivor Nissan]

I'm back HOMOS! Its too hot so Ive retreated back to the house. How tall were the trees they clear?

 

[MANCID RILKO]

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[MANCID RILKO]

For you to be able to destroy that much native vegetation these days, you must have planted twice as much

 

[MANCID RILKO]

Rich farmers are the only ones who can afford that

 

[Frood]

"Forest Cleaners"... lol... I'd get dropped off with mulcher head attached, a blade, 4 in 1 bucket, hydraulic roller head, and have to drive back and forth incrementally to fetch what I needed... then when the job was inally finished (25-75 kilometers) have to go back and forth to get them all out to the Park gates.

 

[Ivor Nissan]

Ours is all on mouthains so we have to clear it the old fashioned way.

 

[Ivor Nissan]

14 people were killed here 2 years ago in a flash flood because of the shit left over from forestry clearing.

 

[Frood]

Only then could we get the dozers in... which then allowed the grader in, which then allowed the dogs in for gravel and then a large roller.

 

[Ivor Nissan]

logs were mowing through peoples houses with no warming.

 

[MANCID RILKO]

@Ivor Nissan you have to gnaw them with your teeth?

 

[Ivor Nissan]

logs were mowing through peoples houses with no warning.

 

[Frood]

I cleared up those log jams and mudslides, Igor.