Alta_redneck wrote:
ziggy wrote:
Alta_redneck wrote:
The time I toured the Fording Mine at Elkford (is that the right name?) Their one spill area had slid and filled the creek and valley below with rock. I couldn't sleep for weeks, thinking about all the trout that was buried under all that.
Imagine sitting on a cat on the edge of a mountain and your suddenly dropping as fast as gravity will let you
That’s exactly what I was thinking when we looked over the edge of it. That piano wire was stretched so tight I think it was out of tune.
And I wasn’t comfortable jumping over those 2 foot wide cracks, we all went one at a time, and when you landed on the next level down, you just stood there seeing if you could feel the ground move. Us flatlanders must of looked like a bunch of wusses to the Fording guys.
Funny but a laser is cheaper then a wireline monitor but they wont use them because they are accurate enough that the shifter would have to shut down the dump for 4 hour intervals or untill the numbers are back in the safe zone.That would mean a longer haul and more trucks.Every single one of those dumps in all those mines has failed and slid and 95% of the time it's either lunch break or shift change when it happens.
Some slide slow and some just fuck right off but on an environmental scale each one is equivalent to a dam bursting as far as damage go's.
I've been pulled off one seconds before it failed but the whole slab just dropped 300 meters,you could still see the cat tracks where I backed off so would have been safe but when your on a 2000 meter dump it works the nerves sometimes.
They wont even look for your body if you get caught up in a massive failure.
