Another surveyor I know who also happens to be a neighbor was hit by a chopper rotor in the head while scrambling off the skid. He said he was wearing a hard hat which was completely destroyed, but miraculously he survived. Granted he is one tough sob former marine.?ÿ
In Florida the wild hogs are more dangerous than the alligators. Water Moccasins can be a nuisance too. The gators and snakes can be dealt with. Soon as a hog sees you (If there is one you can bet there are more nearby) it wants to kill and eat you right now.?ÿ???? ?ÿ
I'll take dodgy Helo rides with green blade tips over submerged unknown alligators.?ÿ Both over my ex wife.?ÿ 😛
Wow, haven't thought about that in a while.?ÿ It's been a few years since I've noticed the pilot scrubbing the green off?ÿthe tail rotor before returning to camp.?ÿ ?????ÿ
In Florida the wild hogs are more dangerous than the alligators. Water Moccasins can be a nuisance too. The gators and snakes can be dealt with. Soon as a hog sees you (If there is one you can bet there are more nearby) it wants to kill and eat you right now.?ÿ???? ?ÿ
Maybe pastels irritate them.
Another surveyor I know who also happens to be a neighbor was hit by a chopper rotor in the head while scrambling off the skid. He said he was wearing a hard hat which was completely destroyed, but miraculously he survived. Granted he is one tough sob former marine.?ÿ
That was quite a day for CL.?ÿ ?ÿHe is a friend and former employee, great surveyor and tough guy.?ÿ I remember visiting him in the hospital after that happened and he wanted to get a cigarette so bad.?ÿ Found a way to take him out on a walk in his gown and IV trolley and we got into a allowed smoking area (obviously a while ago).?ÿ Got back to room and nurse ratchet was chewing our tails out about the health hazards of smoking.?ÿ My only response was "lady, this guy is in a very small club of people who have been hit in the back and head by a spooled up helicopter rotor, and at this point the potential health hazards of a cigarette smoke would be statistically inconsequential to the events that have transpired in the last week, give us a break in the health hazard lecture" or something along those lines.?ÿ
Another surveyor I know who also happens to be a neighbor was hit by a chopper rotor in the head while scrambling off the skid. He said he was wearing a hard hat which was completely destroyed, but miraculously he survived. Granted he is one tough sob former marine.?ÿ
That was quite a day for CL.?ÿ ?ÿHe is a friend and former employee, great surveyor and tough guy.?ÿ I remember visiting him in the hospital after that happened and he wanted to get a cigarette so bad.?ÿ Found a way to take him out on a walk in his gown and IV trolley and we got into a allowed smoking area (obviously a while ago).?ÿ Got back to room and nurse ratchet was chewing our tails out about the health hazards of smoking.?ÿ My only response was "lady, this guy is in a very small club of people who have been hit in the back and head by a spooled up helicopter rotor, and at this point the potential health hazards of a cigarette smoke would be statistically inconsequential to the events that have transpired in the last week, give us a break in the health hazard lecture" or something along those lines.?ÿ
For a state as big as Alaska, sure is a small world. Just ran into CL at the conference and he's doing well.?ÿ
Meanwhile, from Texas:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12208848
I was doing a topo around a pond and the engineer wanted to get?ÿ a few shots on the bottom of the pond.?ÿ Well it was late autumn and there was ice, the pond was iced over.?ÿ I started out but I thought a moment, what if I fall in??ÿ Well I soon backed off and told the engineer I couldn't get the shots due to thin ice.?ÿ I'm sure the design went well.?ÿ Sometimes the engineers ask for stuff they don't really need.
