Lot's of rain.
At the start of a job before the Plant is ready to mix and the oil truck is needed I would run packer on subgrade,
drive water truck on the road, haul water to the Plant, help set up the scale and the Plant, put together and
set up signs and barracades.
The oil truck is always the last equipment on the road. One night after the sign man had put up all his barracades and flare pots and
I was just driving past him heading for camp, some drunk hit me in the back.
He turned this...
Into this.
The oil was SS-1 emulsion which you would mix 50/50 with water.
or RC-30 which was very flammable.
MC-250 was used as well. More so for asphalt tack or cold mix. Also very flammable.
Then this truck was brought in and three days later when the service man and I just got it to work half decent when...
The serviceman and I were heating up the hand wand used for spraying approaches when the oil on the road which was
leaking from a badly needed to be replaced pump packing caught fire.
We used whatever we had for extinguishers on it (probably two) but it burned like crazy. These trucks are covered in over spray
and even though one tries to keep everything as clean as possible, (at that time by washing with diesel) and the fact that one is heating
flammable oil bringing it closer to it's flash point, you really have to watch this operation at all times.
Another one caught fire for me in '87 but somehow I managed to drive it ahead and put the fire out just as the extinguisher quit.
This truck was borrowed from Carmacs Construction who had a job in the area. It was small (lots of running around) but it worked good.
This truck flipped on it's side in '87 and was still working in N.W.T. in '88.
Camp on top of Bear Hill.
D8 and a D9 with U-blade pushing to the sand trap.
In November I was nightman at the cold mix plant for a week or more.
Job involved watching the highway heaters and pumping off trucks bringing in oil. Ran some Track Loader breaking lumps and loading trucks.
Left Bear Hill Nov.12.