Today's Office

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    I loved looking at pics on this title from the old forum so let's restart it!

    The straight cut I drove the boat down is only as wide as the 14' aluminum hull. These straight cut runs through the cypress swamps were done during the old growth cypress logging days over 150 years ago. These were how they moved the giant red cypress logs with a cable attached to a train engine's drive wheels to open water then the mill.
     
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    This is not from my office today unfortunately but it's related to JMJ's post. This is across the lake from my wife's families camp in south La. To my knowledge it's an old steam locomotive used to haul old growth cypress out of the swamps. Pretty cool thing to see in the middle of a lake/swamp
     
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    Awesome! I remember them mention it being around there.

    This industry was what brought most of my French ancestry down from Canada along the Mississippi River.
     
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    image.jpeg Was working with that behemoth for the last couple days for the same company on a different jobsite. Got moved back to my bridge and finally putting the welder to work today. I'll snap pics of my office tomorrow. Nothing too high, only about 40' up, kinda boring.
     
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    The range was my office today. Beats the hell out of a windshield.
     
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    I did some structural surveying work at a yard that build oil rig platforms and leg jackets for a few years. They used to pic us up in a crane basked 150'. Made going 30' up a tree with my climber a breeze.
     
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    Funny how you become numb to stuff that scares a lot of people. My uncle was freaked out the other day when I brought him to this little cliff that I catch perch off of. It's about 20' straight down to the water. That's when I found out he's afraid of heights lol
     
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    My day/week was getting ready for this:

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    So true! Like walking through the surf with stingrays and blacktip sharks swimming around.
     
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    Coworker snuck this pic on us on the way to our vegetation assessment plots. Your's truly driving the Go-devil surface drive trying to focus on not hitting cypress knees and avoiding hanging paper wasp nests.
     
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    Looks fun!
     
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    double post.
     
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    Working on PLCs for our metals reclaimer today...

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    John, your job makes me wanna dive head first off the building for having to do mine lol. You got one helluva sweet gig there bud!
     
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    Anything good in the cooler you're sitting on?
     
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    Office was the range today.
     
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    Unfortunately just water, Gatorade and our lunches:mad:
     
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    Yeah my field days definitely make up for any stress from the few drama queens we've got. I definitely feel very lucky getting to spend time on some of the wetlands I get to access and wildlife I get to see.
     
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