NO Reproduction in Whole or in Part, on ANY, and ALL of my Pages,
 Including Text and Pictures,
 May be made, without the express Written Permission
 of Web Editor, Doug Gent
© 2015

 

HEAVY ROUTE
MICROWAVE SYSTEM
CHAPTER #6

 
 

Company Cat hauling Spryte snowcat
across river,
ready for winter
 

I have the actual site log for the site,
 which contains many of the printable stories.
  Some others are best left unprintable, right Brian??

         One story that keeps cropping up, is my “sinking” of a Tucker Sno-cat, in the lake up behind the radio site.  Actually it all started very innocently a week earlier.  My 2nd level, Dave Robinson came to the site on an inspection / visit, and wanted a tour of the area, so away we went over the lake and up into the hills.  The next week my friend from Saskatchewan showed up, so I did the same for him, only in 1 week the ice had melted under the snow, and unknown to me was very thin.  Needless to say the machine broke thru the ice, about 15’ from the edge, and there it stayed, sunk about 3’ in the slush.   We all then had to walk about 5 miles down the hill to the truck.  Next week we pulled the machine out with a huge come-along borrowed from BC Hydro.  No more tours after that!

Tucker in Lake above Microwave Site
Spring 1974

We tied the come-along to a tree on the right side
in the picture above

Return to my BC History Index Page


 
NEXT PAGEReturn to Home Page


      Created by Doug Gent
Copyright © 2015

All Rights Reserved