Posted by Bruce Hopf on June 04, 2008 at 20:57:35 from (216.46.133.10):
In Reply to: OT Ice Road Truckers posted by Jerry Cent. on June 04, 2008 at 14:18:37:
I had an Uncle that used to drive Caterpillars, at night on the ice up in Tuktiuktuk, clearing a road on the ice to the oil rigs, for the trucks to deliver loads in the 70s. Before he started, they had lost 2 men in 3 weeks. One went down with the Cat, and the other was gotten by the Polar Bears. After 2 weeks of driving, he hit a pressure pocket, and the Cat started down, but got hung up. As it started to go down, he bailed out of the cab, without his parka, and his radio. He said he was out 18 miles on the ice. He started walking back to camp, that he could see the lights, of the camp. He was walking, and he lost sight of the camp. He was down in a gully, and started to panic. He started to run, and got himself calmed down in a hurry. If he would have kept running, his lungs would have froze. He was able to follow the scratch marks on the ice, made by the Cat. After awhile he could see the lights of the camp again. The camp foreman was very sorry that my Uncle walked back to camp. He kept looking out the window, and could see the lights of the Cat, so he figured that everything was OK. He looked out the window again, as my Uncle walked in the door, and the foreman was really shocked with what had happened. After that, my Uncle had his parka tied to him with a radio in his pocket, and had the cab door just a jar, in case that happened again. He lasted until spring, and went back home to his farm, for seeding. The following winters, he drove snowplows, But this time it was on land. Bruce.
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