Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

Here's a quicky blog post...just to tell a story about a set of photos from one day, one minor event on the Sea to Sky highway project. After drilling of a round of blast holes, the operator of a Tamrock Ranger 800 rock-drill was moving to a new location. The pathway to and from the drill site was really nothing more than an unimproved goat trail, high above the main access road. At one point the driller felt the road give way on his blind side..and the machine leaned over. The driller stopped the machine and got out to check his situation. It wasn't a nasty situation...but it had all the makings of one. The operator could have said nothing and tried to wiggle his way out of the predicament. Instead, he called out and asked for another opinion. It was decided that the safest thing to do was to put a heavy duty tow line from the drill to a large excavator to pull the drill away from the edge. Also because the 385 excavator was close by, we decided to use that to support the...