R. French Transport truck, southwest of Oungre, SK. yesterday.
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It’s gonna take a serious amount of power to get that out of there.
The wheel bearings will definitely need repacking.
That driver’s sphincter needs repacking.
Either that or it’s sucking slough water…
Got snorkel?
Diver down!
It’s not supposed to be like that… is it?
Fred @ 1:06 FTW!
(Jesus, my ribs hurt.)
Not sure how this came to be but driver should thank |insert deity/| the truck didn’t roll over in the bargain.
This is very strong evidence that the drought caused by heating of the atmosphere is over.
The guy shouldn’t be allowed to watch “Ice Road Truckers” until after Christmas.
Ya know it’s bad when you look out the driver (or passenger) window and the tanker is THERE!
Is that that global warming stuff snow again ?
That looks like alkali to boot! I spent a lot of time in the early 70’s on a survey crew in the Oungre area. If I remember right there was no shortage of alkali. Should be fun getting that out of there. Reminds me of a semi I seen in a slough by Brooks a couple of years back.
The French can’t drive.
Another reason the west supports them with provincial welfare, to keep them off the roads as much as humanly possible. Another call to Ban French Fries from all Canadian public buildings!
It isn’t going to be easy to put the chains on that puppy
Pump it out to a new tanker on the road, that’ll float the tank, put air bags under the cab, skates on the front wheels, erect a sail and it’s Ice Road Sailing.
This is sad. I had a buddy killed like that.
Is that a Saskatchewan version of a runaway lane? 🙂
Sorry about your friend a@c…
Night 99:
One thing I’ve learned from watching baseball – if a guy’s last name is “Black”, he’s almost certainly white; if his last name is “White”, he’s almost certainly black.
Similarly, if a guy’s last name is “French”, he’s probably English.
Are you sure he’s not refuelling the SK submarine fleet?
betcha he’s got the worst case of shrivel/dick and raisin/bag in the world
Ice Water Truckers
That’s the end result of all the flooding here in south east sask.If you slide off an icy road you just don’t end up in the ditch,you end up in four or five feet of water.There are still whole sections of land and many roads still under water from last springs flooding.!!
This is sad. I had a buddy killed like that.
Posted by: a@c at November 19, 2011 3:06 PM
Kate, apologize to a@c or risk finding youself in front of the HRC for almost causing offence.
Now, a question: The driver, did she get wet?
All kidding aside…trucking is a dangerous job.
All kinds of kooks to contend with on the road and all kinds of weather.
I remember my brother-in-law telling me (he trucked once upon a time in Northern Alberta)that his biggest fear was a mechanical breakdown and he’d have to burn the tires off the rig to keep from freezing to death. Others had resorted to that to survive.
KevinB >
How true. However I like to kick the French in the noids at any opportunity ever since I grew up and realized what a retarded self interested culture they actually are.
The Glengarrian >
Something I could never understand about allot of these Northern ice road truckers is why they wouldn’t carry even the basics of survival beyond mandatory road flares and a first aid kit in their cabs. Ya know, warm blankets, some light, small propane stove, food & water, plus a little camping heater to get you by for 48 hours or more.
Really it can all fit in a small carry duffel, mines in my pickup 24/7 unless I’m on a long haul summer bike tour, then it fits in a saddle bag. Just say’n. And yes also in my early oilfield carrier I drove tractor trailer through the Rocky Mountain and Northern back roads in all seasons, with extra supplies, even a rifle in the passenger seat back in those days when no one gave a crap about my safety as much as they say they do today.
Glengarrian: “Is that a Saskatchewan version of a runaway lane?“. I don’t care, now that’s funny!
The sign said submerging traffic ahead
A great candidate for the Flaman “stuck in the muck” contest.
I was working near Oungre last week. Those tankers are hauling Bakken oil. There’s no transmission line near that field, so it’s a real goldmine for trucking companies. The company I work for hauls oil to another site, over 100 kms away. The truck traffic has some of the locals a bit annoyed.
I hope the driver didn’t have to stand outside with wet clothes. It was brutally cold the last couple of days. Believe it or not, this will be called a spill, and will require an environmental assessment.
Does anyone know if this happened during the whiteout on 6 November or the next day on the ice?
We saw a number of semis in the ditch along the Trans-Canada between Brandon and Moose Jaw on 7 November.
I think it happened yesterday or thereabouts.
Flash flood? I thought Sask only got them in the spring. ~;)
coach, if that’s a spill they better hurry up and get the oil sucker-upper barge out there… before the oil freezes into little hockey pucks and gets blown all over the lake by the wind.
Enviro assessment will read “Yep, that there’s a truck in the water.”
For several years R. French would send there trucks to work on the ice roads in NWT. I’ve even seen them at the Jericho diamond mine in Nunavut, just 18 Kim’s south of the Arctic Circle. All those years of running across frozen lakes with 50,000 liters of fuel on behind and they never once put one through the ice and this happens to them not a stone’s through from home.
Yikes.
Have a well drilling at Oungre right now
There’s thousands of acres still under water in the southeast left over from spring flooding.
There are plenty of roads still under water in those parts. They just finished raising a railway grade at Lampman, north of Estevan. The standing water is going to make it interesting next spring. There are also quite a few oil wells and battery sites under water.
I wouldn’t recommend camping below Rafferty Dam next spring.
Kate said: “There’s thousands of acres still under water in the southeast left over from spring flooding.”
That sounds like awesome fun. Couple months ago you mentioned it was a good year for the mosquito crop. Thousands of acres of ice probably isn’t that much of an improvement eh?
On the bright side, y’all will be able to play Hans Brinker for miles and miles and miles. Saskatchewan, new speed skating capital of the world! Don’t trip on the wire fence.
Somehow I can’t stop imagining Bugs Bunny climbing out of the cab, looking at a map and saying “Guess I should have turned left at Alberguerque”
Don’t you know – he’s on the road!! That’s just the water level in Oungre right now. Too bad he didn’t have an air intake above water level or he’d still be trucking. lol
I know that truck, have seen it around at various Cresent Point batteries. The owner of the trucking company I know him, gotta feel tough about that, hope it was not loaded with salt water or emultion at the time!
“Truck Got Stuck” is (in an obtuse way) is a perfect metaphor for the financial bog that southern Europe finds itself mired in. Hint: The Hutterites are the Germans.
It’s gonna take a serious amount of power to get that out of there.
The wheel bearings will definitely need repacking.
That driver’s sphincter needs repacking.
Either that or it’s sucking slough water…
Got snorkel?
Diver down!
It’s not supposed to be like that… is it?
Fred @ 1:06 FTW!
(Jesus, my ribs hurt.)
Not sure how this came to be but driver should thank |insert deity/| the truck didn’t roll over in the bargain.
This is very strong evidence that the drought caused by heating of the atmosphere is over.
The guy shouldn’t be allowed to watch “Ice Road Truckers” until after Christmas.
Ya know it’s bad when you look out the driver (or passenger) window and the tanker is THERE!
Is that that global warming stuff snow again ?
That looks like alkali to boot! I spent a lot of time in the early 70’s on a survey crew in the Oungre area. If I remember right there was no shortage of alkali. Should be fun getting that out of there. Reminds me of a semi I seen in a slough by Brooks a couple of years back.
The French can’t drive.
Another reason the west supports them with provincial welfare, to keep them off the roads as much as humanly possible. Another call to Ban French Fries from all Canadian public buildings!
It isn’t going to be easy to put the chains on that puppy
Pump it out to a new tanker on the road, that’ll float the tank, put air bags under the cab, skates on the front wheels, erect a sail and it’s Ice Road Sailing.
This is sad. I had a buddy killed like that.
Is that a Saskatchewan version of a runaway lane? 🙂
Sorry about your friend a@c…
Night 99:
One thing I’ve learned from watching baseball – if a guy’s last name is “Black”, he’s almost certainly white; if his last name is “White”, he’s almost certainly black.
Similarly, if a guy’s last name is “French”, he’s probably English.
Are you sure he’s not refuelling the SK submarine fleet?
betcha he’s got the worst case of shrivel/dick and raisin/bag in the world
Ice Water Truckers
That’s the end result of all the flooding here in south east sask.If you slide off an icy road you just don’t end up in the ditch,you end up in four or five feet of water.There are still whole sections of land and many roads still under water from last springs flooding.!!
This is sad. I had a buddy killed like that.
Posted by: a@c at November 19, 2011 3:06 PM
Kate, apologize to a@c or risk finding youself in front of the HRC for almost causing offence.
Now, a question: The driver, did she get wet?
All kidding aside…trucking is a dangerous job.
All kinds of kooks to contend with on the road and all kinds of weather.
I remember my brother-in-law telling me (he trucked once upon a time in Northern Alberta)that his biggest fear was a mechanical breakdown and he’d have to burn the tires off the rig to keep from freezing to death. Others had resorted to that to survive.
KevinB >
How true. However I like to kick the French in the noids at any opportunity ever since I grew up and realized what a retarded self interested culture they actually are.
The Glengarrian >
Something I could never understand about allot of these Northern ice road truckers is why they wouldn’t carry even the basics of survival beyond mandatory road flares and a first aid kit in their cabs. Ya know, warm blankets, some light, small propane stove, food & water, plus a little camping heater to get you by for 48 hours or more.
Really it can all fit in a small carry duffel, mines in my pickup 24/7 unless I’m on a long haul summer bike tour, then it fits in a saddle bag. Just say’n. And yes also in my early oilfield carrier I drove tractor trailer through the Rocky Mountain and Northern back roads in all seasons, with extra supplies, even a rifle in the passenger seat back in those days when no one gave a crap about my safety as much as they say they do today.
Perhaps Cord Lund could lend a hand…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM
Glengarrian: “Is that a Saskatchewan version of a runaway lane?“. I don’t care, now that’s funny!
The sign said submerging traffic ahead
A great candidate for the Flaman “stuck in the muck” contest.
I was working near Oungre last week. Those tankers are hauling Bakken oil. There’s no transmission line near that field, so it’s a real goldmine for trucking companies. The company I work for hauls oil to another site, over 100 kms away. The truck traffic has some of the locals a bit annoyed.
I hope the driver didn’t have to stand outside with wet clothes. It was brutally cold the last couple of days. Believe it or not, this will be called a spill, and will require an environmental assessment.
Does anyone know if this happened during the whiteout on 6 November or the next day on the ice?
We saw a number of semis in the ditch along the Trans-Canada between Brandon and Moose Jaw on 7 November.
I think it happened yesterday or thereabouts.
Flash flood? I thought Sask only got them in the spring. ~;)
coach, if that’s a spill they better hurry up and get the oil sucker-upper barge out there… before the oil freezes into little hockey pucks and gets blown all over the lake by the wind.
Enviro assessment will read “Yep, that there’s a truck in the water.”
For several years R. French would send there trucks to work on the ice roads in NWT. I’ve even seen them at the Jericho diamond mine in Nunavut, just 18 Kim’s south of the Arctic Circle. All those years of running across frozen lakes with 50,000 liters of fuel on behind and they never once put one through the ice and this happens to them not a stone’s through from home.
Yikes.
Have a well drilling at Oungre right now
There’s thousands of acres still under water in the southeast left over from spring flooding.
There are plenty of roads still under water in those parts. They just finished raising a railway grade at Lampman, north of Estevan. The standing water is going to make it interesting next spring. There are also quite a few oil wells and battery sites under water.
I wouldn’t recommend camping below Rafferty Dam next spring.
Kate said: “There’s thousands of acres still under water in the southeast left over from spring flooding.”
That sounds like awesome fun. Couple months ago you mentioned it was a good year for the mosquito crop. Thousands of acres of ice probably isn’t that much of an improvement eh?
On the bright side, y’all will be able to play Hans Brinker for miles and miles and miles. Saskatchewan, new speed skating capital of the world! Don’t trip on the wire fence.
Somehow I can’t stop imagining Bugs Bunny climbing out of the cab, looking at a map and saying “Guess I should have turned left at Alberguerque”
Don’t you know – he’s on the road!! That’s just the water level in Oungre right now. Too bad he didn’t have an air intake above water level or he’d still be trucking. lol
I know that truck, have seen it around at various Cresent Point batteries. The owner of the trucking company I know him, gotta feel tough about that, hope it was not loaded with salt water or emultion at the time!
“Truck Got Stuck” is (in an obtuse way) is a perfect metaphor for the financial bog that southern Europe finds itself mired in. Hint: The Hutterites are the Germans.