What Line Of Work Are You In

[barryk]

I have owned & operated a full time taxidermy studio for the past 25 years. So if you might need some taxidermy work done, keep us in mind.

Checked out your mounts.....very nice work.

 

[Deleted member 15212]

no ways you'd catch me up that high in one of those...

haha not the tower (the one that looks like a giant T)! with the truck cranes and crawlers, the cab isn't too high off the ground. in the bottom picture, you can see just above the white pickup truck and to the left of the big red X the cab and the door half way open.

here is a video of a job I was on some time ago... we were actually in the upper yard off loading from rail cars all the pieces for the big red crane, mammoet PTC ringer 1600 I believe was the model. that was an experience working with one of the biggest cranes I might ever see in my life! we then dismantled and loaded back on rail cars after! oh and the coke drums were 550k pounds taken to about 100 feet I believe... I cant fully remember the radius.

 

[PeteG]

haha not the tower (the one that looks like a giant T)! with the truck cranes and crawlers, the cab isn't too high off the ground. in the bottom picture, you can see just above the white pickup truck and to the left of the big red X the cab and the door half way open.

here is a video of a job I was on some time ago... we were actually in the upper yard off loading from rail cars all the pieces for the big red crane, mammoet PTC ringer 1600 I believe was the model. that was an experience working with one of the biggest cranes I might ever see in my life! we then dismantled and loaded back on rail cars after! oh and the coke drums were 550k pounds taken to about 100 feet I believe... I cant fully remember the radius.

Jeez, you guys work fast!

Pretty cool video of the operation there.

 

[spike.t]

I started to say I was a pornstar..... Then I remembered my audience.... LOL...

yeah @BWH it would be tough performing in front of this lot.......

 

[Panielsen]

I am a certified welding inspector (CWI) and an ASNT Level III in Phased Array Ultrasonic Examination, Magnetic Particle Examination, and soon to be Visual Examination. I was specializing in building Mid-Stream Gas Plants, but since retired myself from doing that. In a previous life I spent 16 years in the US Army and Guard. I was a SGT. and Howitzer Crew Section Chief on an M109 self propelled howitzer in 155mm. I was deployed as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2004, and spent a year doing that. If I were younger, in better shape, and could take the pay cut, I would have tried to become a PH. It is funny how the older we get, the clearer our path should have been, Lol... In any case, now just trying to bag my first Buff this year, and begin the planning and penny pinching for elephant!

 

[Pondoro]

I am an ex-army officer, Cavalry (Captain), tank commander etc.

After studies in engineering I have worked in the oil business for some 20 + years, presently as a shift manager on an offshore oil rig in the North Sea....production platform producing some 75.000 barrels/d and 10 million standard cubes of natural gas/d. I have been in and out of the Army up to 2005 in various commisions...as a reserve officer.

But my mind is very occupied with african hunting...

 

[Heym 88]

Retired Firefighter 28 years. Retired as a Battalion Chief.
DEA Contractor for Clandestine Drug Labs for one year, now Drug Enforcement Contractor for South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. If you guys make drugs, I WILL come see you!!

 

[nchungryhunter]

This is interesting...

I am an offshore navigation technician for a oil and gas exploration (seismic for those of you who work in oil and gas) company.

 

[bluey]

This is interesting...

I am an offshore navigation technician for a oil and gas exploration (seismic for those of you who work in oil and gas) company.

soooo , your one of them blokes that I always argue with when ya in the fishing boats way ,

 

[nchungryhunter]

Yep you caught me thats us

 

[bluey]

which ocean , do take over at present .....

 

[nchungryhunter]

Currently pissing off fishermen off Colombia, then down to Brazil. Also have worked in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

 

[bluey]

ha ha h a , that's a good place to be ,
we will be friends forever .......

 

[nchungryhunter]

Haha sounds good bluey!

 

[boldo 42]

Underground jumbo operator in australia, works pretty tight at the moment so i'm doing what i can get my hands on.

 

[bluey]

while its quiet , you should be a professional chital deer hunter .....

 

[boldo 42]

while its quiet , you should be a professional chital deer hunter .....

Thanks bluey , we do a bit of cull work for surrounding properties but it's very dry up here , very little water and the chital have spread right out , coming into summer as well.

 

[bluey]

both times ive been up there , they are every where , like pidgeons at a train station ....
the properties my brother gets us on , have culled around 6,000 deer this year .
im told hooooge amounts of chital have been thinned right out in the sorrounding areas

 

[boldo 42]

both times ive been up there , they are every where , like pidgeons at a train station ....
the properties my brother gets us on , have culled around 6,000 deer this year .
im told hooooge amounts of chital have been thinned right out in the sorrounding areas

Yeah , that would proberly be right , they have been copping a hiding this year because of the drought .

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Petroleum Engineer with a major US oil company in Lagos, Nigeria. Life was better with $100 oil, but no complaints right now. Living in Lagos makes for relatively short and cheaper flights to southern Africa, so taking advantage of that all I can. Might even look at a hunt or two closer to Nigeria, such as Benin or Cameroon.