Ziggy
Hello folks,zig here from southern Alberta.
Mini-bio.
I have been a HEO since 1978,did 5 years forestry,22 years in the hard rock mines and the rest of my time has been spent in the patch building leases and doing reclamation except for 3 1/2 years that I spent in the arctic buiding a runway and tank pad for a new gold mine and then managing a remote camp north of Rankin inlet.
I've done construction all over Alberta and pipelined a few years,just spent the summer building roads and structures for the power lines above Canmore.
I have loved running the big iron ever since i crawled on an old td crawler as a kid and got it running and couldnt shut it off.
I run allmost everything except crane and scraper,love the Cat equipment but find komatsu,hitachi and the rest of the machines have come so far now a days that they are all nice to operate.
In the mining industry I got to operate the then worlds largest loaders,dozers and rock trucks but I'm primarily a dozer,grader and hoe hand at heart.
So this looks like a good forum to add to my list of sites I visit and it looks like a wealth of information is on here.
I have lots of videos and pics of work as I allways carry my camera and may post the links later but as a noob I dont want to come across as a spammer.
Zig
