Mini equipment...

[Deadwood]

I worked for a company called Cianbro Corp once. A huge company on the east coast, not a bad company to work for, just non-Union. In any case they lost a whole 100 ton crane out on a barge a few years ago. No one was hurt, but they decided it was cheaper to pay the environmental clean-up fee than it was to recover the crane. It's still there if you are looking for a soggy crane.

Also a few years ago, a company working at the Bath Iron Works Shipyard toppled into the river. The crane operator was close to shore and yet the poor soul never made it. Never found the body either.

A good fishing friend of mine out Bremen once lost a crane over a bridge up in Bangor working for Reed and Reed. He was an Urchin Diver and said it saved his life that day. I guess he was trapped in the cab underwater and could not see a thing. The only way he got out was to wait until the presure equalized in the cab by filling up with water, then feeling with his hand which way the bubbles were rising, and then swam for the surface. He said any other crane operator would have been killed because of panic. He was not saying this out of brvado, he was saying this because he had dived so much for Sea Urchins.

[Deadwood]

Okay it took me awhile to find this picture in my CD Files, but here it is. Taken a few years ago while the island community (12 houses) was working on having a new landing strip put in. The equipment was not much and the land was uncoperative (ledge), but for 50 bucks you can fly into Crienhaven by a Island Airlines.

Oh one more thing. Did you know that there is a special grass seed they use to make grass landing strips safer to land on? It's true!


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[scsmith42]

Travis - you've piqued my curiousity - what kind of seed is designed for grass airstrips?