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Good day all,
I recently spent some time off on holidays and i wanted to share the great Alberta outdoors with you; just so all of you can see what your missing out on.
The vacation started out in the shi**er. it all started when i pulled over to adjust the straps on a quad. Now, i was hauling two quads and pulling a bumper tow trailer when my tranny decided to let go of the top two gears. once the tranny heated up and entered limp mode all the gearing i had was 4th. i managed the steep hills, stops and starts the rest of the way (approx. 250km, so ~ 150 miles) dropped the load off my poor truck and set up camp.
the next day, after limping my truck to a local tranny shop 120 miles away, i attended a turnaround at a local battery of one of my clients. i performed a few vessel internal inspections however the reboiler that was taken down that morning was still too hot to enter. Now keep in mind the forecast for this week is low to mid 30 degree celcius (which is about 90 fahrenheit, friggin hot here). So what was supposed to take a few hours lasted all day. fun. I got back to camp about 8pm and the friends had showed up and were already 3-4 deep.
Wednesday, well wednesday was a positive negative day. I had a great day of quadding ended by one of my front wheels falling off. i was jettison from my machine which decelerated from 20-25 miles an hours to zero, in exactly zero seconds. i glided softly on the side of my head over the gravel and cart wheeled into the ditch to land softly on a pile of conveniently placed rocks...
Thursday i took my machine in to the dealer that had serviced it RIGHT before i took it out. Voila, negligence causing bodily harm. I was checked out by the docs and told concussion, minor scrapes, major bruising (hip and a** have lots of meat). Luckily for me, this was the first time in 25 years riding that i wore a helmet.... how f'n lucky is that?
Anyway, too long of rant, the rest of the week was pretty tame. Busse content: SJTAC LE, Team Gemini tigerhide and RMD LE. Uncaptured: War Boar, FBM LE
Pics in no particular order:
I recently spent some time off on holidays and i wanted to share the great Alberta outdoors with you; just so all of you can see what your missing out on.
The vacation started out in the shi**er. it all started when i pulled over to adjust the straps on a quad. Now, i was hauling two quads and pulling a bumper tow trailer when my tranny decided to let go of the top two gears. once the tranny heated up and entered limp mode all the gearing i had was 4th. i managed the steep hills, stops and starts the rest of the way (approx. 250km, so ~ 150 miles) dropped the load off my poor truck and set up camp.
the next day, after limping my truck to a local tranny shop 120 miles away, i attended a turnaround at a local battery of one of my clients. i performed a few vessel internal inspections however the reboiler that was taken down that morning was still too hot to enter. Now keep in mind the forecast for this week is low to mid 30 degree celcius (which is about 90 fahrenheit, friggin hot here). So what was supposed to take a few hours lasted all day. fun. I got back to camp about 8pm and the friends had showed up and were already 3-4 deep.
Wednesday, well wednesday was a positive negative day. I had a great day of quadding ended by one of my front wheels falling off. i was jettison from my machine which decelerated from 20-25 miles an hours to zero, in exactly zero seconds. i glided softly on the side of my head over the gravel and cart wheeled into the ditch to land softly on a pile of conveniently placed rocks...
Thursday i took my machine in to the dealer that had serviced it RIGHT before i took it out. Voila, negligence causing bodily harm. I was checked out by the docs and told concussion, minor scrapes, major bruising (hip and a** have lots of meat). Luckily for me, this was the first time in 25 years riding that i wore a helmet.... how f'n lucky is that?
Anyway, too long of rant, the rest of the week was pretty tame. Busse content: SJTAC LE, Team Gemini tigerhide and RMD LE. Uncaptured: War Boar, FBM LE
Pics in no particular order:
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