tamrock
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I was up and out the door yesterday at 4 AM yesterday morning. A mine I deal with is having issues with some drill rod and carbide rock bits I sell them, so I headed up to see what's going on. One thing they got going on is their rock is what we call harder than the hub's of hell, so that makes conditions a real bugger. Overall I do have some ideas on a solution that may help the situation. It's a tough game this hard rock mining and it ain't never cheap, because you never can estimate the conditions you will encounter in driving a drift. The one thing they got going is the rock is very competent and requires very little support and in bad ground that always require a ton more expense in ground support. It was good start to the day seeing some Elk and I could hear a turkey gobbling below when I took that picture, but couldn't spot where he was. I had a rental vehicle and I never use the rental insurance, but put it on my insurance and I left the vehicle down below the steep mine road, because everything was frozen up there and when it starts to thaw it could send boulders down on ya. It was a bit of a hike to the mine that's above timberline and the air is pretty thin up there and by the time I made it to the mine and my heart was really pounding when I made it up to the site. That's my vehicle below at the red arrow, just below the timberline. I'm getting older and I sure ain't like I was when I younger. After all that I began my trip to Nevada and headed through central Colorado and shot some pictures along the way. In the Paradox Valley I was halted by a cattle dog who was busy driving a herd a cows down the highway. He must be the old dog as there were two other younger ones running back and forth keeping the herd from deviating off course. Those dogs are sure amazing to watch. After I slowly worked my way through that holdup I headed up the valley and into the Colorado Plateau country and into Utah.
