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Hey Dab and Dave .

Yes , they said the road was packed leaving Calgary . Think they stopped in Canmore and now onto Windemere Lake . Smokehouse 93 eh ? I'll tell them about it ! :cool:
 
mmcmdl said:
Yes , they said the road was packed leaving Calgary . Think they stopped in Canmore and now onto Windemere Lake . Smokehouse 93 eh ? I'll tell them about it ! :cool:
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I came back from a job in lake Louise, passed the park gates around 12.30 today (going east), I've never seen it lined up at the gates like that (going into the park), another few minutes down the road it was like rush hour (going west). Everyone headed to the mountains today I guess

Yea smokehouse 93, excellent smoked meats, right on 93 when going into invermere, hard to miss
 
mmcmdl said:
How do you find a job in a dream place like LL ? :) Beautiful place .
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Just have to be here, and be willing to bid on these jobs (or work for someone who is). Places like LL, Banff, Canmore, Waterton, etc. dont normally have the manpower or in my case, the type of skilled trade locally, often, especially on larger jobs, the trades are from Calgary or further. They are nice jobs so long as they dont stretch out to long, you are still away from home, living in a hotel. You also run out of touristy type activities pretty quickly, there is a limited amount of things you can or want to do after working a full day, 3 hour hikes are not normally one of them, and there is often not much else.

I also often get sent out there for the absurd jobs, the "install these 3 20ft long 500lb beams on the 3rd floor of a 80 year old wood structure down a hallway full of shoring posts supporting the roof using 3 chain falls a come along, without cutting any holes for your rigging, then weld a clip on without burning the building down", specialty stuff even within the trade

this was LL, install 1" thick ss plates between 400-700lbs ea, me an an apprentice, 2 days to move the 12 plates 200 feet through the site, another 2 days to clean anchors and install plates, a job that was given to us by another steel company that couldn't do the install. Who puts 1" plate around a hot tub ? Rich touristy spots i guess

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phaxtris said:
Just have to be here, and be willing to bid on these jobs (or work for someone who is). Places like LL, Banff, Canmore, Waterton, etc. dont normally have the manpower or in my case, the type of skilled trade locally, often, especially on larger jobs, the trades are from Calgary or further. They are nice jobs so long as they dont stretch out to long, you are still away from home, living in a hotel. You also run out of touristy type activities pretty quickly, there is a limited amount of things you can or want to do after working a full day, 3 hour hikes are not normally one of them, and there is often not much else.

I also often get sent out there for the absurd jobs, the "install these 3 20ft long 500lb beams on the 3rd floor of a 80 year old wood structure down a hallway full of shoring posts supporting the roof using 3 chain falls a come along, without cutting any holes for your rigging, then weld a clip on without burning the building down", specialty stuff even within the trade

this was LL, install 1" thick ss plates between 400-700lbs ea, me an an apprentice, 2 days to move the 12 plates 200 feet through the site, another 2 days to clean anchors and install plates, a job that was given to us by another steel company that couldn't do the install. Who puts 1" plate around a hot tub ? Rich touristy spots i guess

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One of my BC trips was a bridge section, three trucks, the sections were offloaded in a residential neighborhood. They had scaffolding setup, with landing spots for wheels? casters? I don't know the term, but they let the bridge section roll across to the next landing. They had no way to get cranes or machinery to the other side

And this was just for pedestrians to walk across
 
phaxtris said:
Just have to be here, and be willing to bid on these jobs (or work for someone who is). Places like LL, Banff, Canmore, Waterton, etc.
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All beautiful places , I've been to them all . I heard Jasper is rebuilding also . Was there when it burned up , what a shame . :(
 
mmcmdl said:
All beautiful places , I've been to them all . I heard Jasper is rebuilding also . Was there when it burned up , what a shame . :(
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ive never been, I was thinking of flying up there one day, see if i can bum a ride into town from the airport. I haven't heard of any work up there yet, at least for my trade, we will see, maybe, it takes a long time for some of that stuff to even get to the point of going out for tender.

mmcmdl said:
They passed this by this morning . They ate at some Bavarian place last night , and are going to check 93 today .
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Im sure they wont be disappointed! Brad's food is excellent.

Chicken lights said:
One of my BC trips was a bridge section, three trucks, the sections were offloaded in a residential neighborhood. They had scaffolding setup, with landing spots for wheels? casters? I don't know the term, but they let the bridge section roll across to the next landing. They had no way to get cranes or machinery to the other side

And this was just for pedestrians to walk across
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ive worked on a few different ped bridges here in calgary......boy the money they can spend on a ped bridge is insane, the last one i worked on was 15million....right next to a cross walk that had very little use....why not i guess
 
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