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Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:55 am
by bmc
I have pictures of ASG, somewhere in the house, from 1983 or 84 when it was on big wheels in YRB.
I'm curious to know what ever happened to Charlie-GOES, NAN and NDN. Is YFT still kicking? For the uninformed, C-FYFT was a Bell Canada repair truck in Baffin. The joke was the registration stood for Can't Fix Your Fucking Telephone.
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:03 pm
by silentivan
Its not that cold....just chilly. I tell ya though, 7ECA's are princesses when it comes to the cold. They wont start, even after having a heater under the cowling for an hour.
But CYYC summer nights are nice.
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:37 am
by xsbank
Not exactly 'bush' but all my other shots need to be scanned...
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:52 am
by auto4
Is that you're seat.....

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:06 pm
by Bronco Billy
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:07 pm
by Northern Skies
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:12 pm
by Northern Skies
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:14 pm
by C-FABH
Those photos rock! Beautiful stuff

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:17 pm
by Go Guns

agreed, gorgeous shots
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:06 pm
by sky's the limit
Try something a little different here.
This is a video I took from a helmet cam duct taped to my bucket in Yukon this past summer. The piece being moved is the fuel tank, one of the last in a drill move sequence, and this is at 7000ft on a ridge line. The wind was a very unfortunate 20-30kt crosswind, making it much harder work than usual. The camera makes the slope look totally flat, when in reality it's roughly 45 degrees.
Here's a picture of the set up, so you can have an idea of where the video takes place. Some of .'s pix are from the strip way down in the valley below.
The quality isn't the greatest, and its taken me ages to upload this thing....

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:32 pm
by lucky37
Great idea with a video STL! I've never flown in a chopper but I definitely have respect for the precision involved in work like that, especially with some big winds in the hills.
Lutselk'e evening with a sun dog visible.
Blatchford Lake Lodge.

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:45 pm
by sky's the limit
Hey Lucky,
Nice shots, I stopped in there for fuel a few years ago on my way to the Eastern Arctic, was a lot greener though....
Here's a little better video, coming back to the fuel with a bunch of chokers in the hook.

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:45 pm
by Northern Skies
Thanks guys! The nice bigger ones where I'm flying were taken by one of our fishermen, the rest were with my "new" 1970's SLR.
That's awesome STL. It doesn't look easy!
All these mountain shots bring back memories, I hope to fly in the rocks again sometime soon! Here's a set of pics from a flight in 2004. It was hazy, there were forest fires all over the coast.......
Johnstone strait
Just north of Wakeman sound
Owikeno lake
Bella Coola airport, Hagensborg
Near the Dean Channel
Pass into the Kitlope river valley
Kitlope river
I love the Kitlope river.... I want to bring a little taildragger into these gravel bars some day, they're marked on my map
Kitlope lake
Vortex in the Gardner Canal, west of Kemano landing. Would this be a waterspout on a windy day? hmmm...
Northwest of the Douglas channel
Ecstall river, south of Prince Rupert
Skeena River valley
South of Terrace
East of Kemano
A low sun, Between Machmell and Wakeman sound. I love this one

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:25 pm
by lucky37
Hey Northern Skies, great shots from Gogama! Thought I'd add a couple myself
Familiar sight??
The amazing cockpit layout of the 172.
Coming in to land.
Does the cribbing still look like this at Claw Lake?
Lawrence Lake.
NCC in flight. Oh how we tried to clean those floats...
Pulled up behind a moose on Hannover Lake.
Recognize these girls?
Or how 'bout these guys? Man, they were a blast!

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:28 pm
by Northern Skies
lucky37 wrote:Familiar sight??
These guys?
The kids fed them all of our minnow bait. Damn things kept multiplying every day! Eventually the shoreline was full of lazy ducks that wouldn't even move for the truck! Once I went to takeoff power and saw one still sitting there for a ride.
I never realized the 172 had a VOR reciever...... she never told me she was riding in style all summer!
That contraption at claw lake floated away when it flooded. Now there's a real dock down the lake a ways in the deeper water, with a trail to the cabin. The crib is still there under water waiting to get run into! Lawrence & the others still look the same, except peb north had a rebuild.
Those floats got replaced last august! They're sitting in mitch's yard. And yes, I scrubbed and scrubbbbbbed. Here are the new ones:
Yeah, D&L were the best guys I ever worked with!
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:05 pm
by Rudder Bug
Amazing guys, amazing! Think of all these kids wanting to push buttons in wide bodies...
Keep 'em coming, that's the best page ever on this thread!
RB
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:59 am
by xsbank
Ah the antique 180...best float plane I ever flew, over a 1000 hours in one, but I couldn't wait to get out of it! I could put one on like a running shoe still - never know how good we have it until its gone. Pointy spinner looks wrong, though, real 180s have that rounded thing, with the stop-drilling!
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:34 am
by Rowdy
haha and I now Know who both Northern skies and lucky37 are!!
Small world.
ERE always felt faster...
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:22 am
by Rudder Bug
Ha ha Rowdy, even funnier, Lucky is my product! LOL
Mind you Lucky?

Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:17 pm
by Northern Skies
Rowdy wrote:haha and I now Know who both Northern skies and lucky37 are!!
LOL.... we always knew who you were
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:26 pm
by Rowdy
hahah yeah I'm kind of easy to figure out.
Amazing how many people recognize my voice on freq. now too..
Name the lake and I'll buy the beer next time
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:53 pm
by Northern Skies
haha, you know I was there to help out for like, 2 weeks! But considering that it's a big-ish lake with those trees along the shoreline, I'm going to take a wild guess and say Bonar. I'm guessing the step in the dock is just outside the frame. I'm probably wrong anyway.
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:28 pm
by Rowdy
They all look the same.. and davey and I rebuilt that shoddy dock at the end of the season. Thats at Oswald lake.
KFO before I moved the rocks so we could actually use the dock.
Nem as we shut it down at the end of the season.
Sure do miss it..
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:53 pm
by Northern Skies
The first round is on me.
Re: Pic from a swamper
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:30 pm
by Over the Horn
Turn you speakers down, this is in a BN2.
