While in Antarctica, people truly try to make the most out of the resources that we have on station. There is an art show, film festival, & Christmas gifts that use, and reuse, materials around town. Then there are the vehicles we drive. I assume you have seen some of the early photos of what I have been driving, but the trucks used for ship-offload are truly classic. Two of our drivers, J and Michael, will assist with the ship-offload once it docks with next years' cargo. They will drive everyday of 12 hours each day until the ship is unloaded. They are on a crew of 22 drivers who will unload around the clock. The first picture is of J driving one of the 50's model trucks they keep in good repair to keep trucking along year after year! With as few parts and products available to us, it is amazing that the VMF (Vehicle Maintainence Facility) can do such a great job of pulling things together!
I also know there is at least one John Deere fan in the blog audience who might appreciate the picture of this tractor driving around town the other day! Between the deltas, trucks, the pickles (I'll have to get a picture of one of those soon), the tractors, ski doos, tracked vehicles, vans, loaders, challengers (to pull vehicles out of the snow), forklifts, and Ivan the Terra Bus, there is little room for surprise when some new contraption pulls up along side me on the road. It all make for an interesting parking lot around lunch time!
While in Antarctica, people truly try to make the most out of the resources that we have on station. There is an art show, film festival, & Christmas gifts that use, and reuse, materials around town. Then there are the vehicles we drive. I assume you have seen some of the early photos of what I have been driving, but the trucks used for ship-offload are truly classic. Two of our drivers, J and Michael, will assist with the ship-offload once it docks with next years' cargo. They will drive everyday of 12 hours each day until the ship is unloaded. They are on a crew of 22 drivers who will unload around the clock. The first picture is of J driving one of the 50's model trucks they keep in good repair to keep trucking along year after year! With as few parts and products available to us, it is amazing that the VMF (Vehicle Maintainence Facility) can do such a great job of pulling things together!
I also know there is at least one John Deere fan in the blog audience who might appreciate the picture of this tractor driving around town the other day! Between the deltas, trucks, the pickles (I'll have to get a picture of one of those soon), the tractors, ski doos, tracked vehicles, vans, loaders, challengers (to pull vehicles out of the snow), forklifts, and Ivan the Terra Bus, there is little room for surprise when some new contraption pulls up along side me on the road. It all make for an interesting parking lot around lunch time!
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