Thread: She,s a real hotty.

Yeah, as a driller we were the only ones without air con. Dozer, digger,truck drivers all had aircon, We would regularly flog the Coca cola umbrellas from the recreation centre swimming pool area and weld them to the side of our drill rigs, to get some relief out of the sun.

ICI freebied us a shitton of grog for that Xmas (we used either 3 tonne or 15 tonne of their explosives a day, depending on overburden or ore shot), and you can imagine the scene of a dozen drillers all standing in the pool, drinking limitless grog for hours at a time, and no one getting out for a piss
I think 'wet' mines are a thing of the past now. Several haul truck drivers were renown to be a 'bottle of bundy a night' sort of guys

We would start our shift at 6am in a vain attempt to knock off before the hottest part of the day. Yes, that far away from the coast the humidity was almost zero, so made those temps almost bearable.