Finally got around to uploading some work pics from a project I did in Greenland last fall.
After posting about videogames in the random picture thread I kinda felt I had to prove I do leave the house sometimes...
Photos were taken with a phone and uploading them hasnt done them much good, but its all I got.
I decided i should arrive a few days ahead of schedule so I would have a chance to look around, and from the town of Kangerlussuaq, I took a domestic flight to a small harbor town called Illulisat. With 4500 people (and a much great numer of sled dogs) this is the 3rd biggest city in Greenland. Its main industries are oil and whaling but its also a popular place for wealthy tourists wanting to see the Northern lights and the Illulisat ice fjord which is an Enesco World Herritage site.
It was stunning.
(click for bigger pics)
After two days in a fancy hotel with some rich ass Russians (I swear I didnt sell them any state secrets...)it was time to go to work. My project was on an island about 3 hours from the mainland by boat. You know, depending on how many icebergs are floating around...
Disko Island is home to about 1000 Inuit, who live there mostly from fishing and hunting, and who appearently really needed an artificial grass football/soccer field...
When I got there they were almost done with preparing a sub base. A job that is normally done in a week with very expensive machinery, but which took them months since all they had was an old loader and a village worth of volunteers.
And for living on a remote island thats cut off from the rest of the world for a good 4 months a year, they might have been the happiest, friendliest people Ive ever worked with...
The field was about 5m from the ocean and you could see icebergs floating by and whales breaching in the back ground all day long. Without a doubt the coolest place Ive ever built a football field...
We usually have different machines to do the final part of the job, which is filling the grass up with sand and rubber grain, but shipping was incredibly expensive so we decided to improvise and had the locals build a generator with a hydraulic pump on the back of an ATV.
It was also without a doubt the coldest place Ive ever built a football field. But it was totally worth it...
Hope you enjoyed...
After posting about videogames in the random picture thread I kinda felt I had to prove I do leave the house sometimes...
Photos were taken with a phone and uploading them hasnt done them much good, but its all I got.
I decided i should arrive a few days ahead of schedule so I would have a chance to look around, and from the town of Kangerlussuaq, I took a domestic flight to a small harbor town called Illulisat. With 4500 people (and a much great numer of sled dogs) this is the 3rd biggest city in Greenland. Its main industries are oil and whaling but its also a popular place for wealthy tourists wanting to see the Northern lights and the Illulisat ice fjord which is an Enesco World Herritage site.
It was stunning.
(click for bigger pics)
After two days in a fancy hotel with some rich ass Russians (I swear I didnt sell them any state secrets...)it was time to go to work. My project was on an island about 3 hours from the mainland by boat. You know, depending on how many icebergs are floating around...
Disko Island is home to about 1000 Inuit, who live there mostly from fishing and hunting, and who appearently really needed an artificial grass football/soccer field...
When I got there they were almost done with preparing a sub base. A job that is normally done in a week with very expensive machinery, but which took them months since all they had was an old loader and a village worth of volunteers.
And for living on a remote island thats cut off from the rest of the world for a good 4 months a year, they might have been the happiest, friendliest people Ive ever worked with...
The field was about 5m from the ocean and you could see icebergs floating by and whales breaching in the back ground all day long. Without a doubt the coolest place Ive ever built a football field...
We usually have different machines to do the final part of the job, which is filling the grass up with sand and rubber grain, but shipping was incredibly expensive so we decided to improvise and had the locals build a generator with a hydraulic pump on the back of an ATV.
It was also without a doubt the coldest place Ive ever built a football field. But it was totally worth it...
Hope you enjoyed...
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