starting to recede in central Alaska. About time... Sure, I don't have
a job if there's no snow to push, but I'm about fed up with show
plowing, hard pack removal, and getting my truck stuck on the soft
shoulders of the road. You'd think that a Kenworth truck wouldn't get
stuck so easily, but you'd be wrong.
I suppose that means I'm really ready for Spring... or I'm ready to be
in PNG, where I hear the forecast for snow is nonexistent.
So, on Monday I had a fun day. It was the last two hard pack removal
jobs that I had to do. One was in North Pole where I plowed this guy's
whole back yard.. yeah, the whole thing. He had about two feet of snow
over an acre and a half or so that I piled up behind his house... oh,
and I only had one good chain left on the loader, so that thing was
slipping all over the place.
Then I drove up in the hills to plow out this guy's horse coral. Yeah,
horses in Alaska. Who knew?
About halfway through removing his hard pack, the loader ran out of
fuel... sweet, my fuel truck is fifteen miles away. Well, the ranger guy
gave me a ride into town and I finished his lot. After I loaded up the
loader on the trailer, I pull out onto the road and!!!... run that out
of fuel too... Funny thing though, the right tank was three quarters
full, the left tank, bone dry...
Some day hu?
