Growing pains
Topic: Adventure, Job|I worked harder yesterday than I have since the last time I wore cammies. Which coincidentally, I wore again yesterday and amazingly enough fit into after 10 years. I’m going to be purposefully vague in my wording and descriptions as I’d rather not have this page be easily googled.
It all started at 3:40am (a familiar time to anyone who has worn cammies) when my alarm went off. I got dressed and went to meet my team for the day. I got paired with 7 SWAT guys from the local county and was going to be the safest man on the planet for today, since I had a full team of over armed and over armored bodyguards. Sure they weren’t supposed to be my personal bodyguards but I was safe either way. So, we loaded into a helicopter and went to our ’site’. We disembarked and the helo left to handle more teams and sites. SWAT cleared the scene and then we got to work.
This was the hard part, my god I haven’t worked this kind of purely physical job in 10 years. We had to cut (I personally cut almost 600) plants, then hike them over to the pickup point and stack them. Then the bird would come over and lift them when we had a full load. We worked up about 7 full loads I think, so each one of those loads involved the helo hovering above us for a few minutes as the load was secured and lifted. If you’ve never been under a hovering helo; its loud, its windy and its dirty. Not to mention painful, with all the dirt being propelled at bb gun speed impacting every bit of bare skin on your body. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an awesome feeling, but you need a shower after just one helo lift, let alone 7.
looks like these ops are the same format every time, except you got the convenient commute. i hope i can participate in one with you using your commuter rig in the future. thanks for helping restore the wild lands of your fair county; the governator and your fellow citizens truly appreciate your efforts and they will pay back 10 (-8.5) fold!
Yesterday I stared at Excel sheets until my eyes bled. Talk about having to shower.
Josh Grant is my hero!
@Jobu - Go big or go home is how we roll. Ain’t no walking inolved in a high class operation like this buddy.
@Pchan - The nicest thing about the shower is how your mom scrubbed up and down.
@Kevin - Kosburn, I learned it all from you buddy. Much love to the big bouncer.
They say a nice big spliff is better than a shower after a hard day of work.