This may not look like prospecting but it was!

[golden optimist]

Talk about monkies and footballs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqX47JtVHA

What makes this really great is when Lester Cobb, the guy in the cowboy hat steps in. If you knew Lester, you'd have to believe that he was really steaming by the time he entered the picture.

Thanks Eric for turning me onto the video. It was great seeing Lester again.

RIP Lester, you were a real man's man.

[golden optimist]

Join Eric as he drives in Mongolia where he was gold prospecting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbHNN_NHXpI

Leonard

[lenster]

That's a long ways from Yakima, WASH.

[russau]

but a lot closer than st. louis mo.!!

[placerau]

Talk about monkies and footballs!

That was pretty amusing there Leonard. I'm gonna keep this to watch, and make sure I do everything different from them when I do my rigging.. I take it by the censorship, that he wasn't real happy with them guys doing his rigging either. You only get one chance to make a first impression, and that I don't think that qualified, until he stepped in and showed them the Big Picture.

[misterbigtoe]

Hey Leonard, Thanks for posting that. Glad you guys are enjoying it. That video was Les to a t. I just stood back and let him deal with it while I shot video for one of our associates! Holycrap I will have things to laugh over till my last breath with some of the things we got through together and a couple things we got through that have no lighter side. I spent a solid 5 months in Mongolia as Mine Superintendant while Les was on a rotation putting him there about 2 weeks in and 4 out taking care of other things including establishing our Nome project which I also Supered for two seasons. I shot that video the day before he rotated back out at the end of April. Had a lot of good times together, a few tough but none like that day I was with him in the woods working on a hunting stand....................Not easy to see that happen to anyone let alone your best bud. He lived a life that few can imagine and none will ever experience again! He is missed. But wherever he is now, he ain't resting................he's pushing dirt!

Here is a picture taken a few day before I finally fired my lead dozer operator. He found new and creative ways to scuttle that D9 twice a week. And yes he did nearly run it into a settlement pond after he overran his compacted base when pushing a new dam. It took all of the heavy equipment I had team pulling to pull it back up safely. Later proved that there was sabotage afoot but thats another story for another day involving foreign courts, arrest warrants, midnight calls to the consulate and some nefarious characters. After firing him I took the lead on Dozer myself. I stuck the D8 once but never the 9 and could nearly make that thing float. Therein was the first indication of the sabotage that later proved to be in place. Strange business the mining of Gold!

Will post more one of these days but I have been pretty busy keeping a tight grip on my ankles while being run through a wringer in a way I never thought possible in this country! And this too shall pass. MBT, Eric

[lenster]

Eric, what did you think of the book Norma wrote?

[misterbigtoe]

Eric, what did you think of the book Norma wrote?

What can I tell you, it is a book! A good read of course too! What did you think of it, sounds like you have read it.

Too bad Les didn't get around to putting his experiences and stories on paper, but who among us expects such an untimely end.

MBT,eric

[Tanqd]

thanks for the posts Eric. Keep 'em coming. How is Nasimi? Tell her I haven't forgotten that I owe her for that pop from three years ago in AK

[misterbigtoe]

Hi Erik, Glad to hear from ya. Will post a little more now and then. Won't talk about her, her brother, her sister, her sisters boyfriend or her best friend until the 10th Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois finishes its business with them. Has been Dirty Dirty Dirty!
MBT,eric