I poss. will be working there for 10 weeks March-May and wouldn't mind meeting another FGFer

Doug , yes, a couple , but I think they only visit the L list....but I can give you the email to one of them , Brent Block, he has been here in Houston 3,4 times, nice guy....
email me at bsefeldt@mhinc.com and I`ll get you his email.

Perfect time for a visit, I could probably use a hand about then hanging doors and fenders LOL. You can reach me at [email protected]

Grant

Spiderman lives in Edmonton and I'm down the road a bit in Didsbury. The Didsbury Show 'n Shine is on Mother's Day and we usually get about 300 cars.

Cool actually I think the job is a little past Edmonton it's a 10 week shutdown at a oil refinary for Shell.
That's all I know for now I should be getting the work packet today or tomorrow.
My email is: [email protected]

Could be the Scotford Refinery about 30 miles NW?

I was wondering how much snow do you have up there & what are the temps ?

its cold! lol

Northern California is cold to you these days Bjorn (compaired to what your used to in Houston!) Lol...

I am building a hospital up in Ft. St. John NW from there but same sort of climate..hovering around freezing (32f) from what I see.

March can still be pretty cool in Edmonton but ya never know. I hail originally from Calgary where it's warmer (OK where's that Edmonton Calgary rivalry!)

That's why I moved to the coast, had enough of square tires in the winter...

I remember taking my old bird out in 40 degree weather in Calgary spring top down just to do it (not my wife the car)

I was up there in june 1988 in the u.s. airforce at edmonton for a weekend to the north american mall for a couple of days, but was at cold lake air base for two weeks for a joint exercise it was located about 100 miles north of edmonton . i remember the temps in june at the base was around low 70s and the day we left was in the 40s . my field jacket was packed away all i had on was a short sleeve .

Sounds about right! You might mean the West Edmonton Mall, the huge amusement park style mall....

yes thats the one road the roller coaster after i got off found out it derailed a few months before.

...but think of the RIDE you missed !

oh i did , thankful i was not on it at that time.

Right now we have about a foot of snow on the ground and the temp is around 0 F. Perfect snowmobiling weather, best we've had for years!

here , got this yesterday, how `bout this for fun?

[quote][/quote]1926 Snow Tractor



You're not gonna believe this..............Talk about ingenuity!

This is a really neat 1926 silent film (on video) of a tractor-snow-machine invented by Henry Ford, who is shown driving it.

Watch the whole thing. Note the "hat."

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html


Here's 1926 technology that should be brought back - just in time for the next Ice Age!

Looks like lots of fun. Why weren't these still around when we were teenagers? Yeehah!

Now thats awesome! Beats lifting a snowmobile around if you get deadended! May not be as good on the steep bowls but cool nonetheless!

how about snow tractor races!??

Doug,
Sorry. I didn't see this post until now.
I live in St Albert, just outside of Edmonton.
Drop me an email if you want to get together or if you need help with anything.
[email protected]
As Dave said, you may be working out at Scotsford in Fort Saskatchewan.
Trevor

I will if I ever get there.
Originally they had a 3500-5000 man call welders,pipefiters, Plumbers for Mid march to may.
I've talked to many people who had their paperwork in last year and still havn't heard a thing.