So, a first true day of labour for me. Interesting.
It started simply enough with a presentation (oh my, another one! ) and a drug test. ha. Afterwards, some hanging around as per usual and then into the field for more...hanging around. By around 11:30 they finally found a group of people for me to join so they drove me out with them to the line we were laying.
It goes like this, for each reciever, which is like a data collection point, there are six or more geophones. These little things are basically a spike you stomp into the ground. So the reciever is a cable with these attached to it, and at the end is an adaptor to attach it to the a collection type cable. About six recievers can connect to this cable, and this cable goes and attaches to a wireless radio with a battery. This is known simply enough as laying recievers. We laid down about 160, mostly likely more, recievers today. Each reciever is about 100-150 feet apart, and there you go. A big long day of walking and stomping stuff.
So what else can I say? I was with two Mexicans and two Guatamalans today, and I heard more Spanish than in the rest of my life. They were good people though, true "salt of the earth" types. There was this one point, while we were waiting for the helicopter to drop off more cables and recievers, we decided to have a bit of a rest/lay down. Everyone was dozing, and in the corner of my eye I saw a bunch of cows get close to the fence we were by. Don't worry, they were on the other side. But it was entertaining, napping in a field, cows next to me, sun shining brightly. I felt like I was in some Mark Twain novel or something.
I was ducking under an electrified fence today and got my ass zapped. That gets you mooo-ving.
Anywho, I'm awful tired here and I think I need to watch an episode of OZ before bed and book my flight home. I'll be back on April 6th folks, so I'll see you then.
It started simply enough with a presentation (oh my, another one! ) and a drug test. ha. Afterwards, some hanging around as per usual and then into the field for more...hanging around. By around 11:30 they finally found a group of people for me to join so they drove me out with them to the line we were laying.
It goes like this, for each reciever, which is like a data collection point, there are six or more geophones. These little things are basically a spike you stomp into the ground. So the reciever is a cable with these attached to it, and at the end is an adaptor to attach it to the a collection type cable. About six recievers can connect to this cable, and this cable goes and attaches to a wireless radio with a battery. This is known simply enough as laying recievers. We laid down about 160, mostly likely more, recievers today. Each reciever is about 100-150 feet apart, and there you go. A big long day of walking and stomping stuff.
So what else can I say? I was with two Mexicans and two Guatamalans today, and I heard more Spanish than in the rest of my life. They were good people though, true "salt of the earth" types. There was this one point, while we were waiting for the helicopter to drop off more cables and recievers, we decided to have a bit of a rest/lay down. Everyone was dozing, and in the corner of my eye I saw a bunch of cows get close to the fence we were by. Don't worry, they were on the other side. But it was entertaining, napping in a field, cows next to me, sun shining brightly. I felt like I was in some Mark Twain novel or something.
I was ducking under an electrified fence today and got my ass zapped. That gets you mooo-ving.
Anywho, I'm awful tired here and I think I need to watch an episode of OZ before bed and book my flight home. I'll be back on April 6th folks, so I'll see you then.
posted by Poshy at 7:12 PM
2 Comments:
I think it's hilarious that you got your bum zapped.
Sounds like an interesting day nonetheless. With helicopters and cows and fences. Makes me want to go camping. Hope you're doing well my dear!
Doing well, but just tired. And tired of the smell of cow shit.
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