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At work the parking lot is either infested with giant moles that tunnel up through the earth at night and pull down the trees into their underground burrows or else there is a tree burglar on the loose carting off trees in his rusty old pick up truck (isn't it always rusty and old?) in the middle of the night.  Of course, this could also be a sign of the parking lot improvement project... but I tend to like the image of giant moles with little blinky eyes, proper waistcoats complete with pocket watches, and tiny little spectacles pulling trees underground Bugs Bunny-style. 

Norway

First trip across the Atlantic - to Norway!
1,400+ photographs
My favorites - No, not the aerials photos from the plane or the pretty red and yellow houses mirrored on the waters of the fjord.  Of course I like the bridge and the cranes the best.

Feed Me!

I loved this job - a massive pair of shears on a Volvo excavator. They were demo-ing two large steel tanks, and although it almost looked it the way the shears tore through these things, these were not like big aluminum cans you could just crumple. This steel was up to six inches thick in places. Coolest thing to watch ever. The shears cut through the steel literally like butter, and the operator was super talented. He would cut off massive sheets of steel, and then fold them up in neat rolls. You can see the stack of them behind the body of the excavator. So, besides for just drooling over the project, this is a great example of what one of my friends calls giving the equipment I take photos of personality. When I look at this photo, the first thing I think is that the excavator is saying "Feed me!"

When You Really Want To Clean A Beach

This is one nasty looking piece of machinery. It is called a RockHound and was used mounted to the front of a Mustang track loader (Someone tried to tell me that it was a Mustang Backhoe - I think that's like calling it Puffs Kleenex....). We used it for for hardcore beach cleaning - this thing is going to pick up a lot more than random pieces of trash and cigarette butts. From a distance it is not that impressive, but when you get your face up-close to the actual RockHound and peer through the holes (Health and Safety moment - turn off equipment before peering through holes), this is one vicious looking thing - think row of two inch long teeth mounted on steel bars that all rotate around a central shaft. Looks more like a medieval torture device!