Monday, February 14, 2005

 

The truck is crossing an ice bridge on the lake. The ice would move and buckle as it formed over the winter months, so the workers would have to build a bridge across the cracked ice. The winter road went for about 40 miles across the lake and then about three times further through sand dunes and scrubby jack-pine before connecting with permanent northern roads.Posted by Hello

Comments:
Wow.It sounds like it was in the middle of nowhere.That was one long trek.
 
Building ice roads is a challenge. The workers must watch for cracks when they first start plowing the snow so the ice will freeze thicker. (Snow is an insulation.)Sometimes they would walk behind a Cat and control it with ropes, just in case it might break through the ice. Where they crossed rivers they would flood the ice to make it thicker.

When trucks and heavy equipment travel on lake ice, the ice actually bends. If they drive too fast they push a wave of water ahead of themselves under the ice. Then as they near shore the ice can break and the truck go in.

One man in Uranium City hauled a lot of houses and buildings across the lake from an old mine sight late in the season. As a result there are several buildings, a few trucks, and a loader in the bottom of the lake. The fish have their own city down there!
 
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