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Desert Workshop

Daily Photo – Desert Workshop

Today’s photo is of our mechanics’ desert workshop. Here these five or six guys would keep out fleet of 30 or more Land Rovers and trucks running – plus the generators!

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A few miles inland from Kuala Belait, Brunei, was a sand quarry in the jungle. This photo quite clearly shows the 3 ~ 4 meter layer of organic material from the jungle overlying a seam of sand that is being quarried for construction needs.

Daily Photo – Jungle Quarry

Most of my LVL work was to determine and map the boundary of the organic material to the first two distinct layers of sand. Consequently, most of my shots would only be sunk a couple of meters into the organic layer. The main crew, however, needed their shots placed down in to the sand – about six meters down.

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