Valentine’s Day Roses
For Valentine’s Day 2014, we produced a run of roses inspired by our foreman Burn’s gift to his wife the year before. We ended up making over 100 roses for clients, some of whom ordered a dozen at a time.
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Valentine’s Day Roses
For Valentine’s Day 2014, we produced a run of roses inspired by our foreman Burn’s gift to his wife the year before. We ended up making over 100 roses for clients, some of whom ordered a dozen at a time.
Jet Boat Resurrection
The Peace River is a wide, calm river, perfect for peaceful canoe trips and rafting. But for those who like a little more adrenaline in their summer, it’s also a popular river for jet boating. In fact, Peace River hosts a jet boat race every year during PeaceFest and has hosted world championship races in the past. The thunderous roar of the boats is part of the sounds of summer in the Peace.
Jet boats are propelled by drawing water from under the boat into a pump inside the boat, which then expels it through a nozzle at the stern. The jet boats on the Peace are fast aluminum racing boats and they often use actual jet fuel to reach high speeds on the water. Some jet boats can reach up to 140 mph.
Obviously, when speeds like that involved, it’s easy for accidents to happen.
Here’s an example of a fairly tame crash on the Peace River back in 2010. You can clearly see the damage left behind even by this small bump.
Hell ‘N’ Back generally ends up custom fixing at least one jet boat per season, plus parts for others, especially tunnels.
In January 2013, we fixed a jet boat that had actually sunk to the bottom of the river and remained there for several months before it could be salvaged and fixed back up. Fortunately silt filled the boat and kept it from rolling too far down the river, but there was still extensive damage to the hull.
We were able to fix this boat up and make it like new. Here’s the reveal for the client:
Hell ‘N’ Back Welding Jet Boat Resurrection Reveal 4/4
In spring of 2014 we also completely redid a jet boat for another client. Check out the project page for jetboat 2014.
Jet Boat Resurrection
The Peace River is a wide, calm river, perfect for peaceful canoe trips and rafting. But for those who like a little more adrenaline in their summer, it’s also a popular river for jet boating. In fact, Peace River hosts a jet boat race every year during PeaceFest and has hosted world championship races in the past. The thunderous roar of the boats is part of the sounds of summer in the Peace.
Jet boats are propelled by drawing water from under the boat into a pump inside the boat, which then expels it through a nozzle at the stern. The jet boats on the Peace are fast aluminum racing boats and they often use actual jet fuel to reach high speeds on the water. Some jet boats can reach up to 140 mph.
Obviously, when speeds like that involved, it’s easy for accidents to happen.
Here’s an example of a fairly tame crash on the Peace River back in 2010. You can clearly see the damage left behind even by this small bump.
Hell ‘N’ Back generally ends up custom fixing at least one jet boat per season, plus parts for others, especially tunnels.
In January 2013, we fixed a jet boat that had actually sunk to the bottom of the river and remained there for several months before it could be salvaged and fixed back up. Fortunately silt filled the boat and kept it from rolling too far down the river, but there was still extensive damage to the hull.
We were able to fix this boat up and make it like new. Here’s the reveal for the client:
Hell ‘N’ Back Welding Jet Boat Resurrection Reveal 4/4
In spring of 2014 we also completely redid a jet boat for another client. Check out the project page for jetboat 2014.
Lugging cats
Every year Hell ‘N’ Back Welding helps local companies in the Peace region of Canada prepare their equipment for winter by installing a series of “lugs” or “corks”, which essentially act as cleats on the equipment tracks to help them grip on snow and ice. Here in the Canadian north we can see temperatures dipping into the low -40s C, and repeated snowstorms for up to 8 months of the year, but winter is also the busy season in the oilfield thanks to the use of ice roads, so local companies need to be ready to handle whatever the weather throws at them and keep going during the rush.
The lugs wear out over time, and need to be replaced regularly. Each piece of equipment requires hundreds of them installed each year, and we commonly lug several packers, track hoes, and different sizes of Caterpillars each fall. We lug Cats both in our own shop and on site in the field as needed.
Here’s a video explaining the process:
What Does Lugging a Cat Mean?
Lugging cats
Every year Hell ‘N’ Back Welding helps local companies in the Peace region of Canada prepare their equipment for winter by installing a series of “lugs” or “corks”, which essentially act as cleats on the equipment tracks to help them grip on snow and ice. Here in the Canadian north we can see temperatures dipping into the low -40s C, and repeated snowstorms for up to 8 months of the year, but winter is also the busy season in the oilfield thanks to the use of ice roads, so local companies need to be ready to handle whatever the weather throws at them and keep going during the rush.
The lugs wear out over time, and need to be replaced regularly. Each piece of equipment requires hundreds of them installed each year, and we commonly lug several packers, track hoes, and different sizes of Caterpillars each fall. We lug Cats both in our own shop and on site in the field as needed.
Here’s a video explaining the process:
What Does Lugging a Cat Mean?