Digester dismantle graphic

here are my designs for the shirts, bandanas and hard hat stickers for the crew...



they are being printed by Big Cranium - and will be ready by our next union meeting

the Tembec digester

this photo is from an earlier Brand shutdown; the digester is under the rubiks cube structure in the middle distance

photo: doc livingston

The Chinook Night Shift digester teardown crew

Job Site: Skookumchuck

Contractor: Tembec

Supervisor: Ryan Walker

Date: 17/Sep/11

Shift: Night

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1. Kevin Blackman 2. Jen Durkin 3. Brian Johnson 4. (off) 5. Jodie Lemieux 6. Jason Miller 7. George Stevens 8. John Voykin 9. Ryan Walker 10. Ray Reginbal 11. Lyle Bowcock 12. Jessa Koerber 13. Travis Proulx

14. Jimmy Lennox 15. Steve Borho 16. Brian Miller 17. Jade Shaw 18. Doc Livingston 19. Kevin Cook 20. Rob Jones 21. Terry Heagy 22. Peter Kintoff 23. Shelly Embree 24. Andrew Kabatoff 25. Barrie Lafortune 26. Jim Van Horn

Jodie's photos on Facebook

view Jodie's Skook teardown album: September 18, 2011

the ground crew as dawn breaks

Doc at the hole about 10 hours into shift

welcome to Skookum Shut 2011

the following series of photos shows the September 17/18 special assembled Chinook night shift Skookumchuck BC pulpmill digester vessel confined space scaffold dismantle crew: we rocked all night long and shredded the digester in 10 hours and 52 minutes.

Jodie Lemieux

Jessa noted we entered the vessel at 8:20 PM
Saturday and finished at 7:12 AM Sunday

Andrew Kabatoff and Jodie

Jade Shaw and Shelly Embree

Brian Miller

Kevin Cook

Rob Jones and Jodie

Jimmy Lennox

Jessa

Kelly Bannister, Tembec gas tester, at the hole we crawl into about 6 stories up

Moe, Tembec hole watch

John Voykin, president Local 2300

Rob Jones

Jonesy and Johnny, Chinook scaffold builder foremen

what was still overhead and coming down one piece at a time

the best ground crew ever

Steve Borho, Jodie Lemieux, Travis Proulx, Jen Durkin, Barrie Lafortune, Jimmy Lennox

Dave "Doc" Livingston and Jessa Koerber

Jessa and Shelly

Doc turned 65 on the 18th and retired at 7:30 AM

the last swivel jack comes out and Jodie captures it

Steve Borho, Local 1719 Cranbrook

Steve on an earlier shift

Chinook night shift foreman Jodie Lemieux

3rd year apprentice Jessa Koerber

special thanks to night shift supervisor Ryan Walker - like a rock

photos by Doc, Jodie and Shelly