If anyone is interested, I found the full episode of the TV show on you tube. Fascinating stuff.
Basically my friend was the Line Producer for the Series and she called me at the end of the first day as they where having trouble. I was busy and had work booked in which couldn't be cancelled...
Cory, as I mentioned I love nature programs. So was in my element with the sperm whale and all the Marine Biologists.
There are lots of wacked out theories of deep sea subs/fishing boats and their sonar knocking their senses. The Sperm Whale I did died of dehydration. As do most others, or...
No, we didn’t get a tooth. The MB was meant to send us one but it never turned up.
Whale cuts really well when you hit the bone. The blubber just makes the chain skid about. Worked out if you bored in with the tip and then use the dogs to help it along was the best method.
I posted it years ago in the work pictures thread. Was a great experience and I learnt so much from asking questions to theMarine Biologists and experts from the Natural History Museum and the Zoological Society of London.
I used to watch a lot of nature programs as a kid and always had a...
My MS 441 scalpel. Didn’t blunt it once but burnt out the nose sprocket on a 20” bar about 2/3rds of the way through the job.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t getting oil.
My missus (being Norwegian). Called me during the day and asked what we were doing with the meat. SMH! 😂
I didn’t have to haul it, thankfully. BUT I did section dismantle a 27t, 48 foot long dead sperm whale.
It had washed up on a beach in Kent, UK. A friend of mi e was making a documentary called ‘inside nature’s giants’. They performed an autopsy on the beach for the program.
I went back...
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