We specialise in remote area Soil Sampling and Auger Drilling We can also provide mapping, GIS services to create presentation style maps and images, database creation and management.
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Perth, Western Australia, AU
Jono has been turning rocks into steel. Freeing the sword from the stone!
furthering on from my post on making a knife from pisolites, a few people asked about the iron smelting process. here's a short video i made from a smelt i did yesterday. this ore was sent to me from one of the iron ore majors, from one of their better RC metres. https://lnkd.in/gYUiXCqN
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We'll have one crew with an available window of time in late July. If you're looking for soils/streams/passive/rehab work done in the Kimberley, reach out.
Here's a helpful tip. Numbering points sequentially can be annoying (especially if the grid isn't running due N-S or E-W, but thats another story) so we've written a Python script to handle it. Select the layer in QGIS, run the script, it'll prompt for prefix and starting number - and you're done. This one will create the points from West to East, then progress in a Southerly direction. Download for the python code available now in the Downloads section of the ozex website - ozex.com.au (saved as a txt file, open it, copy and paste the code into the Python Console in QGIS) Enjoy 😎
OZEX tip for the day: As Telstra's 3G service coverage comes to an end on the 31st August, it seems that it'll significantly impact mobile coverage in remote areas. No more finding a hill and going up the top to get 1 bar of signal! I haven't found a reliable GIS layer for Telstra's coverage (anyone?) but I've been using an trick shown to me by a geologist who wasn't GIS savvy - registering images in Google Earth. In this instance, I've screenshotted the area of coverage (from Telstra's coverage map on their website) I was interested in, saved it as a JPG and imported it into Google Earth. Then you simply stretch it around until it matches the base map, and export it as a KML - georeferenced. Fast and effective. In this instance, I'd compared the 3G network coverage to the 4G coverage - it'll impact some areas a lot more than others. Not great news, especially off the back of the Thuraya T3 satellite failure... Has anyone heard if Telstra has a plan to increase the reach of the 4G network?
I'm not sure why, but when people come visit the workshop they're amazed at the range of equipment we have. I probably should market that better. In the meantime, here's our Unimog doing what they do best - going really slowly, but over everything. Full diff lock, and a chassis that's designed to twist. Ever seen a 6.2 tonne truck balancing on two wheels?!