My father worked in west arm for a couple years as a welder-he took many slides of the area and when he was home-once a month -we would get the projector out and have slide shows.Alas they were misplaced,never to be found.Us kids had the experience of visiting the site and driving down to the machine hall not once but twice and it was amazing through the eyes of a eight year old boy.

Thankyou for posting .your video. It brought back memories.My late husband worked on the machine hall from mid 1966 to mid 1968.He used to describe the mountains and the isolation, to me, but I didn't really get it.The mens huts were as I imagined. We were lucky enough to go there when the tunnel at Deep Cove was dewatered, but of course that was decades later.

Amazing footage. Brings back many memories. Worked there from 1968 to 1971. Best job, you can't beat 'construction work'.

Cool👍👍

Michael, you have an amazing videographers eye! Really appreciate you posting this.

Excellent. Very well edited. Thank you.

This must have been filmed on the only dry days there were! Boat trip to civilisation at Manapouri and that was miles from anywhere! The American Project Manager's daughter [about 17 years of age, I recall] was said to be the local bike - not that I'd know. His son got drafted to Vietnam.

@michaeljfoconnor2410

5 ай бұрын

No, wrong. The Boss when I was there, was a bloke by the name of Green. He was what we called the "Tin Hat" because he was the only person who had a tin hat... There were no females at the site, and certainly no one had their families there. So what you are saying sounds like an idiot rumour....

It would be worth using AI to clean up the video, 4k it and stabilize it.

pity about the sound!