FOUR • Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 29,2004
Papineau to compete in national road operators’ contest
the Morrow County Road
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The Grader contest (above and below), where a grader is driven through a course and
then try the driver tries to push a bowling ball into a slot
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Loader, where a ball is dropped into a garbage can and then maneuver a course
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Jay Papineau with road equipment operator’s awards (top and bottom)
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knowledge competition for
road equipment operators.
Em ployees from Oregon
Road Departments as well as
ODOT show their skills on
obstacle courses using a
v ariety o f ty p es o f
equipment. In addition to
Papineau, Tom Bedortha,
Bill Morris and Greg Close,
all M orrow County, also
competed.
Some of the events
included: Truck Plow, where
a snow plow is mounted on
a truck and it is driven
through a serpentine course
with tennis balls on cones;
Grader, where a grader is
driven through a course and
then try to push a bowling
ball into a slot; Loader,
where a ball is dropped into
a g arb ag e can and then
maneuver a course; Chains-
O n -O ff^w h ere the truck
driver grabs a set of chains,
puts them on their dump
truck, pull forward and stop
exactly on a line, check the
chains, back up to the exact
sam e spot, take o ff the
chains and return the chains
to the starting point.
There were a total of
120 o p erato rs at the
competition. Each person is
eligible to compete in all of
the events. The people with
the top two scores are then
eligible for the all expense
paid trip to “Top G u n ” ,
Papineau placed second
overall. First place went to
our neighboring county,
Wheeler County, who will be
rep resen ted by Scott
Richardson.