What have I been up too ?

[Thumpper 266]

working on Natural Gas Pipelines , weld repairing hit lines , plastic fusion on PE and helicopter drops on mountainsides....  never a dull moment

 

repairing a hit 4" live gasline

 

a 10" high pressure gas  line

 

 

 

plastic fusion tie in between a 4" PE and 2" PE line

 

a 2" PE gas line and a service tee going to a house

[altoncustomtech 773]

Hell yeah!!  I absolutely LOVED working for a pipeline. Awesome to see you working on that stuff!

[Thumpper 266]

a D7 Cat holding an excavator on a mountainside ... so steep in places you had to crawl up

we had 900 meters of 1.25" cable ... 1800+ feet

[TX98Z28 10]

Man those pictures are awesome for real! How much PSI is running in that high pressure line from the compressor station?

[Thumpper 266]

The high pressure line is about 1200 psi

 

the distribution lines are 62 psi

 

i have welded stopper fittings on 500 psi

... they dropped the pressure for me

can't say I wasn't nervous with those 

 

i had a Muller ignite because of a leaky valve about 3 feet from me when I was

running a root pass on a transition and

got hosed down with a dry chem 

[Tirefryr 1,742]

FUCK THAT!

 

I had a regulator go nuts and burn up  dryer the other day at 7psi.  I can't fathom the insane pressures you're around.

[Billy Jack 145]

Reminds me of my Rodbusting days. You got to be half crazy to do some of these construction jobs, and I'm not talking about you sir or your job I'm talking about what we used to do, hanging from 50 story buildings, or being down in a tube, 100' foot under the river having rebar lowered in over our heads, that type of stuff. But I'm sure working around those high pressures, can get a little Hairy sometimes. 

[Thumpper 266]

If I fuck up on a high pressure line There would be a crater with a bunch of burnt shit in the middle taking up about 3  square blocks

 

no biggie.... LOL

[jcarter1885 995]

Cool pictures and a great view.

[Billy Jack 145]

20 hours ago, Thumpper said:

If I fuck up on a high pressure line There would be a crater with a bunch of burnt shit in the middle taking up about 3  square blocks

 

no biggie.... LOL

Kind of like when we had a bundle of gratuated steal break free from the chokers, and fall 62 stories onto Cadillac square, in Detroit, and the longer bars went so deep into the pavement the Cranes couldn't even pull them out, so we had to cut the ends off, and nail them on in, and pave over them. Looked like a giant box of tooth pics flying every where. 

Edited November 12, 2016 by Billy Jack

[Jay-C76 333]

Nice pics Trevor! Lay that pipe!

I bet that's a challenge to weld that close to the ground. How do the check that out in the field? Still by x-ray or do they use some other method?

[Thumpper 266]

it's all done by X-Ray and the distribution lines are tested with air on a clock

 high pressure is hydro tested .... line pumped up with 2200psi of water

 

[Thumpper 266]

also doing abandonments of house services.... with these I weld a steel plug on the tee branch with an acetylene  torch

 

you wanna talk small holes.... I'm 6"2 and have to fold in half sometimes