Posted November 10, 20168 yr Popular Post 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
November 10, 20168 yr Hell yeah!! I absolutely LOVED working for a pipeline. Awesome to see you working on that stuff!
November 10, 20168 yr Author 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
November 10, 20168 yr Man those pictures are awesome for real! How much PSI is running in that high pressure line from the compressor station?
November 10, 20168 yr Author 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
November 11, 20168 yr 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.
November 11, 20168 yr 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.
November 11, 20168 yr Author 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
November 12, 20168 yr 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, 20168 yr by Billy Jack
November 12, 20168 yr 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?
November 12, 20168 yr Author 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
November 12, 20168 yr Author 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
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