I am tellin ya, if nothing else gets you out here, the terrain can check your ticket at any time. No matter, I love these mountains.
@ryanv37517 ай бұрын
Safety man would have a heart attack between the noise, silica, asbestos wrap, and especially the blaster with a cigarette!
@DrEvil8147 ай бұрын
"Great care is taken to protect the engines and air compressors from the the highly abrasive silica dust with double oil bath air filters and spares always available." Mean while the drill operators stand in a cloud of dust. .. I was doing the same thing only 40 years ago.
@marcuswyatt28497 ай бұрын
Paved the way for my generation.
@SB-hy9iq7 ай бұрын
Had me thinking about mesothelioma
@demolitiondavedrillandblast7 ай бұрын
Lucky to still be with us Dr. Evil.
@AugustusTitus6 ай бұрын
The helper in the ditch no doubt died of silicosis. Not even a handkerchief.
@stephenmitchell-we8wi7 ай бұрын
They cared more about the intake filters than they did the men breathing that rock
@donmcintosh41257 ай бұрын
All those men probably died from silicosis. Sad 😢
@ghostmantagshome-er6pb7 ай бұрын
My Grandad worked for the TVA and breathed asbestos for 30 years.
@davidwarm67997 ай бұрын
They used the filters on their cigarettes for that
@jhonsiders60776 ай бұрын
I wonder if they even knew about how dangerous silica was back then. Just like asbestos was never given a thought .
@carlachambers37718 күн бұрын
Exahst fumes killed most people on the hoover dam project.
@joshuagibson25207 ай бұрын
Out here in Morgan county Tn a lot of us have our own natural gas wells and pipe. Quite a few oil wells out here to. They have pretty much priced anyone out of doing such things these days though.
@joshuagibson25207 ай бұрын
Well, priced and regulated actually.
@joshuagibson25207 ай бұрын
Back when men were men and worked hard.
@bobbyinalaska.41867 ай бұрын
And when women knew to behave or off to the nut house they went. And they did!
@laserbeam0027 ай бұрын
Absolutely....Try getting a young person to do this work today. They would turn their nose up and go back home to mommie and daddy.
@SB-hy9iq7 ай бұрын
And died young lol
@jhonsiders60776 ай бұрын
Could you just see the top knot tattooed gym boys doing this ? They would fall over of exhaustion!
@skipd91643 ай бұрын
I actually did markouts for a utility that fed off Tennico line in MASS. I didn't have responsibility for that line butt kept my eye on it
@joemonroe38115 ай бұрын
They did a heck of a job they could probably not do what they did back then today like they did
@skipd91643 ай бұрын
Actually today they can do it faster and better than back then. The new mains will also be able too have monitor equipment that measures wall thickness. It will also have more cathotic protection
@staneckhart66487 ай бұрын
I’ve traveled 30 years all over the USA and Mexico laying pipelines. It’s cool to see these old films.
@PeriscopeFilm7 ай бұрын
Curious to know the biggest differences you see in how it was done back then vs. now?
@staneckhart66487 ай бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm it’s pretty much the same but now days they have rock saws for ditching but they still blast some. They don’t use dope and tape for coating the pipe they now use epoxy. And a lot of big inch pipe they weld the pipe with automatics. And they also do a lot directional drilling. Today the pipeline integrity is most important.
@carldorsey26047 ай бұрын
@@staneckhart6648cool to see those old school side booms. I’ve had to put two part epoxy I believe on a few pipelines when I worked on them. Interesting tho I’ve had to work on an older pipeline they coated with asbestos we had to call AMPOL to come and bust the coating off.
@robostyle97737 ай бұрын
Awesome video thanks
@michaelhowell25417 ай бұрын
Ever watch a crow fly? Never a straight line!🤔😂🤣
@joebufford29727 ай бұрын
I worked in a subdivision and severe county that had a pipeline going through it and anytime we disturb the soil there was an airplane in the air circling because there is a pipeline in the neighborhood
@bobbyinalaska.41867 ай бұрын
Security company
@steveblanco88127 ай бұрын
@demolitiondavedrillandblast think you'll enjoy this if you haven't seen it mate especially the drilling and blasting lighting fuses by hand
@jimeditorial7 ай бұрын
No safety glasses, boots or hard hats. No hearing protection either. I wonder how many of those men made it to 65?
@derekbryant61373 ай бұрын
When men were men and safety people didn't have their way safety was up to the individual you worked as safe as you felt and that was get it done anyway that was the safety do it anyway because most of those men were there because of their families and nothing else
@joshuagibson25207 ай бұрын
10mil wouldnt even get you 10 miles of pipline these days.
@curtislowe45777 ай бұрын
I wonder how many of these men died young due to the double whammy of smoking and stone dust. There has always been so much resistance to even common-sense relatively inexpensive safety equipment on both the personal and corporate levels. 200 psi normal operational pressure but tested to 720 psi. 3.6 is an odd multiple. Was that an old API requirement?
@mmal79827 ай бұрын
I think 720 psig is the MAOP as that matches a lot of other pipe of that vintage (so hydro'd to 1.5 times that?). Probably only need 200 at the terminus but who knows. The narration may be a little off on the details.
@jhonsiders60776 ай бұрын
They had no idea how dangerous it was just like asbestos is.
@skipd91643 ай бұрын
Actually I think it ran at 600 to 700 psi
@joshuagibson25207 ай бұрын
There is no rock in Tn. Lol. So I have heard people say. I build fence and auger lots of holes. Im convinced we have the largest amount of sandstone anywhere in the world.
@carlachambers37718 күн бұрын
This was before the Mexican know it alls started moving in.