BUILDING OF TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE TO OAK RIDGE GARDNER DENVER CO. NATURAL GAS 90644

[@aaronbaird3533]

Holy silicosis Batman!

[@joshuagibson2520]

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.

[@ryanv3751]

Safety man would have a heart attack between the noise, silica, asbestos wrap, and especially the blaster with a cigarette!

[@DrEvil814]

"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.

[@marcuswyatt2849]

Paved the way for my generation.

[@SB-hy9iq]

Had me thinking about mesothelioma

[@demolitiondavedrillandblast]

Lucky to still be with us Dr. Evil.

[@AugustusTitus]

The helper in the ditch no doubt died of silicosis. Not even a handkerchief.

[@stephenmitchell-we8wi]

They cared more about the intake filters than they did the men breathing that rock

[@donmcintosh4125]

All those men probably died from silicosis. Sad 😢

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

My Grandad worked for the TVA and breathed asbestos for 30 years.

[@davidwarm6799]

They used the filters on their cigarettes for that

[@jhonsiders6077]

I wonder if they even knew about how dangerous silica was back then. Just like asbestos was never given a thought .

[@carlachambers3771]

Exahst fumes killed most people on the hoover dam project.

[@joshuagibson2520]

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.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Well, priced and regulated actually.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Back when men were men and worked hard.

[@bobbyinalaska.4186]

And when women knew to behave or off to the nut house they went. And they did!

[@laserbeam002]

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-hy9iq]

And died young lol

[@jhonsiders6077]

Could you just see the top knot tattooed gym boys doing this ? They would fall over of exhaustion!

[@skipd9164]

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

[@joemonroe3811]

They did a heck of a job they could probably not do what they did back then today like they did

[@skipd9164]

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

[@staneckhart6648]

I’ve traveled 30 years all over the USA and Mexico laying pipelines. It’s cool to see these old films.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Curious to know the biggest differences you see in how it was done back then vs. now?

[@staneckhart6648]

@@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.

[@carldorsey2604]

⁠@@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.

[@robostyle9773]

Awesome video thanks

[@michaelhowell2541]

Ever watch a crow fly? Never a straight line!🤔😂🤣

[@joebufford2972]

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.4186]

Security company

[@steveblanco8812]

@demolitiondavedrillandblast think you'll enjoy this if you haven't seen it mate especially the drilling and blasting lighting fuses by hand

[@jimeditorial]

No safety glasses, boots or hard hats. No hearing protection either. I wonder how many of those men made it to 65?

[@derekbryant6137]

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

[@joshuagibson2520]

10mil wouldnt even get you 10 miles of pipline these days.

[@curtislowe4577]

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?

[@mmal7982]

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.

[@jhonsiders6077]

They had no idea how dangerous it was just like asbestos is.

[@skipd9164]

Actually I think it ran at 600 to 700 psi

[@joshuagibson2520]

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.

[@carlachambers3771]

This was before the Mexican know it alls started moving in.

[@stephenmulholland4868]

The video was a gas

[@BR-bj3ot]

I wonder if they ran into any Bigfoot?