PIPELINE-Rare Documentary on the Alaskan Pipeline

[@sammanfield8589]

Fascinating film, Thanks for uploading it. Wonder was there any/many casualties during the construction

[@backtothebeatproductions]

glad you enjoyed! if you would like to see more documentaries i find i share more on my other page, @bttb Lost Media

[@thomasmorgan2697]

Spent 76/77 then back in 81 through 87 then back in the 90s loved it, it becomes your life

[@mcarroll598]

Such an awesome project. Love learning and hearing about this!

[@lucmarchand617]

Thank you well done.I got uncle from montreal quebec work on pumping station pipefitters.He come back bought brand new house yes.Myself 30 years oe alberta pipenes in western canada i work lots peoples was involve on this include fluor calgary.I hope lots people understand built this was top due opec raising prices and shortage fuel.Peoples from ny and vermont cross border fuel jerry cans, drum so on was very sad see this but learn a lots from past i hope.thanks again video.😊

[@quintinnelton4189]

If this don't make you proud to be an American and give you and appreciate fot the strength of men of the past than nothing will! I have worked doing 36"-52" underground boaring work, construction, line work and now I work on the river and I can truly say nothing i have ever seen compairs to the construction of the trans Alaska pipeline! Thank you for posting! Y'all have a blessed day!

[@johndowe7003]

back then when the men were men and the women were men too. nowadays everyone is a big psy.

[@tu__tone]

Well said. What these men were asked to do was simply incredible. We need to remember the men and women that built these amazing infrastructure projects.

[@zooba1974]

Absolutely amazing.

[@albutterfield5965]

One of the things that seems to never get mentioned is that during pipeline construction is that the bears figured out have to use their claws to pop out the front window of a vehicle and remove you lunch and or other food items so this necessitated that professional auto glass people be employed to keep repairing the windows.

[@backtothebeatproductions]

i'm sure the pipeline's employment reached very far. i have another documentary on the building of the Alaskan highway system i hope to share soon. Worked the same way, it employed thousands.

[@walterwhitaker1395]

True Story!

[@ericglass398]

My Dad was at Pump Station 3 during those years -- they had a bear they named Doors who would wander through camp, according to the tales.

[@albutterfield5965]

@@ericglass398I worked at deadhorse for almost 10 years

[@davidh1927]

Not mentioned in the film- it has been said of the pipeline "never have so many done so little for so much'....not to take away from those who did the actual work but there was alot of driftwood...hangers on....I have many friends who worked on it. This was a cost plus project, similar to the KBR Iraq war contract.

[@crowleywilliam1]

1975 September I worked out of local 942 Fairbanks at Livengood Camp for Price as a Chucktender I was just 18 years old at time one of the youngest working on pipeline What a experience after emigrating from Ireland great job great experience 👏

[@steveniksid5874]

I'm not getting any audio for some reason.

[@herzogsbuick]

this is my second time watching this. the music, the editing, the camera work, the narration, and of course the men and women who made the subject matter possible...it's unreal. i gotta track down these people and see what else they made.

[@mikepoteet1443]

I just love the music!

[@backtothebeatproductions]

me too! all around a cool video

[@garyrhodes7089]

the shot of the Exon Valdese tanker at the end cold

[@kriscalverley2131]

Very interesting. 4 years of dealing g with pipeline machinery through bc. Tough stuff,tough men

[@backtothebeatproductions]

they don’t make ‘em like me anymore!

[@kriscalverley2131]

@@backtothebeatproductions oh I think they do.....rare breed pipeliners

[@prevost8686]

The pipeline has also been a tremendous boom for wildlife conservation as well. One of the greatest stories not told by so- called environmentalists.

[@bigstick6943]

I wonder what the men who worked on this pipeline think about the young men today? It is sad how this country has fallen.

[@markkuzia3839]

The days when men were men no safety equipment, sad to see how this country has changed, those guys made $11 -$18 per hour,

[@skitown11]

About the same rate that immigrants work today for Trump's capitalists.

[@Chris_at_Home]

I worked 15 years in the oil field and then 15 years doing communications maintenance on the pipeline.

[@backtothebeatproductions]

sure you have some great stories

[@jp6614]

Back when projects got built on time & budget. Not a freeloading protester in sight. Back in the day. 🤟

[@shanejohnston7140]

Did you miss the whole part about sitting stagnant for five years? or nah.

[@terryfelkins912]

Really interesting !

[@backtothebeatproductions]

thanks for watching!

[@Beefbus]

Laying pipe.

[@willcojak9650]

Woke did not build the pipe line.

[@terryfelkins912]

Amazing!

[@dolphincliffs8864]

I don't think I would cook in the rod oven,a little 7018 for spice.

[@snydedon9636]

Pipe from Japan. At one time the US produced the best steel in the world.

[@LQ-C]

They did not want the best, they wanted the cheapest.

[@snydedon9636]

@@LQ-C I was trying to point out how we use to produce such quality products that they were wanted by most other countries. We don’t manufacture and export much here in the USA anymore. Unfortunately we depend on foreign imports of which much is low quality.

[@prevost8686]

@@snydedon9636Our steel has become a “boutique” item like many of our once plentiful products of high quality and affordable prices. The biggest lie ever sold to the American people was NAFTA. Sell-out Democrats and Republicans alike betrayed their own country for their own interests. It has gutted our industry and turned skilled workers into fast food employees. Only America is stupid enough to refuse to protect their markets and industries from unfair trade practices by countries that are bent on destroying the United States. There’s a reason why career politicians like Biden, Clinton, Obama enter politics broke as a convict and retire worth millions of dollars. Plenty of Republicans in that nest of snakes too. The United States has been betrayed by its own government and its long past the time for many of them to pay for their crimes against this country.

[@normanott644]

I was on my way to Alaska in 1970 to do pipeline work but when I got Washington I got a job in a logging camp and stayed there . Food was better.

[@mikeprice4103]

Good ole days for sure!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining.

[@solomongainey838]

I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary, more descriptions and talking with less music would have been great. Otherwise very interesting to watch.

[@Harold710]

Great TAPS footage. The pipeline police used to drive red trucks.

[@backtothebeatproductions]

probably because blue and white would blend in

[@keithfaulk1354]

What they don’t mention is that there was a huge tension between the people doing the work and the Indians because of land issues!!!

[@silverdrillpickle7596]

I doubt something like this could be accomplished in 2024. Too many rainbows and hurt pronouns.

[@dolphincliffs8864]

Imagine trying to use electric trucks.

[@deansutherland3570]

😎

[@tysonwalsh8193]

I heard stories of one guy running a skitter, getting eaten by a bear

[@backtothebeatproductions]

the bear could’ve just applied!

[@afterhoursfab842]

This pipe line changed the whole trajectory of my family! My grandfather made enough money to buy land and build a house , so did my father, all thank to this

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I wonder how many Bigfoot encounters happened during the pipeline construction?

[@backtothebeatproductions]

according to my sources, i have no idea

[@LQ-C]

None, because that is a stupid thing to think. You watch too much TV.

[@dennis3602]

It was said, that on the north slope if there wasn't a woman behind each tree there was big foot

[@mr.l2182]

Unfortunately, it was just a drunk hairy naked pipeliner. 😂 lots of beer in those camps

[@jeffreypardy2831]

in 2018 chinese tourists noticed 3 tall people standing on the side of the dalton highway and the problem is that in january people just don't stand on the side of a road in the middle of nowhere,

[@jimellis2118]

Really?Almost sacred land? wtf

[@carlsaganlives6086]

They wanted to say 'never sacred frozen wasteland, unfit for man and beast, now useful thanks to us'....

[@nunyabuziness8421]

I wanted to watch it until I heard the music it's unbearable

[@DDXY2K]

6G

[@willboudreau1187]

I laughed when the host showed all the precious artifacts that had been discovered and preserved by the pipeline surveyors. I guess that commentary didn't age very well, bwa haa!