Pipeline Through the Fens (1968) - extract

[@dorsetengineering]

Downhill short-circuit mig root with co2 shield. Pretty cutting edge for 1968 I think...

[@fredalmond9130]

I'd love to get into this industry. I am buying an everlast mig welder soon and hope to take some courses. Cool stuff.

[@400exNick]

Really enjoyed this video thanks for posting! I’m a third generation welder and it’s cool to see how things were done back around the time my dad got started.

[@Meister-Geek]

you got any tips for a first generation welder of the family?

[@tomasmucha2133]

Great history. These are the type of men that built our Nation. USWA since 1970 local 1010.

[@Robyshileileh]

Thanks alot to whoever posted this,, great video and very educational

[@MsChiefchick]

The more things change, the more they stay the same! Awesome share!

[@MsChiefchick]

cept for safety that is! LOL!

[@williamschlenger1518]

I worked on a 16 inch gas pipeline in New Jersey in 1968.We ran 20 miles of pipe,no canopy, no side booms,4 welders, a 944 Cat.Watching this i realize we were way behind in equipment & never knew it.

[@Namsomnia]

Was on the Braintree Norwich 36in main, fitters mate,when the main dig had finished,i went steel fixing on the valve bases,RB1 operator when there was a pour going on and a chippe stricking the shutters a few days later,that was a Laing job, then went onto the silos,Bury,Wisse,Felsted, finaly a chimney slide on the isle of Grain,enjoyed everyday [i think?]

[@steveh9106]

Absolutely brilliant, very interesting, living in the fens it would be interesting to know where this was filmed and the current depth of the pipe considering fen soil shrinks. superb video. With a commentator that you can understand who speaks proper English, a lot of so called modern presenters should take note of how this gentleman speaks.

[@alanjacks9081]

I ran the 24" North Sea gas pipeline section from Tewkesbury to Ross-on-Wye in 1969 for Corrosion & Welding Engineering. ( CWE ). All manual welding, no Mig. Ted Justin was the spread boss for Lang. Great guy! Frank Wilson was the British Gas boss. Those were the good old pipeline days

[@Esriuptime]

Ted Justin, there's a name from the past, last saw him at Hatton, must have been around mid '80's.

[@alanjacks9081]

@@Esriuptime Ted lent my mate his Merc to go on holiday once. He made a trip to Saudi, early 80's I think. I only found out after he had left

[@andrewnorris2]

Wonderful filming, much enjoyed this extract.

[@philboardman5765]

Patrick (John) Coady later worked with us at PWS from 1969 into the early 70s on Pipelines in the UK, we met up for lunch with him and his family in Marlborough one Christmas a few years ago circa 2009......when I first met him in 1967 ( and Mick & John Smith Frank Green etc etc ) he was one of the youngest pipeline welders around..............probably he still is ! We keep in touch and I am looking forward to meeting up again..............

[@hagenvantronje8822]

The Pipe looks like it came from the Hartlepool 44 inch Pipemill, the coating is Bitumin so probably done by Bredero Price.,(that's a guess) Back in 1968 Pipeline welders doing the root used to be on magabucks but they were not allowed more than a couple of cutouts so you had to be good. A good Welders Mate was probably the key to getting a good weld, I was a Gas Council Inspector back in those days.

[@rickydbryant]

I'm a welder and I like it when they protect that weld

[@markstevansen542]

I've had my everlast welder for a while now and really like welding but welding out in the elements I'm not so sure about.

[@oh_crumpets]

Pays way more tho. I think people much prefer that over a workshop

[@ndupree]

Thats crazy no PPE what so ever!Awesome vid!

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Great Video , Thanks,

[@jamescosta1174]

Like the block brush and ice picks. Old school

[@AlphaFlight]

The real weld welders

[@jamescosta1174]

Oh shit 98 clambuckets, been a while since I have seen one (1994), thanks, great video.

[@ozknmahn8690]

This old videos. Very simple and detailed. Good info.

[@vambreace]

I SAY HELLO!. to the mens and womens whos have forged the USA with very hard work dicipline and passion for they had make. for me this video is a jewel for the new comes generation and with this they can watch how so hard the things were done in the past, and feel more love for his hardly forged country!. thanks for post!!!!!!

[@hotpass79]

the good old days no hard hats

[@TheNick279]

And they were smoking cigs!

[@bethkole7255]

***** still can smoke cigs lol

[@ciscovillanueva4225]

They’re the reason we’re wearing hard hats now lol to many injuries

[@wailnshred]

The narrator talks like a typical pipeliner. :) lol

[@tanielsimpson1415]

Working on a pipelines weldings is my passion my everything am in college now just doing some hards works buts in everything we just put gods firsts

[@stefanking303]

Loved it❤

[@joegardiner4220]

Incredible, what were the pipes used for ? And i wonder how the pipes are holding up to this day in terms of rust etc ?

[@Esriuptime]

Part of UK national gas grid. Still in fine condition, running at 70barg.

[@jeffmomoney]

wow simply amazing..

[@RastaMon2121]

awesome!

[@drumtwo4seven]

Nice 👍

[@Den9082]

Yes. I hear you too Arcstreams. I understand your point perfectly well. I am just trying to explain my reaction to your comment and why I thought that you had thought it was in the US ;-)

[@ejcad]

Great film, brings back memories, any more?

[@andywells397]

did one for bpa in the 80s, potton near bedford

[@andywells397]

have not had a rod in my hand since 1992

[@bigblackdodge6156]

Pretty cool old film. I was on a large natural gas line some time ago and the process is pretty much the same. Track-hoes are sure a lot faster than the drag-lines, though.

[@JungleJim737]

Had no clue mig welding was ever done on pipelines pretty interesting

[@waltersanabria9993]

muy bueno el video

[@whitedirewulfblackdeathblood13]

This the original old skool pipeliners

[@TexasLeverGunner]

I don't care what your CWB book says. 6010's can be run downhill, and are meant to be run downhill. All pipelines welded to API 1104 code are welded downhill with a 6010 root, 6010 hot, and a 70+hippy fill and cap. Get out of your fab shop and do some real welding and you might understand how it works.

[@zx6rlew.150]

6010 can not be run down hill. No just no. In fact no stick rod should be applied by means of (stoveing). Or downhill not even NU5, or celulosic rods.

[@400exNick]

Dp908 I run it downhill all the time. Been a certified welder close to 20 years . I don’t care what the book says

[@jimrhoads9810]

@@zx6rlew.150 you are full of shit

[@panzerfaust7672]

@@zx6rlew.150 LOL The biggest pipeline companies in The Netherlands all run 6010 downhill, what the fuck are you talking

[@vincentgizdich2842]

@@zx6rlew.150 what book is claiming 6010 doesn't run down hill? It is a industry standard.

[@TexasLeverGunner]

Again, wrong. If you learned anything in school, you would know the 1 in 6010 stands for all positions; it can be run downhill and is "designed" to. 7018 (up to unlimited tensile strength) is the only "all position" rod out of the commonly seen rods used for piping in petrochemical that cannot be run downhill due to the composition of the rod and flux.

[@kf8575]

7018 arent the only rod that cant be used for stoving. 7016 cant be run downhill, 6013 cant be run downhill. In fact 6010, 6011 and 8045 are the only rods that CAN be run downhill.

[@pipeline_hank5277]

slowest front end ever lol

[@Den9082]

Well, the title of the video (just down-below the stream) says exactly where it is... But you are right on the point that it is hard to tell just by watching (without reading titles)where the location was. Plus when your AWS comment might not be necessarily relevant to the location of the video and this is really true to the fact but somehow it is automatically associated with the United States as I seriously doubt that British welders would ever check anything with / against AWS at all :-)

[@kf8575]

AWS standards are used all over the world, bit like a "common standard" really, so that everybody is singing from the same songsheet. In Europe and here in the UK we also have EN/ISO standards, such as EN1090 which is also used for a lot, some sections of it for pipework and some for steelwork.

[@dorsetengineering]

Looks like the ford 4d powered lincoln SA on the hotpass/fill/cap.... nice

[@obfuscated3090]

There was an English Ford powered SA?? Interesting.

[@patrickhorvath2684]

I wouldn't know but Ford has plants all over the world building cars n tractors. So why not ?

[@MIKLYHA2012]

Профессионалы !

[@joegardiner4220]

So interesting, are these techniques\methods still used ? And im curious to how many hot passes and super hot passes a welder would of done in a day ? And christ that boling bitumen must of made you gag

[@atlant2566]

watching in 2021 bad ass nobody wears even single hard hat now days all you see are hardhats. Great work to see that now still is being done.

[@johncarson1520]

Barrow to lupton pipeline 1982

[@ShareTalk]

Classic footage .. Was in the game myself

[@justinverbaux6474]

Have things changed much? I'm learning as much as I can and practicing with my powerarc welder in the evenings.

[@kf8575]

Would love to get into the game myself. A guy i work with (does a bit of work a few months here and there with the company i work for) left 18months ago, working on the moving and re-running of lines alongside the A13 in Essex due to the road being widened. I'll stick with plant, nuke and the petro chemical gig for now until something comes up

[@Den9082]

Hey, Arcstreams. This video has nothing to do with AWS. The United Kingdom of Great Britain has never been a part of the United States... :-)))) Good luck with geography! Well done for a 1968 movie though! I am impressed!

[@luckywelder]

Now now children!

[@SDFmacrossSDF]

Best

[@ronaldboyle5619]

Where's your safety harness!!

[@mw3gamer23]

Ronald Boyle this is when real men worked

[@Wanglicker42235]

I wonder how much they were makin back then?

[@jamescosta1174]

Hot dope, I missed out on hot dope, shrink sleeves gone too,

[@estebanvillarreal3729]

We still don’t use Ppe lol

[@guycrawshaw]

I wanna become a pipeline welder

[@yrun989]

💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟

[@lfc011]

bet they got paid alot more than today !

[@GRANA3331]

y was wtf mig welding pipes

[@chrisv2994]

Welding sucks, I highly recommend you do not do this trade

[@dinodina9315]

Hi, I am a welder. I am looking for a job with a degree in welding and 8 years of experience who can help me find a job

[@chadkennedy529]

Not an unemployment wagon in site 🙂

[@justinwallace38]

I wonder how much they got paid back then

[@brianmorrison9066]

Dont matter. What matters is what they could buy for the hours worked, which is more than today, let me tell you.

[@laynercubillos]

0 seguridad

[@jad2484]

Russians!!!!!