I live near this pipeline - so close that I run over it frequently as it's marked on every road it crosses. Twelve weeks is an awesome amount of work. Given the extremes of weather in the Fens though that makes sense.
What cool piece of film very interesting. I wish i had learned to weld when i came out of school big regret of mine. I ended up driving a lorry for thirty years what a waste of time. To anyone coming out of school find something you want to do rather then something you have to do there's a big difference ❤😁
Speaking as somebody that used to divert these pipelines, 12 weeks is about the time to divert a short section these days. Despite modern machinery, computers, GPS surveying etc. it would take years to lay 33 miles of 36" pipeline now.
The men are there to do it buts not that its the planning, the right of way to be agreed upon. Health and safety and of course the environmentalists would make it go at a snails pace
@@inverterville Yes agreed, and we're still injuring people and damaging the environment albeit temporarily. Many youngsters don't want to put in a 12 hour shift of hard graft for 6 days a week though.
I don't know if there were French welders on the job but i knew English welders who were on it, they advertised for welders in the Sheet Metal & Boiler makers union and newspapers, they had an hut on site where you did a test, pass you got the job fail they gave you expenses for getting there and going home.
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I live near this pipeline - so close that I run over it frequently as it's marked on every road it crosses. Twelve weeks is an awesome amount of work. Given the extremes of weather in the Fens though that makes sense.
These 16mm films I love,especially when shown complete.Please carry on the good work of uploading more,where copyrights permit.
Many thanks
That pipeline cut across a wood we owned at Thorney.
What cool piece of film very interesting. I wish i had learned to weld when i came out of school big regret of mine. I ended up driving a lorry for thirty years what a waste of time. To anyone coming out of school find something you want to do rather then something you have to do there's a big difference ❤😁
Cheers for posting, nice little film..
Great to see this film in full at last ! Thanks.
Thanks for posting, nice little film
I LOVE WATCHING THIS, HAVE PROBABLY WATCHED AT LEAST 5 TIMES....opps, sorry about the all caps, I am excited to watch again.....Paul in Florida USA
that fella nearly getting crunched by the second tree at 2:09 oh my.
Speaking as somebody that used to divert these pipelines, 12 weeks is about the time to divert a short section these days. Despite modern machinery, computers, GPS surveying etc. it would take years to lay 33 miles of 36" pipeline now.
The men are there to do it buts not that its the planning, the right of way to be agreed upon. Health and safety and of course the environmentalists would make it go at a snails pace
@@inverterville Yes agreed, and we're still injuring people and damaging the environment albeit temporarily. Many youngsters don't want to put in a 12 hour shift of hard graft for 6 days a week though.
that's the skill we are lacking today, and all those men would have slept in caravans.
We did not live in caravans,We went out too site on a bus from Wisbech,I was the clamp operater from Kings Lynn too
The Man Hammering the stake into the ground is Melvin David Wiles..
Was that a old barbergreen ditch machine, painted red
Interesting..
No Hi Viz and Few Hard Hats However did they live to tell the tale.
Men were still men back then.
Probably didn't! This is before the HSAWA and over 1,000 a day died at work
Pip Pip Cheerio
Bob’s your Uncle
Quite a few of the welders looked foreign. Was this a fact?
Just seen another video of the operation and it appears that they were French.
I don't know if there were French welders on the job but i knew English welders who were on it, they advertised for welders in the Sheet Metal & Boiler makers union and newspapers, they had an hut on site where you did a test, pass you got the job fail they gave you expenses for getting there and going home.
Lind