Pipeline Through the Fens (1968) - extract

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  • Pipeline Through the Fens (1968) - extract.
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    This striking documentary focuses on the construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland. 'Pipeline Through the Fens' was filmed during the 12 weeks in 1968 it took to lay 43 miles of pipeline under the county.
    The film (made on behalf of The Gas Council) focuses on the considerable engineering achievement involved in linking sections of pipe (each one 40 feet long, 36 inches wide and weighing 4.5 tons) and burying them 9ft below the surface. The workers scrupulous care is understandable - you really wouldn't want to be trying to find a leak later on! (Emma Bonsall)
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  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @dorsetengineering
    @dorsetengineering 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @fredalmond9130
      @fredalmond9130 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
    @400exNick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

    • @nickrollings4419
      @nickrollings4419 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @tomasmucha2133
    @tomasmucha2133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Robyshileileh
    @Robyshileileh 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @steveh9106
    @steveh9106 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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.

  • @andrewnorris2
    @andrewnorris2 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful filming, much enjoyed this extract.

  • @Namsomnia
    @Namsomnia 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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?]

  • @MsChiefchick
    @MsChiefchick 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @MsChiefchick
      @MsChiefchick 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      cept for safety that is! LOL!

  • @ozknmahn8690
    @ozknmahn8690 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mikekavanagh8952
    @mikekavanagh8952 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video , Thanks,

  • @philboardman5765
    @philboardman5765 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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..............

  • @jamescosta1174
    @jamescosta1174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @rickydbryant
    @rickydbryant 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @alanjacks9081
    @alanjacks9081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @Esriuptime 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @alanjacks9081
      @alanjacks9081 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @wailnshred
    @wailnshred 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The narrator talks like a typical pipeliner. :) lol

  • @AlphaFlight
    @AlphaFlight 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The real weld welders

  • @RastaMon2121
    @RastaMon2121 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    awesome!

  • @stefanking303
    @stefanking303 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved it❤

  • @hagenvantronje8822
    @hagenvantronje8822 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @jeffmomoney
    @jeffmomoney 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow simply amazing..

  • @markstevansen542
    @markstevansen542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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
      @oh_crumpets 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ndupree
    @ndupree 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thats crazy no PPE what so ever!Awesome vid!

  • @drumtwo4seven
    @drumtwo4seven 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice 👍

  • @jamescosta1174
    @jamescosta1174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like the block brush and ice picks. Old school

  • @waltersanabria9993
    @waltersanabria9993 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    muy bueno el video

  • @bigblackdodge6156
    @bigblackdodge6156 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @hotpass79
    @hotpass79 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    the good old days no hard hats

    • @TheNick279
      @TheNick279 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And they were smoking cigs!

    • @bethkole7255
      @bethkole7255 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ***** still can smoke cigs lol

    • @ciscovillanueva4225
      @ciscovillanueva4225 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @vambreace
    @vambreace 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!!!!!!

  • @tanielsimpson1415
    @tanielsimpson1415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @Den9082
    @Den9082 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 ;-)

  • @joegardiner4220
    @joegardiner4220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
      @Esriuptime 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ejcad
    @ejcad 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great film, brings back memories, any more?

    • @andywells397
      @andywells397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @andywells397
      @andywells397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      have not had a rod in my hand since 1992

  • @JungleJim737
    @JungleJim737 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @SDFmacrossSDF
    @SDFmacrossSDF 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best

  • @MIKLYHA2012
    @MIKLYHA2012 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Профессионалы !

  • @johncarson1520
    @johncarson1520 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Barrow to lupton pipeline 1982

  • @pipeline_hank5277
    @pipeline_hank5277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    slowest front end ever lol

  • @Den9082
    @Den9082 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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
      @kf8575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @joegardiner4220
    @joegardiner4220 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @dorsetengineering
    @dorsetengineering 10 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @obfuscated3090
      @obfuscated3090 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was an English Ford powered SA?? Interesting.

    • @patrickhorvath2684
      @patrickhorvath2684 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @whitedirewulfblackdeathblood13
    @whitedirewulfblackdeathblood13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This the original old skool pipeliners

  • @ronaldboyle5619
    @ronaldboyle5619 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Where's your safety harness!!

    • @mw3gamer23
      @mw3gamer23 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ronald Boyle this is when real men worked

  • @TexasLeverGunner
    @TexasLeverGunner 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
      @kf8575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @jamescosta1174
    @jamescosta1174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @luckywelder
    @luckywelder 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now now children!

  • @atlant2566
    @atlant2566 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @Den9082
    @Den9082 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

  • @TexasLeverGunner
    @TexasLeverGunner 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @zx6rlew.150 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @400exNick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @jimrhoads9810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zx6rlew.150 you are full of shit

    • @panzerfaust7672
      @panzerfaust7672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @vincentgizdich2842
      @vincentgizdich2842 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ShareTalk
    @ShareTalk 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Classic footage .. Was in the game myself

    • @justinverbaux6474
      @justinverbaux6474 8 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @kf8575
      @kf8575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @Wanglicker42235
    @Wanglicker42235 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder how much they were makin back then?

  • @yrun989
    @yrun989 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟

  • @guycrawshaw
    @guycrawshaw 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wanna become a pipeline welder

  • @estebanvillarreal3729
    @estebanvillarreal3729 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We still don’t use Ppe lol

  • @lfc011
    @lfc011 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bet they got paid alot more than today !

  • @GRANA3331
    @GRANA3331 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    y was wtf mig welding pipes

  • @chadkennedy529
    @chadkennedy529 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not an unemployment wagon in site 🙂

  • @dinodina9315
    @dinodina9315 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @justinwallace38
    @justinwallace38 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder how much they got paid back then

    • @brianmorrison9066
      @brianmorrison9066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @laynercubillos
    @laynercubillos 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    0 seguridad

  • @chrisv2994
    @chrisv2994 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jad2484
    @jad2484 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Russians!!!!!