Oilfield electrician here. We use that same process to supply water to our well completions. 10 inch typically. Long time subscriber. Love the channel 👍👍
Thanks Andy, interesting to see variety of jobs related to your new parlor construction. 👍 FYI - I think Brandon was a plastic pipe welder back in his Amtrak days (just before he drove 18 wheelers)...NO JOKE! 😁
Butt Fusion PE pipe. You align them than face them flush. Iron to melt. Then compress them. We have tested fused section up to 800 psi, the pipe side wall failed but not the fusion. 47 years in the natural gas pipeline field.
Thanks Andy. I was getting curious as you haven't said anything about the well in sometime. Y'all sure got it goin on in grand fashion, hooking up thd new well. Now drill for gas and be a utility dustrict all yer own. Thanks, blessings👍🇺🇲
That is a great water pipe delivery system for the new/existing complex's needs. We used that on a 2+ mile distant from a well to a water bottling plant I was subcontracted on. Thanks for the updates.
Hi from oz Andy. When i saw the pipe and welders i knew exactly what was going on. Years ago on family farm i designed and built a line 5.5 km long(3.5 miles) with 72 m lift(about 225 ft) delivering 1.5 litre per sec(1200 gal per hr).Hd to use 75 mm id(3 inch pipe in 200 m rolls. If used joiners needed 25 at $75 each (over 1800) so bought small 12 volt unit for 900. Great unit and had lot of use for ot since.
One heck of an operation they have, glad they let you video them. I was going to say, I hope you were able to retrieve that drone, bad trees LOL. Great video as always, cheers :)
I was a contractor in the oilfield when this pipe system came out. We tried to break the welds with two winch Cats. It was impossible to destroy the connection we crushed the pipe but couldn’t break it
The first time I saw a weld I thought there’s no way that would hold. We had a 6” river bore that got hung up pulling the pipe. We had a D6, 700 Deere and 2 excavators pulling. It stretched to about the size of a 4” but never broke.
Back in 1999 I anchored 15 in waterpipes in the ground rhat was weded the same way for a sewewr treatment plant. 2 pipes 15 niles long. Every 200 yards there is a cement manhole sitting on top of the 2 pipes with water control valves connected inside these pipes so if something goes wrong they can turn off the water to fix the pipe or the valve. I started in July and went until the middle ofJanuary of the 2000. Fun job by my self. Pay was awesome too
That's a good job for Andy being in their way leaving your pickup in their way and holding that camera so the viewers can all get a good look at what you do
It’s a facer that shaves the pipe ends so they match. The irons are 500 degrees that heat the pipe. If it’s fused properly you will pull the pipe in two before the joint breaks. That’s extremely tough pipe.
Hi Andy ! this is a big size pipe this will carry a big volume a water . Good job everybody ! Thanks Andy for your time and everybody have a good day at the farm ! 🙋♂️
That pipe welder is quite amazing here in Northern Michigan we've had a lot of oil and gas extraction and I saw them putting some pipe together like that. Don't know if it was the same kind of pipe because I don't know if they would use the same pipe, but they used the same joining method. Cool video!!
I use to weld that pipe together back 25 years ago we used the black and yellow for gas pipe we would weld fuse whatever you want to call it I would usually weld two miles a day together and we would bury a mile of it sometimes more sometimes less doing it in the mountains was pretty East we used a tesmic rock trincher well and the biggest ditch witch on tires was I think a r100 and used a 325 cat exavtor I miss it in one way but in another way I don’t but stay safe out there you and the family and keep the good videos coming
Interesting Andy. Well be be and help with water on the whole farm? Or is just going to be for the new parlor? How's that going to work for pressure? Must have a Monster Pump at the bottom of the well?
All the barns behind the shop is the ones you all use now right and all the other barns and silos are the old barns and where the parlor use to be right or am I wrong I was trying to remember when you done the shop tour well farm tour I’d love to be able to come and see your place and visit with you all and I wish you could get you a little free time and take us on tour of the whole place I know we can’t see the parlor or where the new calf’s are at but I’d like to see all around you and your family sure have a beautiful place and you all have took a pretty good size dairy farm and made it into a big dairy farm and kept it in the family and I hope it can stay in your family for as long as they want it because a lot of people don’t understand or they think it was all just handed to you or the government gave you all kinds of grants or just handed out money hand over feet they don’t grasp the concept of the blood sweat and tears you and all your family has put into that farm all the long hours the sleepless nights worrying about the crops are they going to make it cows getting sick dieing the electricity going off generators quit all the milk getting destroyed spending a few million on equipment payroll Uncle Sam with his hands out God Bless a farmer and a trucker with out God the farmer and the truckers we wouldn’t be we would be hungry and would be naked and living under a rock keep up the good work Andy and you all stay safe and keep the great videos coming
The size is inside pipe size(IPS) plumbing 1/2" is half inch I:d,acr tubing(refrigeration copper ) is o:d! So 1/2" plumbing copper per say,would be 5/8"o:d! 3/4" plumbing,=7/8" o:d etc
We have a Cadman hard hose reel that has 2200 feet of plastic pipe on it. They can weld it back together if we have it break. A company in Toronto makes the pipe
How deep your guys water lines gotta be in your area? In the polar vortex of mt its 6 plus feet, i suppose lines like that are for the most part always running something? Quite a project, keep up the good work!
Hi Andy. With all the roof area of the Cow Barns, would it not make sense to install a rainwater recovery holding pond for your water use? You must go through a lot of water in the milking parlor clean down every day.
Out here in Wyoming they are pulling all of that big black poly pipe out of the ground they go about 300 yd ,dig down and cut it and then they have a bulldozer or a excavator with a huge winch pull it up out of the ground they call it Prairie logging now that the methane is pretty much dead out here
On our farm years ago National Grid used that process for the to install natural gas line down the state road.. They rented our field for the contractor to have an office and yard space. It was an adventure to watch 6 semis show up to unload pipe on a Monday morning when the crane arrived.
Maybe you mentioned it and I missed it, what is the pressure rating of that pipe? I retired from the local municipality water and wastewater dept so I handled a lot of Blue Brute, Ductile Irin Pipe etc.But not that black fused pipe.
We don’t really know why we put the well there….. it was either we put in a lot of pipe or build the barn near the well…. At this particular time it was easier to leave the barns where they are and just put in a lot of pipe…..
Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada great videos thanks for sharing with all of us 😊
Oilfield electrician here. We use that same process to supply water to our well completions. 10 inch typically. Long time subscriber. Love the channel 👍👍
Thanks Andy, interesting to see variety of jobs related to your new parlor construction. 👍
FYI - I think Brandon was a plastic pipe welder back in his Amtrak days (just before he drove 18 wheelers)...NO JOKE! 😁
Butt Fusion PE pipe.
You align them than face them flush.
Iron to melt. Then compress them.
We have tested fused section up to 800 psi, the pipe side wall failed but not the fusion.
47 years in the natural gas pipeline field.
Another good one Andy I remember when you drill the well last year 🇺🇲👍🚜🐄
Thanks for the update. I remember, last summer when you did the well.
Thanks for taking us along Andy.
Thanks Andy. I was getting curious as you haven't said anything about the well in sometime.
Y'all sure got it goin on in grand fashion, hooking up thd new well. Now drill for gas and be a utility dustrict all yer own. Thanks, blessings👍🇺🇲
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos Andy, i really enjoy them.
Imagine if your farm expands as much in the next 20 years as it did in the last 20 years
That is a great water pipe delivery system for the new/existing complex's needs. We used that on a 2+ mile distant from a well to a water bottling plant I was subcontracted on.
Thanks for the updates.
Hi from oz Andy. When i saw the pipe and welders i knew exactly what was going on. Years ago on family farm i designed and built a line 5.5 km long(3.5 miles) with 72 m lift(about 225 ft) delivering 1.5 litre per sec(1200 gal per hr).Hd to use 75 mm id(3 inch pipe in 200 m rolls. If used joiners needed 25 at $75 each (over 1800) so bought small 12 volt unit for 900. Great unit and had lot of use for ot since.
One heck of an operation they have, glad they let you video them. I was going to say, I hope you were able to retrieve that drone, bad trees LOL. Great video as always, cheers :)
I was a contractor in the oilfield when this pipe system came out. We tried to break the welds with two winch Cats. It was impossible to destroy the connection we crushed the pipe but couldn’t break it
The first time I saw a weld I thought there’s no way that would hold. We had a 6” river bore that got hung up pulling the pipe. We had a D6, 700 Deere and 2 excavators pulling. It stretched to about the size of a 4” but never broke.
That was very interesting to see the water line project and joining the pipe sections good video !
It is inflation shrinkage. You paid for 6” but in reality you got 5”.
Everyone always says that it's 6" when in reality it's just 5". 😂
Back in 1999 I anchored 15 in waterpipes in the ground rhat was weded the same way for a sewewr treatment plant. 2 pipes 15 niles long. Every 200 yards there is a cement manhole sitting on top of the 2 pipes with water control valves connected inside these pipes so if something goes wrong they can turn off the water to fix the pipe or the valve. I started in July and went until the middle ofJanuary of the 2000. Fun job by my self. Pay was awesome too
That's a good job for Andy being in their way leaving your pickup in their way and holding that camera so the viewers can all get a good look at what you do
Forgot to mention it's his farm
And who's family writes the checks that inturn pay the employees @rodger996
It’s a facer that shaves the pipe ends so they match. The irons are 500 degrees that heat the pipe. If it’s fused properly you will pull the pipe in two before the joint breaks. That’s extremely tough pipe.
A very kool process and im sure a hell of a lot of money 💰
Thank you for another great video. Cheers
Amazing stuff out there! And you are on the cutting edge of it. Great video, Andy. To bad you didn't get the alfalfa cut before they did it.
Impressive job Andy enjoyed your video have a great day.
Another great content vid by andy hourigan
Hi Andy !
this is a big size pipe this will carry a big volume a water .
Good job everybody !
Thanks Andy for your time and everybody have a good day at the farm ! 🙋♂️
That is the same way we do gas line but only our welds have to be inspected
How they put the pipe together so cool 😎 Andy thanks 👍🏻 for sharing it Bud Hi everyone from northwest Missouri
Good engineering on the open trench put in all utilities 👍🚜
that's a big volume of pipe. What I mean is the well will take a bit of time to fill the pile 😄
That pipe welder is quite amazing here in Northern Michigan we've had a lot of oil and gas extraction and I saw them putting some pipe together like that. Don't know if it was the same kind of pipe because I don't know if they would use the same pipe, but they used the same joining method. Cool video!!
Now THAT is a water line! Wow.
I use to weld that pipe together back 25 years ago we used the black and yellow for gas pipe we would weld fuse whatever you want to call it I would usually weld two miles a day together and we would bury a mile of it sometimes more sometimes less doing it in the mountains was pretty East we used a tesmic rock trincher well and the biggest ditch witch on tires was I think a r100 and used a 325 cat exavtor I miss it in one way but in another way I don’t but stay safe out there you and the family and keep the good videos coming
Seen plastic pipe fusion on Gold Rush. Great invention!
6" OD (outside diameter of pipe) very cool process. I've done small bore pipe like this on a job. I had to use fittings. Bummer the drone crashed.
Amazing talent , working hard , what equipment they use , stay safe !! Safety first .
A very interesting process! Thanks for filming it! 👍😎
Great Vid 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Interesting Andy. Well be be and help with water on the whole farm? Or is just going to be for the new parlor? How's that going to work for pressure? Must have a Monster Pump at the bottom of the well?
Thanks Andy.
It would be neat to know how long it takes for the Water to fill that Pipe ??
All the barns behind the shop is the ones you all use now right and all the other barns and silos are the old barns and where the parlor use to be right or am I wrong I was trying to remember when you done the shop tour well farm tour I’d love to be able to come and see your place and visit with you all and I wish you could get you a little free time and take us on tour of the whole place I know we can’t see the parlor or where the new calf’s are at but I’d like to see all around you and your family sure have a beautiful place and you all have took a pretty good size dairy farm and made it into a big dairy farm and kept it in the family and I hope it can stay in your family for as long as they want it because a lot of people don’t understand or they think it was all just handed to you or the government gave you all kinds of grants or just handed out money hand over feet they don’t grasp the concept of the blood sweat and tears you and all your family has put into that farm all the long hours the sleepless nights worrying about the crops are they going to make it cows getting sick dieing the electricity going off generators quit all the milk getting destroyed spending a few million on equipment payroll Uncle Sam with his hands out God Bless a farmer and a trucker with out God the farmer and the truckers we wouldn’t be we would be hungry and would be naked and living under a rock keep up the good work Andy and you all stay safe and keep the great videos coming
Be interesting to see the pump set up when it’s done. 3500 feet is a pretty good push up hill. Just the wire for that system is going to be expensive
Good video!
Do they pressure test that pipeline before covering it up to check for leaks?
That black HDPE pipe is the best you can get.
The size is inside pipe size(IPS) plumbing 1/2" is half inch I:d,acr tubing(refrigeration copper ) is o:d! So 1/2" plumbing copper per say,would be 5/8"o:d! 3/4" plumbing,=7/8" o:d etc
We have a Cadman hard hose reel that has 2200 feet of plastic pipe on it. They can weld it back together if we have it break. A company in Toronto makes the pipe
How deep your guys water lines gotta be in your area? In the polar vortex of mt its 6 plus feet, i suppose lines like that are for the most part always running something? Quite a project, keep up the good work!
They do that with 6 foot pipe too. If the pipe lays in the sun it will grow almost a foot.
Amazing technology fusing that pipe.
That’s some good looking alfalfa.
Hi Andy. With all the roof area of the Cow Barns, would it not make sense to install a rainwater recovery holding pond for your water use? You must go through a lot of water in the milking parlor clean down every day.
Out here in Wyoming they are pulling all of that big black poly pipe out of the ground they go about 300 yd ,dig down and cut it and then they have a bulldozer or a excavator with a huge winch pull it up out of the ground they call it Prairie logging now that the methane is pretty much dead out here
High voltage down to the well with a transformer at the well ??? Thats a long way down there
On our farm years ago National Grid used that process for the to install natural gas line down the state road.. They rented our field for the contractor to have an office and yard space. It was an adventure to watch 6 semis show up to unload pipe on a Monday morning when the crane arrived.
Maybe you mentioned it and I missed it, what is the pressure rating of that pipe? I retired from the local municipality water and wastewater dept so I handled a lot of Blue Brute, Ductile Irin Pipe etc.But not that black fused pipe.
800+
Dang that alfalfa looks about ready to cut
Never a dull day!
Andy how deep do you have to dig the trenches in your area?
Watched a coal cleaning plant put together in the 80 that used the same tech
Was that a single line or double water line
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO ANDY 😊
It’s amazing how technology has come over the years
Thanks ferthecomealongAndy !
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I use a lot of 3in for fertilizer. Driscoll is what Is called
You can't be on well service for that big of supply line if you are i can't imagine the well size to keep up and GPM pump for that size?
50 gpm
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I make that pipe. I’ve never seen it put together though that’s awesome
Where does the pipe come from
@@timothyhanneman7715 The plant I work at is in Maryland
do u still need silos if u use the bunker system
He still uses silos for high moisture shell corn.
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj so the bunkers does not keep moistury it drys it more
@@jameslist7385 No, the silo's don't allow as much oxygen into the HMSC, reducing spoilage. And HMSC doesn't pack like forage does. Gravity is a +.
Why is the well way over there? Maybe the aquifer is really deep near the barn?
And it is cheaper to pump the water horizontally than the price to dig a big well really deep near the barn perhaps?
We don’t really know why we put the well there….. it was either we put in a lot of pipe or build the barn near the well…. At this particular time it was easier to leave the barns where they are and just put in a lot of pipe…..
Quite the process
How do they check for wield leaks Andt?
Hello!
Is it expensive
if that is hay there in the back ground it will not be long and you will be chopping the stuff
He said this was recorded on 17th that will be a lot heavier now and probably already being cut his videos are always a bit behind.
Its an expensive gamble if the well dries up, safer tapping into the states water infrastructure
You say that with such confidence
Well at least it’s not in outer space like that other one
its called but fusion you also get electric fusion
Biden flation their shrinking pipe i.d. down to save money😂