dieseldave
Senior Member
A month or so back I was on a job up in PA putting in 11000 ft of anode for corrosion control on a gas pipeline. I was on a 650J Deere backfilling and plowing snow ahead of the crew when necessary. The excavator operator started out with a 75 Deere which worked well in the swamps but switched out to a 120 when the going got tougher. Good thing he did, because he ran into some good-sized rocks, and had to dig up a few hundred feet of access road which had been plowed and was frozen pretty deep. Every so often he had to dig over to the pipe, expose it all the way around and weld connections for the anode to it. Pretty interesting to me, first time I've ever worked around this sort of thing.