The Pipeline

[stock]

Now there you go saying that the daily grind is boring, well we only get snow /frost of any consequence every 40 years or so and the most recent event one was in 2010.
At the moment we are having a lot of storms and a huge amount of rain land here is carrying close to twice the average normal rainfall, winter lakes everywhere and river breaking their banks etc etc. At present the temps are in the low single figures between 2-6 oC.

So areyou feeding hay or silage to the beasties?

 

[oldtanker]

Stock hay. round bales.



That's the feeding/blowing tractor.

Bales are about 1500 pounds.

Rick

 

[stock]

Who made the tractor?

 

[oldtanker]

Stock, It an IH Farmall 1206 Diesel, 1966 model with an aftermarket steel and glass cab.

http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/004/6/7/4678-farmall-1206.html

Little info on the tractor in the link.

Rick

 

[HEO Girl]

Ok Stock. 17 dig ups! The pig found 17 of them suckers and in some pretty inconvenient places. They were deciding on whether or not to shut down for the winter or finish it. Well the weather is not cooperating so they are shutting down in 2 or 3 weeks. They ended up having to move a station due to some apartment complexes being built and the station is to close so it will be built down the hill. So at the moment they are doing their dig ups and rough clean ups and will be back in the spring.

 

[Buckethead]

Well as I stated above he called me, said he's going to steward down in Mississippi, said he'd have work for at least 4 months for me if I wanted to come down and oil, starts in the spring. Same company, different spreadman. Supposedly he's not a nice spreadman either. Oh well I'm used to butt heads, where's the fun if everyone got along anyways? He said I'd have to let him know for sure by the end of Feb if I was coming and I'd be in the group of first hire ons.
Helllllloooooooo oilers book .

I think that is an excellent way to learn about equipment. Most of the old operators I knew started out that way, especially crane operators. You will learn more by lubricating the machines, and just being around them in general in one day on an actual job than in a month of school. It's a dying job, and that's a shame because without that opportunity it's so much harder for young people to break in. Keep paying the laborers dues until you get an actual book, I mean one with the plastic card, not just a piece of paper. Even then maybe keep the laborer's book, I don't think there's any rule against it. I have met guys who have both,(pipeliners like you) and AFAIK, no one said anything about it.

 

[HEO Girl]

Oh I'd keep the laborers book. I get a card when I renew my laborers book. I've seen some who have plastic ones and others who have kind of like cardboard that they stick in the plastic insert (what I got). I don't believe there is any rule against having multiple books. I want to keep myself open to all opportunities, never know when you'll need to fall back to a laborer when there's no oilers work you can get.

 

[fixou812]

Round Beam vs Pipe Fighters

Hi HEO Girl since this seems to be the pipeline section I thought it would be invaluable
to the others here to read this link. Maybe you or someone would be so kind as to
post a link because I'm still learning how to post pictures.
Sewerpipehistory.org pdf "Long Pipe" best regards Fix

 

[Buckethead]

Hi HEO Girl since this seems to be the pipeline section I thought it would be invaluable
to the others here to read this link. Maybe you or someone would be so kind as to
post a link because I'm still learning how to post pictures.
Sewerpipehistory.org pdf "Long Pipe" best regards Fix

Do you mean this http://www.sewerhistory.org/index.html.

 

[fixou812]

Hi Bucket thanks but no that's not it maybe try to Google sewerpipe
long pipe