Pipeline Through the Fens (1968)

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 4 жыл бұрын

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 10 жыл бұрын

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

@fredalmond9130 7 жыл бұрын

I'd love to get into this industry. I am buying an everlast mig welder soon and hope to take some courses. Cool stuff.

@steveh9106 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@tomasmucha2133 3 жыл бұрын

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

@400exNick 5 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Robyshileileh 12 жыл бұрын

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

@MsChiefchick 9 жыл бұрын

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

@MsChiefchick 9 жыл бұрын

cept for safety that is! LOL!

@Namsomnia 7 жыл бұрын

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?]

@andrewnorris2 12 жыл бұрын

Wonderful filming, much enjoyed this extract.

@philboardman5765 8 жыл бұрын

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

@rickydbryant 12 жыл бұрын

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

@ozknmahn8690 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AlphaFlight 11 жыл бұрын

The real weld welders

@mikekavanagh8952 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video , Thanks,

@alanjacks9081 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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

@alanjacks9081 4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@jamescosta1174 4 жыл бұрын

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

@markstevansen542 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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

@jamescosta1174 4 жыл бұрын

Like the block brush and ice picks. Old school

@hagenvantronje8822 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@wailnshred 12 жыл бұрын

The narrator talks like a typical pipeliner. :) lol

@RastaMon2121 9 жыл бұрын

awesome!

@jeffmomoney 12 жыл бұрын

wow simply amazing..

@ndupree 12 жыл бұрын

Thats crazy no PPE what so ever!Awesome vid!

@stefanking303 2 жыл бұрын

Loved it❤

@hotpass79 10 жыл бұрын

the good old days no hard hats

@TheNick279 10 жыл бұрын

And they were smoking cigs!

@bethkole7255 9 жыл бұрын

***** still can smoke cigs lol

@ciscovillanueva4225 4 жыл бұрын

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

@bigblackdodge6156 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@vambreace 12 жыл бұрын

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!!!!!!

@drumtwo4seven 2 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍

@waltersanabria9993 3 жыл бұрын

muy bueno el video

@tanielsimpson1415 5 жыл бұрын

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

@JungleJim737 3 жыл бұрын

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

@joegardiner4220 4 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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

@whitedirewulfblackdeathblood13 3 жыл бұрын

This the original old skool pipeliners

@ejcad 8 жыл бұрын

Great film, brings back memories, any more?

@andywells397 6 жыл бұрын

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

@andywells397 6 жыл бұрын

have not had a rod in my hand since 1992

@Den9082 11 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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

@MIKLYHA2012 10 жыл бұрын

Профессионалы !

@johncarson1520 7 жыл бұрын

Barrow to lupton pipeline 1982

@SDFmacrossSDF 12 жыл бұрын

Best

@pipeline_hank5277 4 жыл бұрын

slowest front end ever lol

@dorsetengineering 10 жыл бұрын

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

@obfuscated3090 6 жыл бұрын

There was an English Ford powered SA?? Interesting.

@patrickhorvath2684 3 жыл бұрын

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

@TexasLeverGunner 11 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@luckywelder 10 жыл бұрын

Now now children!

@atlant2566 3 жыл бұрын

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 11 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ronaldboyle5619 8 жыл бұрын

Where's your safety harness!!

@mw3gamer23 6 жыл бұрын

Ronald Boyle this is when real men worked

@Den9082 11 жыл бұрын

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!

@jamescosta1174 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ShareTalk 8 жыл бұрын

Classic footage .. Was in the game myself

@justinverbaux6474 8 жыл бұрын

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

@kf8575 2 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much they were makin back then?

@guycrawshaw 11 жыл бұрын

I wanna become a pipeline welder

@estebanvillarreal3729 3 жыл бұрын

We still don’t use Ppe lol

@TexasLeverGunner 11 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

@@zx6rlew.150 you are full of shit

@panzerfaust7672 5 жыл бұрын

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

@vincentgizdich2842 4 жыл бұрын

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