TBRider

8 hours ago, Tim-ANC said:

Oh damm TB, don't burn it to you know what it is 🤭

I'm sure there has been some birds eye maple gone into my stove....

And I'll burn anything that fits into the stove....

Yea there are a few sticks of white birch in the pile, I prefer yellow birch over the white, what conifer you mean, there are jack pines and spruce, the big one is a pine, not sure, don't know my trees that well....lol

I just cut them as is for the most part, climb on the pile, start at the top and work my way down. I'm totally shocked that the truck driver came down the driveway, bought it all off a guy, $2,000 for 15 chord delivered,  semi had about an hr drive from where it was cut.

Got another 4 chord or so on the other side of the yard to cut up also, so I have about 20 chord here.....

On 3/12/2021 at 6:04 AM, _Wilson_™ said:

I'm not sure what the deal is with this. 

I'd say he flipped the block over then got tossed off the bike onto the block.....

Got myself another project to get done

Wow....well we know its a 2007 trx 420 fe though.....

13 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

we've had a warm up here 75 yesterday, the drying has begun, whether farmers will start planting early, remains to be seen, most start around April 15th -+ looks like another front movin in with the chance of severe weather. 

All those arrows are pointing towards my house.....lol

Was 12C here today, everything is  melting fast....

I'd do it, that lift can handle the weight....lol

Ice isn't thick up here either,  didnt get cold enough for any length of time before the big dump of snow.

20 hours ago, rustynut2 said:

I’m an anal ! and like a clean bike. Try the pledge, then maybe the sc1

My bikes usually get a wash when we play in the river....lol

I need to build this now...

2 minutes ago, _Wilson_™ said:

there is also a single prop  airplane .... that flys the same route as the pipe line runs, all the way to the sub / pump station in culleoka just a few miles from my home, which i never have asked about, i take it, it's messuring or scanning the pipe line, i do get letters from the company with an emergency number to call, which i hope i never have to use.... lol 

Yea, a 48" natural gas pipeline that is 50 miles long gives off quite a bang. They have to have Emergency Shut Downs now in the lines.it took them 12 hrs to bleed down the pressure on the pipeline before we could cut it open to replace it. The yellow one in the pic was running at about 700 psi when I was sandblasting it. They knocked the pressure down for me to work on it.....lol

8 minutes ago, _Wilson_™ said:

cool!

 

yes, its right beside the road, but there's also a plastic gas line marker, but not on the other farm across the road, just our side. 

Usually there are markers on both sides of the road, about 3 ft to the side of where the pipe is buried, they don't put the markers on top so someone can't push the markersinto the pipe.

16 minutes ago, _Wilson_™ said:

that reminds me of when texas eastern dug up, and replaced some gas pipe line on one farm we own, i was a kid, so i don't recall much, but the heavy equipment like in your last pic, but to look at the land now, you'd never know it was ever done, except for vent pipes (pic) which are still there, did such a great job, didnt even mess up the spring branch close by. 

 

TBRider you should take a look at this thread. 

 

https://atvhonda.com/topic/551-what-pays-the-bills/

 

I don't think that's a vent, more of a marker for location, is that beside a road?

And I posted that I pipelined in that thread....lol

Sidebooms like this one lower pipe into ditch....

We are digging this one out for replacement at the time, worked on that same line 3 times with 2 companies within 2 years, same line was washed out in the 2013 floods

1 hour ago, PROV said:

Not in this case. It is welded as far as you can see and then they are setting it in a trench.

They don't lower pipe into ditch with stationary cranes and pipe cradles, the pipe in my picture is being pulled towards the sideboom in the front.

Just now, PROV said:

The welds are x-rayed. Then they pressure test them. When they gang sling them like that they lift, trench and move on down the line like you're burying a long snake. The whole line goes underground.

The drill guys know what angle they come up at, so they are feeding the pipe into the hole at the same angle....

If they do an air test on a pipeline that size a compressor on the deck of a 53ft high boy shows up...

4 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

sounds  like a very interesting job, how do they do the leek test ? 

They do either an air test or fill it with water and pressure it up, make sure it holds for 24 hrs. On smaller size pipe we used to soap test them at 100 psi, or shrink a heat sleeve over the welds, that is messy if there is a leak but its neat to see the sleeves balloon. On pipe that size all the welds are done with a machine now and x-rayed then there is a 2 part epoxy coating applied.

I started pipelining in 97 and have worked on lines from 2"-48".

17 minutes ago, PROV said:

That's actually how they install pipeline. Weld it first and then dig it in. They are doing one that size in our area now.

Thats part of an install, on big jobs they have hundreds of crossings like this one.

2 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

I am thinking they are threading that pipeline thru a bore , looks like  they have rollers on the lifting cradles 

Yea, that would be the pull section, and by the sizes of the cranes its heavy wall pipe.

Those cradles are heavy, I had a hard time moving them around without a piece of iron...

This is just an awesome pic.... looks like a river crossing bore, directional drilling...

12 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

yeah, that would be a shocking experience, lol, i would still like to know the thinking behind that idea, and also this one. 

If your tall enough, you just pee in the sink.....😆 🤣 😂

Lynx tracks not far from home here, they are about 4" wide.

1 minute ago, _Wilson_™ said:

450 es models not shifting right because of the meters being disconnected ? any idea why ? any other es bikes effected ? I'd like to read up on this issue, if you have any online info, a couple threads here, might be related to this other none shifting issue. 

Too many coors lights will make them shift funny also....