I live near this pipeline - so close that I run over it frequently as it's marked on every road it crosses. Twelve weeks is an awesome amount of work. Given the extremes of weather in the Fens though that makes sense.
My old man was a welder,who worked on all the new pipe lines from Alaska to Russia and a lot of the middle east countrys in the 60s n 70s. Always remember him saying about how important it was your weld passed the X Ray. Good too see what he ment.
What cool piece of film very interesting. I wish i had learned to weld when i came out of school big regret of mine. I ended up driving a lorry for thirty years what a waste of time. To anyone coming out of school find something you want to do rather then something you have to do there's a big difference ❤😁
Speaking as somebody that used to divert these pipelines, 12 weeks is about the time to divert a short section these days. Despite modern machinery, computers, GPS surveying etc. it would take years to lay 33 miles of 36" pipeline now.
The men are there to do it buts not that its the planning, the right of way to be agreed upon. Health and safety and of course the environmentalists would make it go at a snails pace
@@inverterville Yes agreed, and we're still injuring people and damaging the environment albeit temporarily. Many youngsters don't want to put in a 12 hour shift of hard graft for 6 days a week though.
@@aib01606 days 🤔 were you part time 😉 you’re right though, we regularly do 14 to 16 hour days especially during summer, the young ones just can’t do it like we used to. They struggle to even turn up on time
@@benm9465 Nope, just a measure of how long it takes now. You can't get much of a production line going on small scale jobs. Nothing can be done till the site is fenced off, surveyed and stripped. These guys had surveyors that only needed to be a week ahead of the fencing crew, who in turn were a week ahead of the stripping crew and they a week ahead of the stringing crew and so on. So much of their work could be done simultaneously and not so easy when you can see from end to end of the job and you haven't got the space to flood it with recourses. When you're not working on that scale you're a month doing nothing other than setting up your site establishment, stripping and materials management. It's the same story at the other end when you demobilise as reinstatement and scrap removal takes as long.
I don't know if there were French welders on the job but i knew English welders who were on it, they advertised for welders in the Sheet Metal & Boiler makers union and newspapers, they had an hut on site where you did a test, pass you got the job fail they gave you expenses for getting there and going home.
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great old film , when men were men & just got on with it , fantastic to hear the old solid diesels growling again , real power .
I live near this pipeline - so close that I run over it frequently as it's marked on every road it crosses. Twelve weeks is an awesome amount of work. Given the extremes of weather in the Fens though that makes sense.
My old man was a welder,who worked on all the new pipe lines from Alaska to Russia and a lot of the middle east countrys in the 60s n 70s.
Always remember him saying about how important it was your weld passed the X Ray.
Good too see what he ment.
I worked for Dow bro of Scone on the St Fergus to Mossmorran pipeline 1980s unloading pipes along the trench. Great experience.
I LOVE WATCHING THIS, HAVE PROBABLY WATCHED AT LEAST 5 TIMES....opps, sorry about the all caps, I am excited to watch again.....Paul in Florida USA
These 16mm films I love,especially when shown complete.Please carry on the good work of uploading more,where copyrights permit.
Many thanks
Cheers for posting, nice little film..
Great to see this film in full at last ! Thanks.
Thanks for posting, nice little film
What cool piece of film very interesting. I wish i had learned to weld when i came out of school big regret of mine. I ended up driving a lorry for thirty years what a waste of time. To anyone coming out of school find something you want to do rather then something you have to do there's a big difference ❤😁
That pipeline cut across a wood we owned at Thorney.
that fella nearly getting crunched by the second tree at 2:09 oh my.
Speaking as somebody that used to divert these pipelines, 12 weeks is about the time to divert a short section these days. Despite modern machinery, computers, GPS surveying etc. it would take years to lay 33 miles of 36" pipeline now.
The men are there to do it buts not that its the planning, the right of way to be agreed upon. Health and safety and of course the environmentalists would make it go at a snails pace
@@inverterville Yes agreed, and we're still injuring people and damaging the environment albeit temporarily. Many youngsters don't want to put in a 12 hour shift of hard graft for 6 days a week though.
@@aib01606 days 🤔 were you part time 😉 you’re right though, we regularly do 14 to 16 hour days especially during summer, the young ones just can’t do it like we used to. They struggle to even turn up on time
@@benm9465 Nope, just a measure of how long it takes now. You can't get much of a production line going on small scale jobs. Nothing can be done till the site is fenced off, surveyed and stripped. These guys had surveyors that only needed to be a week ahead of the fencing crew, who in turn were a week ahead of the stripping crew and they a week ahead of the stringing crew and so on. So much of their work could be done simultaneously and not so easy when you can see from end to end of the job and you haven't got the space to flood it with recourses. When you're not working on that scale you're a month doing nothing other than setting up your site establishment, stripping and materials management. It's the same story at the other end when you demobilise as reinstatement and scrap removal takes as long.
that's the skill we are lacking today, and all those men would have slept in caravans.
We did not live in caravans,We went out too site on a bus from Wisbech,I was the clamp operater from Kings Lynn too
12 weeks now 12 months +
The Man Hammering the stake into the ground is Melvin David Wiles..
No Hi Viz and Few Hard Hats However did they live to tell the tale.
Men were still men back then.
Probably didn't! This is before the HSAWA and over 1,000 a day died at work
Was that a old barbergreen ditch machine, painted red
Interesting..
Pip Pip Cheerio
Bob’s your Uncle
The cave-ins at 13.2... are a real headache .
Lind
Quite a few of the welders looked foreign. Was this a fact?
Just seen another video of the operation and it appears that they were French.
I don't know if there were French welders on the job but i knew English welders who were on it, they advertised for welders in the Sheet Metal & Boiler makers union and newspapers, they had an hut on site where you did a test, pass you got the job fail they gave you expenses for getting there and going home.