- Location
- Mendips Somerset
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When a days fencing was nearly his last !
- Thread starter andybk
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Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I'm sure the risk assessment was all in order
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
just imagine if there was a spark , !
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
It wouldn’t ignite !!!
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Recently was on a site,
Digger driver hit an unmarked gas incomer 3 inch valve,
Lots of smell and annoyed neighbours,
But no explosion,
Digger driver hit an unmarked gas incomer 3 inch valve,
Lots of smell and annoyed neighbours,
But no explosion,
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Ffs
Spike bounced the firdt time, pierced it next hit
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Well up here I was fencing across a gas main and apparently it's only 3ft down
TripleSix
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- Location
- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
There was some guys killed in the US when they hit a pipeline with a drainer, got another tractor to pull it from what it was stuck on and the whole lot went up.
Wilksy
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- Location
- East Riding
Yeah I spotted that, you would have thought he would have, it was going in a good 18” on the first two hits
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Have you guys never hit a stone?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
And knocking them in at the moment is bloody hard work, they’re always stopping, easy for someone to criticise from watching afterwards.
The problem is, marker posts aren’t maintained, if they are there at all. Linesearch is good, but will throw up all sorts of services, then cadent can take months to come out to survey it.
- Location
- NE Derbyshire
Only a few fields from me that. Doesn't bare thinking about experiencing something that...
From the fencing picture thread a few years ago
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
It’s shallower than that here, had the gas board out to find the pipe when draining some years ago and it was about 2’ 6”, the pipe went in literally straight across the top of the gas line.
Less than a mile away next to the village is a field with an uncultivated, uncropped strip about 30’ wide diagonally across it because the gas line is that shallow it could get caught.
Bloody sloppy practice on the part of the gas board/the contractors who lay the gas line in my opinion,
It should have been put in deeper, no real excuse for a man on a digger in ground with plenty of depth.
Then there’s the fact that marker posts are very few and far between, ought to be in every field boundary in my opinion., not sure how they get away with it in today’s safety conscious, every hazard needs to be highlighted world.
If they don’t want incidents like this to happen they need to meet us half way by ensuring their gas lines are in deep enough that they can’t be caught by normal farming practices, I would regard fencing as a normal farming practice and ensure the line of the pipe was accurately marked at every reasonable opportunity, which I would say was every field boundary.