Wreckers!!

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
So, if that was a gas pipe, where were the marker posts?? Every field boundry that they cross round here has a concrete marker post.

He was on the boundry, there should have been a marker.
Will depend what angle it’s running across the field as to where the markers are so they may not have been next to where he’s knocking the post in.
We have a high pressure ethelyn pipe that runs across a few of our fields. Had to do some draining next to it a bit ago so got a guy from the gas company out while we where digging.
He said you won’t need to worry if you hit it as it ignites under its own pressure and will vaporise anything within 100 yard, anyone within 400 yards will get 3rd degree burns 😱. Nothing like a bit of pressure on the digger driver 😂
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Should they not be buried a bit deeper than fence post depth?
Most of our pipelines (we have 4 gas and 3 water) are 1.8m deep but we do have a natural gas pipeline that’s under a meter in some parts of our field. The same pipe runs across too neighbours and they’ve had some land taken/bought off them as the pipe had come to the surface and was been hit by the plough 😱. They now have a diagonal fence across the middle of the field 🤦🏻‍♂️.
Ours is the spring barley at the bottom of the picture then you can see the fences.
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Forkdriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
Many years ago I was working for Cambridge Smallholdings. We used to deal with land drainage for the tenants and we were putting some new drains in near Chatters when the drainage machines chain climbed over a steel gas pipeline. The plans showed it somewhere else. Luckily no damage, but squeaky bottom times all round.
 

Turnip

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Farmers protesting in the Netherlands today against governments nitrogen proposals.
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Tractor on motorway in collision with HGV, three people traveling in the tractor injured as far as I know.
 

ED.D

Member
Location
Cheshire
Will depend what angle it’s running across the field as to where the markers are so they may not have been next to where he’s knocking the post in.
We have a high pressure ethelyn pipe that runs across a few of our fields. Had to do some draining next to it a bit ago so got a guy from the gas company out while we where digging.
He said you won’t need to worry if you hit it as it ignites under its own pressure and will vaporise anything within 100 yard, anyone within 400 yards will get 3rd degree burns 😱. Nothing like a bit of pressure on the digger driver 😂
Assume that’s the Nwep line ? And there’s absolutely no pressure on the digger driver, I rely on the guy with the scanner. 🤣
 

bumkin

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
pembrokeshire
Something fishy when the 3rd hit bounced. Good job he didn't have a fag on.
we rented a field out for spuds one year after we had a notification that the pipeline would have to be dug up for a repair apparently they sub-soiled the field and caught the pipeline i think that was a close-run thing
 

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