Wreckers!!

[yellowbelly]

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.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Whilst you may be right @yellowbelly I’m reminded of a sign I once saw that read:

“When you’re up to your arse in alligators it’s sometimes hard to remember that the primary objective was to drain the swamp”

 

[Phil P]

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

 

[Davy]

Should they not be buried a bit deeper than fence post depth?

 

[Phil P]

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.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

If he hit it there surely it goes under that house? Usually there’s is a 12m easement in the uk 6m either side of pipe

 

[br jones]

thats a fu-cking hell moment

brown trousers more like

 

[colhonk]

Used to do a fair bit of remediale draining to the supposedly reinstated drains on gas pipe installations, all I will say is NEVER take the word of the gas engineers rows of orange marker sticks or depths quoted.

 

[Tomr10]

What ever it was he's luck to be alive

 

[Forkdriver]

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]

Farmers protesting in the Netherlands today against governments nitrogen proposals.

Tractor on motorway in collision with HGV, three people traveling in the tractor injured as far as I know.

 

[ED.D]

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.

 

[Phil P]

Assume that’s the Nwep line ? And there’s absolutely no pressure on the digger driver, I rely on the guy with the scanner.

That’ll be the one. He did say don’t panic unless you see him running, then turns and walks away acre the field on the phone

 

[bumkin]

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

 

[oil barron]

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.

Hedge grown over it

 

[oil barron]

If he hit it there surely it goes under that house? Usually there’s is a 12m easement in the uk 6m either side of pipe

Sub main line the houses. If it was a main line it would have been a much bigger release.

 

[jellybean]

Should they not be buried a bit deeper than fence post depth?

Yes but what is fence post depth? I know somebody who uses 15 foot crash barriers for strainers for deer fencing, knocked in 8 -9 feet; that should find a gas main.

 

[bumkin]

Hedge grown over it

the markers used on our pipe line were just a white plastic tube tied to the marker post the first thing that goes is the plastic tube up the hedge topper then the concrete marker through the verge mower

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[roscoe erf]

no good hiding behind those bales