ponytug
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Nice photo! Any idea why they picked the route that they did? Also, is the pipe on perpendicular supports in the lower part of the photo, and if so any idea why?
All the best,
Peter
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All the best,
Peter
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buckeyefarmer
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there's 2 field offices there, wind blew one over last week LOL
Daytime version, minus the office. pics get blurry when I zoom in.
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buckeyefarmer
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That was our 2nd route suggestion to them. They proposed the orange line route, which put it a lot closer to our house, and crosses our water line from our water well. This would have avoided the deep hill in purple. I first proposed the blue line along the edge of our property. Their next proposal was a hybrid of this, where they drew the line right thru the middle of our water well (pink line.).... Two water wells are yellow circles and light blue is water line to our house. We settled on the final route, although they did slide it up into the field a little further than what we agreed upon. Purple areas are butt puckering to mow. Dad used to mow them years ago, but we let them grow up. In the 3 years or so that we haven't had cows, it's amazing how much has grown up.
In hindsight, final route was a better route than along the property line. At one time, when they didn't want to agree to some terms, we flat out told them to go around us, and they caved. More than anything, they needed the flat road and the work area at the end of our field in order to work the property next door. If they had went around, they had no easy way to take the pipe across them. The hills don't look steep in the pictures, but they are.
Next picture is to the north of us. Pics taken the same day, but with the angle, you can't even see the line north of us in the first picture.
North of us crosses a very steep valley. Train track ran up this valley until 1932, shown in orange, and there is an old tunnel down there (orange circle). There was a one room school down along the tracks, my Great uncle went there. He would have walked from the property south of us, down over that hill somewhere to get to it. This was my playground growing up, as well as the other side of our farm which is now a park. the purple circle is where my brother flew his drone from to take this pic.
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buckeyefarmer
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forgot to mention, but it looks like they placed the pipe on sand bags, no doubt to be able to weld the joints. It appears they are keeping the sand bags under the pipe. I have not been there in a week and a half, and they already have the pipe in, welded, and covering since then. Lots of people working there. Dont' know where they come from, where they stay, but some of them are there about 12 hrs a day. every morning they seem to have a meeting where this camera is aimed, and usually a dozen or more trucks, plus side by sides they use. In addition the water line people have been coming and going a lot also, here is the water tank down in the valley, that they will fill from the creek, and pump up across our land.
ponytug
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Thanks for the explanations!
Sand bags to facilitate welding makes complete sense.
All the best, Peter
Sand bags to facilitate welding makes complete sense.
All the best, Peter
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Engineer42
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Now you've got me curious. Are they using metal pipe or hdpe for the water? Either way the welding or fusion is normally done above grade, then the completed sections are placed in the trench using side booms.
Edit. I backtracked on your posts to the delivery of pipe pic. It's coated metal pipe. I woulda thunk that was for the gas line. Hmmm, unless there's high oxide or rock content there.
Edit. I backtracked on your posts to the delivery of pipe pic. It's coated metal pipe. I woulda thunk that was for the gas line. Hmmm, unless there's high oxide or rock content there.
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buckeyefarmer
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two different pipelines to two different pads by two different companies. oil/gas pipeline is metal and permanent.
separate water pipeline is 1 yr above ground easement, is some HDPE, some softsided pipe that came on reels.
The HDPE they fused behind our barn, then used a dozer to pull it to the back of our farm. It's used to go down the steep hill to the creek. At our farm, they transition to other pipe.
This is at our back property line where they will transition. They chained the HDPE to some trees to keep it from sliding down the hill in places.
This is down below our pond.
when they brought the HDPE pipe in, they had to pull the back of the trailer sideways in order to back it in, and they still managed to take down the electric warning poles.
The fusing equipment was on a tracked vehicle, but I didn't get a picture. I was there the day they loaded it in a trailer to take it away. I have a set to fuse small HDPE pipe, up to 2" I think. This a little beyond my ability. lol
When they pulled the long snake back thru our field, they wiped out about some fencing with it. Will wait and see if they fix it. The guy that we let hunt on us has a game camera there, I need to ask if he has a good pic of them pulling it back.
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They just took that dozer away today, used it to pull the back end of the truck around.
Engineer42
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Thanks for the update. Makes more sense now.
Ya think they'd have jumped up the height of the wires rather than keep paying to put them back up. But, that's all incidental I guess.
