still digging the welded steel pipe..first shot is a pic of the 45 degree bends in the ditch..second shot is laying some of it..the 45's are in the distance...2 750 john deere's
Nice work as usual reddot
I see there is evenly spaced mounds in the trenchbottom. What is the purpose of those?
Those are actually trenches, that's where the joints are and the welder can get all the way around the pipe that way.
"this will keep the welder busy" And here I thought reddot tore a bucket up... Nice work as usual man.
They are generally called bell holes around here... But no matter what... they are never right... It too deep...not deep enough Even when they are the same on every hole.. I was on a 42" and 60" the 42 was 4 passes on the outside... when we first started the 2 welders tooks about 2 hours to weld the joint.... near the end they were welding a joint in about 45 minutes... the 60 was inside welding.... that was done by countless welders... Not many wanted to crawl several hundred feet inside a pipe...
Nice work !!!
what sch. pipe? no welding inspector on site? These cycle times seem short. if hes doing a 6010 5p+ root and a 7018 cap and fill for that diameter pipe i would say 5 a day was hauling azz for a single hand.
The 42" was pulled thru a 48" existing pipe.. 2 hour welding we would get about 3 joints a day... 45 minutes..5 to 6 joints Mostly it depended on how much fighting they had to do to get the pipe together... the pipe was a spiral wrap concrete line water line... with slip joint