So this is what I do

[Dark DeLaurel]

Ok so the picture won't upload for some reason so here is a link to dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lmzrrwcfzf253o/work.png?dl=0 this is the view outside of the pump cab window.

This is the view from my drivers seat waiting for the client to be ready so we could spot the units.


This is a picture of my unit in the front, the supervisors pickup and the other unit in behind. And yes Glam and Carnage that is a Tri-axle tractor and you can't see it but it is a tri-axle trailer also. The tractor did have a steering chain on but I threw that off when I hit the snow on the last single lane bridge.


Now to explain a little of the top picture. We were pushing two pigs for two pipelines, in an area that is called Burnt Timber the push pin will take you to the old Shell Canada gas plant, I was further West.... http://binged.it/14OzIYL

What we were trying to accomplish was push out the liquids in the pipelines (as they both were natural gas lines) to one of their other (their being the client Centrica) facilities. This way production of the gas is higher and also doesn't foul up their process with liquids from the wells feeding it.

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

Ok so since Bing has good satellite view here is the exact location that I was working http://binged.it/1IFQHbU the small part on the left, the big group of buildings on the right is the Junction B Compressor Station that is now owned by Direct Energy Canada as Shell Canada has sold off all their assets in the area.

 

[CarnageINC]

Nice...nice and cold

 

[Daneiel]

Far too much snow for a southern child like me , any way very nice pics , very beautiful nature .

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

Nice...nice and cold

lol it was actually -8C that day so I was happy!

Far too much snow for a southern child like me , any way very nice pics , very beautiful nature .

bah! that is actually not a lot of snow for that area, there have been times where the snow plow was making ridges a few feet high...Yes it is a very nice area, just too bad I couldn't get pictures of the mountains that are so close to their.

 

[Daneiel]

lol it was actually -8C that day so I was happy!



bah! that is actually not a lot of snow for that area, there have been times where the snow plow was making ridges a few feet high...Yes it is a very nice area, just too bad I couldn't get pictures of the mountains that are so close to their.

Brrrr only reading your comoent -8C and i want to go back to bed and trow another blanked over me . I am already missing the summer with its 30C .

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

Here is a picture of the pigs after being run through a pipeline a few times. The one with brushes is oddly enough called a brush pig and the other ones are called a foam pig, these are 14" in size.

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 20, 2015

 

[Daneiel]

When i read your post from my phone before seeing the photo i was ready with comment about guns , hunting and my humble person in that matter , but sadly its not valid anymore , But its interesting to see these things 14" - that is 35 cm roughly , hmm i expected them to be at least 45 or 60 cm.

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

When i read your post from my phone before seeing the photo i was ready with comment about guns , hunting and my humble person in that matter , but sadly its not valid anymore , But its interesting to see these things 14" - that is 35 cm roughly , hmm i expected them to be at least 45 or 60 cm.

biggest i have seen is 42" needed a picker truck to load it in as they are heavy as f**k. it is quite interesting, tomorrow i will have pictures of a few pigs broken/stuck in line.

 

[CarnageINC]

If you were to send these up BK's colon, It would take a truck load of 42" pigs to satisfy him.

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

Ok now that I spent a good portion of today at a fabrication shop waiting for the pipe to get cut we found the problem with the stuck ones.

This is the section that was cut out where we deemed the stuck pigs were. This is a 6" line and that is a 90 degree corner, not normally seen when pigging due to the stress they put on the pig when going through them.

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

Here are the foam pigs (low density) that were sent through the line before I got there to dislodge the stuck ones. As you can tell this didn't work out well as the first two were still stuck and well this is how the two foams look...

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

Now with the cut pipe in the fab shop this is what we found in it
The side towards the receiver

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

The side towards the launcher

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

(each ready rod you see is the centre of one pig)

This is what the whole assembly looks like brand new...

2015-01-21 10.16.05

• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

Here are pictures of those various pieces...

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

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• Dark DeLaurel
• Jan 21, 2015

 

[CarnageINC]

You sure do like to work with a lot of pipe Dark, I bet your really good at handling all the pipe too

 

[Badkarma]

Im not supprised Dark got this stuff stuck in his pipe. I guess he forgot the safety word "Armageddon!"

 

[CarnageINC]

Good point BK, one you will never have to worry about since any pipe of yours is large enough to allow a freight train to move through it.

 

[Daneiel]

Maybe my english is bad or i have bad early education or that topic start to become a bit far too strange !!!!

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

Lol Dan, it's partially an English thing and a strange topic

 

[Daneiel]

I know Dark i tried to joke that combination of my English and the BKs comment , but probably it didn't come well in the translation .From time to time you guys need to give me a bit of slack and use your imagination to understand what i am trying to say .

 

[Dark DeLaurel]

I know Dark i tried to joke that combination of my English and the BKs comment , but probably it didn't come well in the translation .From time to time you guys need to give me a bit of slack and use your imagination to understand what i am trying to say .

LOL I think we can do that

 

[Badkarma]

oh believe me, Dark had a lot of slack after he pulled those pigs out.