I live near this pipeline - so close that I run over it frequently as it's marked on every road it crosses. Twelve weeks is an awesome amount of work. Given the extremes of weather in the Fens though that makes sense.
What cool piece of film very interesting. I wish i had learned to weld when i came out of school big regret of mine. I ended up driving a lorry for thirty years what a waste of time. To anyone coming out of school find something you want to do rather then something you have to do there's a big difference ❤😁
Speaking as somebody that used to divert these pipelines, 12 weeks is about the time to divert a short section these days. Despite modern machinery, computers, GPS surveying etc. it would take years to lay 33 miles of 36" pipeline now.
The men are there to do it buts not that its the planning, the right of way to be agreed upon. Health and safety and of course the environmentalists would make it go at a snails pace
@@inverterville Yes agreed, and we're still injuring people and damaging the environment albeit temporarily. Many youngsters don't want to put in a 12 hour shift of hard graft for 6 days a week though.
I don't know if there were French welders on the job but i knew English welders who were on it, they advertised for welders in the Sheet Metal & Boiler makers union and newspapers, they had an hut on site where you did a test, pass you got the job fail they gave you expenses for getting there and going home.
