Today in Pictures

[fjlip]

Love it! Smoke baby smoke!

My son deleted totally his 2015 Duramax, smells like earth killing diesel now, CC must be convulsing, BOILING from the extra GHG!

[Grain Farmer]

Got you beat.

[chuckChuck]

If diesel smoke is good for us, close the shop door or garage and keep the engine running! Yahoo!

You gotta wonder about the intelligence of some immature guys who think turning their street trucks into a smoke belching toxic noisy waste dump on wheels is ok?

Then they leave them idling for hours outside places where kids and people with breathing problems frequent.

They have no care about anybody else but themselves.

[fjlip]

And the Gov and manufacturers CARE?
Phuck no!

Stupid costs, crazy unreliable engines, complicated BS... make work project, all for $$$ they take from all of us!

Phuck the emissions bullshyt!

His truck runs like 1997, clean burn, mileage increase, MORE power, no DPF burn, no DEF regen, therefore less diesel used, earth saving! Oil will be cleaner at changes!

Wake up, do the math climate crazy Mr Nut Zero!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Is this a bad sign? Anyone know what kind of a tree root this is? Yellow and hollow, kind of plasticy?

[shtferbrains]

Gas line?
Very inconvenient.
If your talking about it, your luckier than some I knew.

[farmaholic]

Is(WAS) the line dead or live?
Does Alta have a "First Call" service that locates buried utilities?
What happens to abandoned buried utilities? Are they still flagged if line locations are requested at and near the work site.

[blackpowder]

That is the beginning of a very bad day either way.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I was supposed to hit this gas line. I paid to have it rerouted last summer. Although it's still a shock to the system when it happened.

This is just a gas line from the local gas co-op Once they are disconnected i/, they are off the records. But actual abandoned pipelines still have to be located and the right-of-way respected. I've been arguing about an abandoned line that I want to remove at my own expense. But it still has to follow all the rules, it was going to get really expensive by the time I hire their inspector and welder and crew to watch me do it.

Company I used to work for once struck an abandoned line that the line locators had missed. There was no record of it. It was taken very seriously, the oil company had a zero tolerance for line strikes so even though it was an abandoned line, the line locators had missed it and we had no way of knowing it was there, we couldn't work for them anymore.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Is(WAS) the line dead or live?
Does Alta have a "First Call" service that locates buried utilities?

Yes, we have first call, free for farmers and homeowners. If they had a frequent flyer program, I would definitely qualify.

About a mile away on this same gas line last fall, I put in a first call for subsoiling. Shouldn't be necessary, but better safe than sorry. Turns out it was barely 18" deep. I didn't subsoil over the line.

Lots of horror stories. I used to work with an operator who had a reputation for striking buried utilities. Not gas lines fortunately. He once shut down all of Banff while working on the Trans Canada.