The welder and the inspector were both responsible for the girth weld.
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It was a joint effort.
Pipeline Construction Season
Girth welds, right-of-way and mud from spring to fall. For Pipeline. 14 jokes.
After three days of rain, the spread crawled through the right-of-way.
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The mud had the right-of-way.
Why does the pipeline crew treat the radiographer like the weather?
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Everyone depends on her forecast, and nobody likes waiting for it.
What's the longest thing on a pipeline job?
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Not the pipe. The drive between welds.
Pipeline season is three months of mud, three months of dust, and one nice afternoon that the schedule takes credit for.
The pipeline moves a mile a day. The paperwork moves at the speed of the last signature.
You might be a pipeline inspector if...
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...you judge a good day by how many welds you saw and how few times you got stuck.
The crew finished the girth weld in record time. The inspector arrived to find three hundred feet of pipe behind it and a crew holding coffee. 'We were fast,' the supervisor said. 'Great,' she said. 'Now we all wait for it to cool.' The supervisor looked at the weld. The weld looked at the supervisor. Everyone drank their coffee.
Mud up to the knee,
the spread moves a mile today.
Tomorrow: rain, too.
Right-of-Way (n.): The land a pipeline crosses, and what mud has over everything on it.
Weather Day (n.): A day when the welding spread is paid to watch the sky, and the inspector is paid to watch the spread watch the sky.
Ever notice that the girth weld that needs a re-shoot is always at the far end of the spread?
Nobody warns you that the longest part of pipeline construction is the three hours before the first weld, when everyone is waiting on one truck.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Weld.
Weld who?
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Weld, weld, weld. Looks like it's going to rain again.