By stanantonio
Date 02-07-2011 16:11
Nice video... I live near an old pipeliner (he's 80 yrs old and still gettin it) named Lee Jones. He's a very dear friend of mine and when I get home from being on the road I always make it a point to bring a few cold ones over to his house and shoot the breeze. I always like hearing the old timer pipeline stories of his about useing mules to string and join pipe. Or the time this welder showed up on the firing line with 100# sack of potatoes and an old junk rig (which he slept under on the right of way) and by the end of the job everybody pitched in and bought this guy a brand new rig. Or listening to stories of him being a helper at 10 and part of his job was to hand crank off his dads welding machine at the start of everyday. All that being said (which probably didnt need to be posted) I've been on a hunt to find an old time video or film showing mules stringing pipe. Has anyone seen a video of this type?
