Well, fresh off my Midwest Misery Tour jumped right back into my other exciting job of welding on hot taps, service connections and other fun stuff. Seems I need to have that little bit of danger in my life!!

First pictures are from a new asphalt plant going in near me. I ran 400 feet of 4" last fall across the yard to the location where they wanted to set the regulator. Then out by the road we had to cut the 6" feed line off the mainline at the road to make some adjustments. These pictures are of the new plant being built and where we had to put the riser up with the ball valve. I think they will have be back out there once they get the equipment set and know where they need to the ell and flange situated.

The next picture is the hot tap we participated in about a week and a half ago. They had no way to shut this station down and the valves were sticking pretty bad, very hard to turn off so they called me out to weld on the hot tap fittings. When the guy came out to tap the lines he killed the feed and I welded in the ball valves. I've been building a new station for them but waiting on this large outfit to put the valve sets together. Once they get them done I'll finish off the station then we'll go out and cut the gas and remove the old station and weld in and assemble the new one.

Last pictures, one of my town gas utility departments said, "you want to build this station?" Of course I do!! I like doing these, not overly complicated but building them off jacks and not in a shop on a jig table is interesting and fun. When you get them all put together and they look darn good and you know it's out on the road for all to see your work. Got the bypass in before leaving out today. Tomorrow going out to weld what we tacked up today and install a dozen or so weld-o-lets. Then we'll head out to the site and set the station, test it and get the hot tapper out to do his thing.

Got to love it!