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the tractor vet · Feb 10, 2011

One of Tenneco's big lines just blew about 45 min. ago just to the south of me and real close to a good friend as he is about a mile from it . The flames could be seen clean over in Pa. and we are in Ohio .

gmccool · Feb 10, 2011

Was it a gas line or a natural gas line. How big of a line is it. Where was it in Ohio. Gerald

the tractor vet · Feb 11, 2011

Nat. gas as to the size i am not sure But it was a big high pressure one . Back in 1970 i mowed them four lines , not the section that blew tonight but south of there . The lines are not all the same size but i think that they are over thirty inches . And vary high pressure . Not sure witch one it was 1, 2, 3 ,4 ??? Don't know . All four lines run thru there .

Gene Dotson · Feb 11, 2011

Hanoverton, Ohio. East of Akron in Columbiana county.

Gene

davediehl@hotmail.com · Feb 11, 2011

News just said 32 inch line.

Buckeye · Feb 11, 2011

I'm sure that same line runs through my farm in Southern Ohio.

the tractor vet · Feb 11, 2011

Well actually It was in, That is eas DUNGANON , that is still east of Hanoverton and that is really East of CANTON and Canton is SOUTH of AKRON Hanoverton sets wright on OLD U S 30 and also sets on the banks of one of the old canals As for a History lesson Dungannon had one of the first Catholic chruch ands sat between the two tunnels on the canal .'s in it as it was a canal town . Now just a pin head on some maps off the beaten path .

Sidekick · Feb 11, 2011

Had one blow here in MO about 13 years ago a half mile from the house. I stood out in the driveway and felt the heat from it. 300 ft. flames. It was a pretty impressive sight.

NY 986 · Feb 11, 2011

We have one that runs through our property. The valve set is at the top of one of the drumlins.

Leroy · Feb 11, 2011

I thought you were on the east coast.

PJH · Feb 11, 2011

Please tell me - what is a drumlin?

It's the second time I've seen that word this week. Never saw it before.

Thanks,
Paul

bruster · Feb 11, 2011

It's just a term used for a whale shaped pile of debris left over when the last glaciers receded, and are almost always orientated pointing north to south!
That's the Geography lesson for today!

NY 986 · Feb 11, 2011

In layman's terms it is an elongated hill that runs north-south with the grade varying from 3 to 10 percent typically and sometimes upwards of 50 percent.
They were created by the advance of glaciers from the last ice age. In more extreme situations here the glaciers dug and mounded enough to form the Finger Lakes with the melt water. Right where I am some of the more favorable soil types for farming have occurred on the drumlins but is not always necessarily true for every drumlin. The drumlins where I am at are known for artesian springs.
This describes them to some degree here in Western NY but there are other examples here in the US and they probably have some different features.

massey 333 · Feb 11, 2011

If Hanoverton is on old US30,where is the new US30 located at in that area??

the tractor vet · Feb 11, 2011

Well they are still tryen to figure that one out . New 30 should have been done by last year . But they just ain't got to it just yet . There are three possible routes .

massey 333 · Feb 11, 2011

I was kidding with you on that,because they have been saying that for the last 20 yrs.or so and maybe our grandchildren will see it.I know it wasn't there 3 weeks ago when I came thru there.E.Canton to E.Liverpool is NOT truck friendly at all.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Feb 11, 2011

Do they always ignite when they blow? If not I'd think the escaping gas could be an extreme danger from the threat of something setting it off and the resulting explosion.

PJH · Feb 11, 2011

Thanks for the geology lesson fellas - that was a term I had never heard until a couple days ago.

Paul

Sidekick · Feb 11, 2011

(quoted from post at 16:55:41 02/11/11) Do they always ignite when they blow? If not I'd think the escaping gas could be an extreme danger from the threat of something setting it off and the resulting explosion.

When the one by my house blew they think it ignited when the power lines bounced against each other. It roared like a jet engine on full power and lit up the sky for miles. I've never seen anything like it.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Feb 12, 2011

I went to a fire school one time on dealing with fires around propane tanks. The demonstration placed burners around and under a propane tank, then the fuel in the tank was turned on and the burners ignited.

Once the tank received quite a bit of heat the pop valve opened and fuel spewed from it. Since it was going up in the air away from the tank it didn't ignite and had to be lit for safety's sake.

It really roared and lit up the evening sky. The demo definitely stopped traffic on the nearby street.

Outfitted firemen then used water as a shield to drive back the flames and heat and then one man reaches in to turn off the tank valve feeding the burners. As soon as the tank cooled enough and pressure reduced within the pop off valve closed and that fire ceased.

We learned that a heated tank is safe unless the fuel through the pop off gets to be real high pitched and screaming which means it can't get rid of over pressure fast enough and it is time to get the heck out of Dodge.

I learned a lot from that demo.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 12, 2011

Many of the drumlins in Wisconsin run east/west from the advancement of the "Green Bay Lobe". But you are correct about the ones in the Finger Lakes region. All one has to do is look at a map to verify that.

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