Posted by Crazy Horse on February 01, 2022 at 15:35:23 from (204.191.200.176):
In Reply to: Hard Labor On The Farm posted by aFORDable on February 01, 2022 at 12:35:34:
This isn't farm related but I'm gonna barge in here anyways. Any of you who worked on or saw big-inch pipeline construction before the factory pipe coatings came into play will remember the on-site hot tar paper-wrapped process (using wrapping machines) they used to wrap the pipe with before putting it into the ground. The pipeline tar kettles (big versions of a roofer's tar kettle) were huge, as big as a small military tank and would hold and keep melted several 45-gallon drums of tar. It would solidify when cooled and could be reheated again and made liquid. BUT if you cooked it too hot, it turned to cinder (un-meltable) and there was only one way to deal with it. Crawl in and chop it out by hand once it cooled using an axe, crow bar, hammer and chisel, pick your poison. After a day inside in the hot sun (well the lid on the top was open anyways), you were thinking about going back to school come fall time. This was in the mid-60's for me.
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