On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:09:39 -0000, Roger Hayter wrote:

Martin Brown wrote:

On 11/03/2019 15:46, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:28:57 -0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote:

hat are those things you see in the middle of nowhere (in the UK at
least), a 10 foot high white pole with an orange roof-shaped lid on top?

Hi-viz poles to allow the chopper to follow the pipeline route easily.

They're not just markers, I'm sure they can actually let off gas.

They are simple makers for the helicopter that checks the pipeline to
follow with its airborne leak checker. One of the high pressure
pipelines runs close to me. They also mark the no dig zone at the
roadside (permission required from the pipeline owner Ineos or Shell).

That seems unfair; after a boring day mashing up roadside culverts and
the occasional fibre duct, a high pressure gas pipeline would be quite
an exciting find for JCB operator.

My local council once dug through a gas pipeline in my street. Unfortunately it didn't catch light and blow one of the dimwits to kingdom come, so there was just a smell of gas, some workmen running about hurriedly making phonecalls, and no gas for the afternoon.

What I like is when snowploughs destroy those stupid ****ing bollards on chicanes, as they can't see them in deep snow. I removed one myself once when I had an old Range Rover. They're plastic and smash up easily.