|
Читайте также: |
Dictionary of Pipeliner's Terms (SLANGS)
Back End
Those crews behind the welding crew
Backfill
The dirt / sand material used to cover the pipe in the ditch
Bead
The root pass of the weld
Beaver tail
The extreme rear sloped, fabricated steel portion of a lowbed trailer used to facilitate a tractor mounting the trailer from the rear
Bell hole
A widened and sloped section of the ditch where welders will work when doing a tie in
Bender
Machine for bending pipe
Berm
A dyke of earth material formed to contain fluid, such as fuel, in case of a spill or leak, or to diver water on a slope in the prevention of erosion.
Blacktop
Tar sealed road
Bladder
Sack like container for storing water, diesel or other liquids
Blasting mats
Large mats fabricated of tires secured tightly together with bolts and chains. Used to prevent projectiles of rock (fly-rock) from becoming airborne out of the blasting site.
Bone Yard
Lay down area for equipment adjacent to the pipeline area, usually either at kick Off or the end of the line.
Boxing a sag
Squaring off the R.O.W. at a creek / river crossing
Breakers
On hillsides and inclined slopes, the placement of sand bags or spraying of foam to surround the pipe, as a dam, to the top of the ditch, to prevent water flow and subsequent erosion around the pipe. Water breakers are berms built at an angle across the ROW to divert ground water and prevent ROW erosion.
Buckles
A deformity in the pipe resulting in an inward protruding bend, often caused by ditch rock, bending mistakes
Buddy system
An arrangement by which two workers work together to ensure the health and safety of each other.
Buffing
Grinding the pipe with a wire brush
Bug
The automatic welding machine that welds inside or outside the pipe on a track
Cap
The top pass of the weld
Carry back
On setup and pipe gang, the distance the pipe section is brought back to a "start stake" to ensure that after the pipe section is lowered in, it will overlap the following section, necessitating the removal of a "pup". The start stake is placed by the engineering crew to ensure a sufficient overlap.
Chainage
The accumulated length of the pipeline from Kickoff marked in kilometers and meters
Cheater
A length of pipe used to lengthen the handle of another tool for the purpose of increasing leverage and power
Cherry Picker
Truck mounted crane
Choker
A wire rope or synthetic sling used to encircle the pipe by passing one end through a loop in the other end thereby providing an attachment which can pull laterally as well as vertically
Choking pipe
Wood skids, wedges or rock material used to stop pipe from rolling on a flat surface
Clam
Excavating equipment
Cold-wrapping
Applying tape type coatings that do not require the application of heat
Combination
A bend incorporating a sidebend and a sag or overbend
Coming-in-side
The upstream side of a section or tie in.
Coupons
Sections of cut pipe, used for practicing welding
Crumbing the ditch
Ahead of Lower-in removing material from the ditch that might damage the coating or cause a buckle in the pipe.
Danger Zone
A location within 6 meters of a piece of heavy equipment
Daylighting
Exposing a utility that was previously buried
Deadman tractor
A tractor used as an anchor for a pipe section (such as on lowering-in) or when winching equipment on steep slopes
Ditch line
Centerline of ditch, marked by red stakes, stones or markers along the right of way
Ditch side
The side of the right of way on the opposite side of the ditch line from the work side, where the spoil pile is placed
Dog it
Stop heavy equipment operation
Dogleg
An irregularity in a straight line - in a pipe section, lay of the right of way, etc.
Dolly
A trailer converter dolly that is towed from a single hitch located on the centerline of the towing unit.
Donut
Internal brace used in bending operation when end of pipe is near the die. Used to prevent egging of pipe
Downstream
The direction the product will flow when in the pipeline is in service
Drag up
To quit or resign
Dragup Tank
A large tank built into the deck of a welders rig
Drawbar
Structural member of a sled, full trailer, pony trailer or trailer converter dolly that includes a device for the purpose of coupling with a trailer hitch, fifth wheel or hook on a sling
Egging
Pipe becoming out of round, during bending process
Eye balling
Judging by sight rather than using an instrument
Fill line
Small inch light wall pipe 6-10 inches diameter used to carry water from a water source to a fill point, during testing operations
Fill point
A test point used to fill a pipe section with water for testing
Fly-rock
Rock projectiles ejected skyward from a blasting zone
Foreign line
A pipeline that crosses the centerline of the new pipeline under construction
Front End
Those crews ahead of and including the welding crew
Going-out-side
The downstream side of a section or tie in
Goose
Internal hydraulically operated internal clamp used by pipe gang welding crew
Goose
Internal clamp on front end welding crew
Grousers
Horizontal lugs on tracks of tracked equipment
Hand
Pipeline worker
Headache Rack
Strong (reinforced steel) barrier mounted on the back of the cab of a truck to prevent the load sliding forward and breaching the rear cabin wall injuring the driver
High boy
A conventional truck trailer with deck approximately 5 foot off the ground
Hoarding
Plastic over a wood frame used at a test point to maintain temperature of exposed test section
Holiday
Hole or gap in pipeline coating
Hot Dope
Old method of coating pipe with hot melted tar like substance
Hot-wrapping
Applying tape type coatings that require the application of heat
Hot pass
The filler pass of the weld
Hustle skids
The work involved in the loading / unloading of skids, building cradles to support the pipe etc.
Jeep (Holiday detector)
Electrical device used to detect abnormalities / holidays in pipeline coating
Kick Off
Where the work starts on a pipeline project. The work site at the very beginning of a pipeline mainline or looping project.
Lathe
A stake, sharpened on one end, driven into the ground and used to mark centerline of ditch, chainage, or other purpose
Line pipe
The mainline pipeline pipe
Load line hook
The hook that supports the weight
Loop
A parallel section of pipeline
Looping
Work on a section of pipeline that parallels an existing pipeline system.
Loose end
The free, open end of a longer section of pipe
Low Boy / Low Bed
A low slung trailer used to haul heavy equipment
Mormon Board
Backfilling implement
MSDS Sheets
Material Safety Data Sheets - Sheets providing the worker with information of hazardous products so he may protect himself
Mud board
A wooden elevated (4-5 inches) platform for welders to lie on when welding under the pipe
Nightcap
Caps made out of material, plastic, wood etc to fit over and close off the end of the pipe to prevent entry of foreign material
P.I.
Change in the direction of the right of way centerline, usually identified by a stake / lathe with the chainage written on it
Pig
Internal pipeline cleaning or inspection device
Pig Catcher
A device for receiving a pig
Powder man
The worker on a blasting crew whose job is to load explosives in the bore holes
Pulling head
A heavy reinforced end cap for a pipe section with a towing eye, for sustained lateral pulling of that section, used on road bores and river / creek sections
Pup
Short length of pipe
Quad
Welding machines mounted on a tractor
Reach Rod
Long rod with wheel on end which is used to control the mandrel inside the pipe when bending pipe
Reamer
A cutting head that increases the bore hole size
Ripper
A vertical earth / rock cutting blade mounted on the back of a dozer
Roach
A berm (mound of earth) over the pipeline
ROW
Pipeline night-of-way
Rubber boot seal
The seal between the casing and pipe on either ends of a road / river bore
Sag
A bend in the pipe that is concave - high on the ends and low in the middle
Setup
The phase of pipe handling which immediately follows bending. This crew positions the pipe advantageously for the welding crew to ensure minimum required handling by the front-end pipegang crew. It is also laid out as per carry back and other stakes left by the engineering crew
Sho-Fly
Access road to pipeline construction ROW
Shoot a bend
To calculate the degrees of a bend with a transit
Shotrock
Blasted shards of rock
Silk screen
Fine mesh plastic screening used to filter sediment out of flowing water for environmental purposes
Slider
A simple type of skid support for pipe joints/sections
Sneaky
A manned internal pipe repair vehicle A pipeline construction project
Sourman
Equipment used to yoyo a drag bucket at a river crossing
Splitter
A length of safety fuse which notches at 50 millimeter (two inch) intervals and is used to ignite safety fuses
Spoil pile
The excavated ditch material
Spoons
Long handled (12-15 foot) shovels used ahead of lower-in cradles to remove rock from the centerline of the ditch, under the pipe, which could cause buckles, when regulations prohibit workers entering unsafe ditch.
Spotter
A worker designated to identify the appropriate location on the right of way to drop a load, park a vehicle etc. to a driver or operator
Spread
A pipeline construction project
Spread Man
Construction Superintendent
Squeeze iron
Iron from squeeze pump to test head
Stabber
Employee who helps line-up pipe for welding
Stinger
Welding rod and holder
Straw Boss
Crew foreman's lead worker
Swabbing
Using a ring of pipe cut to a slightly smaller diameter than the line pipe with an outer layer of soft rubber which is pulled through a joint of pipe to clean out the inside of the pipe
Tack Rig
Welding tractor
Test head
A short section of pipe with a convex end cap and valves, welded to the end of a section. Used in the filling of pipe and controlling pressure during testing operations.
Test point
A location in a pipe section chosen to be used as a work site for testing operations, where the welders have left two loose ends.
To the house
Going home after shift
Tow cat
Tractor used to pull any equipment or vehicles stuck on the right of way.
Train
A combination of vehicles composed of a tractor, a semitrailer and either an A Dolly and a semitrailer or a full trailer attached to the lead semitrailer in a like manner as if an A Dolly were used.
Upstream
The direction from which the product will come from when in service
Utility
Any pipeline, buried or overhead powerline, fiber optic cable, sewer, etc.
Wobble
A strike. Workers collectively refuse to go to work in support of some demand
Work side
The side of the right of way on which the equipment and vehicular traffic move
Yoyo
Using bucket on a drag line to get ditch depth at a river crossing
Дата добавления: 2015-09-10; просмотров: 94 | Поможем написать вашу работу | Нарушение авторских прав |