Question about steel pipe for fencing

I've said for many years now that some day it's going to be brought out that all that nasty stuff in and around the used drill pipe will be the source of health issues in families with lots of it in their fencing. Back in the day I worked lead as a cable splicer for the company. We didn't know back then but the stuff I was handling was bad for me. What's even worse is the lead is really really bad for kids.

When they told us that we weren't allowed to mess with it without self protection we thought they thought they were treating us like wussies. We were wrong. We were real men doing something really dangerous for our families and thought it was about manliness.

The same thing with silica dust. We used it to dry out manholes and splices. I've been in a fog of dust many times trying to get a manhole dry enough for us to safely open up a splice. Years later they came up with bags of large granules to do the same job because the dust is bad for our lungs. I get xrays every year of my lungs because silicosis is like abestosis in that it comes in thirty to forty years later and ruins a perfectly good life.

Go with the galvanized pipe or find a source for new reject drill stem that's never been used.

In the late eighties and early nineties good drill stem was being sold for scrap because the oil industry was upside down. As the industry has recovered even the marginal pipe is being used now. So the stuff that's been available for some years now to the public is too bad to hold pressure and so it's being sold off to people who believe they're getting the same stuff they got back when the good stuff was available.

I've said for many years now that some day it's going to be brought out that all that nasty stuff in and around the used drill pipe will be the source of health issues in families with lots of it in their fencing. Back in the day I worked lead as a cable splicer for the company. We didn't know back then but the stuff I was handling was bad for me. What's even worse is the lead is really really bad for kids.When they told us that we weren't allowed to mess with it without self protection we thought they thought they were treating us like wussies. We were wrong. We were real men doing something really dangerous for our families and thought it was about manliness.The same thing with silica dust. We used it to dry out manholes and splices. I've been in a fog of dust many times trying to get a manhole dry enough for us to safely open up a splice. Years later they came up with bags of large granules to do the same job because the dust is bad for our lungs. I get xrays every year of my lungs because silicosis is like abestosis in that it comes in thirty to forty years later and ruins a perfectly good life.Go with the galvanized pipe or find a source for new reject drill stem that's never been used.In the late eighties and early nineties good drill stem was being sold for scrap because the oil industry was upside down. As the industry has recovered even the marginal pipe is being used now. So the stuff that's been available for some years now to the public is too bad to hold pressure and so it's being sold off to people who believe they're getting the same stuff they got back when the good stuff was available.

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