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Don't feel too bad, had to jump into a trench once with a bunch of other guys and hold up a 6" main feeding a 23 story building, the timbermen from the dockbuilders local were on the site doing all the trench shoring, the bank started to give way before they could finish shoring, was only a 6 foot deep trench, we held it while some others got some supports in place, don't want to think what could have happened or there was not enough hands to hold it, ductile or cast iron would have snapped, was some kind of metal pipe, probably from the 60's. Demo contractor that razed the old buildings when the lumber yard office and hardware store burnt to the ground, pulled up 2 1" old lead laterals from the street, they were just blowing in the breeze for days, young and stupid, I went right over to them and put my hand right over the line, yep it's gas, they never shut it off first. Lot of volume came out of those lines, always wondered what if a passerby had tossed a cigarette in there, would have been on giant bunson burner. Thinking about it now, just one spark from the undercarriage of a crawler or static etc.,, I know the contractor too, looked like he got the machine out of there and did not come back until it was shut off, at least 2 days later, it was going all night til the next day. One thing you don't want to mess with, have seen photos of charred machinery when people were not so lucky.
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