Detour Ahead!! Another hydrant/valve replacement?!?

[@ARoadBuilder]

Good job guys!

[@rodpreston100]

@@ARoadBuilder 🍻🍻🍻

[@mattlake2]

I’m jealous of the valve risers that you use. We either use 6 inch pipe or the metal ones that screw up and down.

[@rodpreston100]

Yup, can’t take the credit for that , thanks to the supervisor and Forman for ordering things to make our life a little easier in the ditch 🍻🍻🍻

[@treystewart544]

@@rodpreston100I hope that water on the ground is not flooded too much so that’s good so awesome 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@big_ole_pinch6221]

I agree We use the metal ones that are three pieces and screw up and down and they suck heavy and never straight.

[@mattlake2]

@ you described them perfectly

[@ARoadBuilder]

Congrats on 3k!

[@rodpreston100]

@@ARoadBuilder thank you!! You’re moving up fast as well !! 🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@ARoadBuilder]

@rodpreston100 I know it! Going better than I expected.

[@jayjackson4685]

One nice cohesive unit

[@rodpreston100]

@@jayjackson4685 some days lol thanks !!! 🍻🍻

[@TomPhilbin-e7j]

I seen in one of your other vid winter time can be quite how do u deal with the quite time around the shop and do u enjoy it? GOOD VID MAN NICE WORK

[@johnday6434]

don't see that to often right hand open valves ( red operating nut ) that's what we use in Richmond , VA.

[@familymann3950]

Years ago Montreal Quebec we had our own foundry that made all the city valves. They were all right open. As time went by and valves were replaced with new model ones you never knew what you were going to run into while manipulating valves. It was all by feel to know which was which

[@rodpreston100]

@familymann3950 yup we try and leave them about a quarter turn from being all the way open, then the next person who goes on it knows that if they turn it and it stops to go the other way , sucks when they are half way open and then it’s a guess till ya open a hydrant and it stops flowing lol🍻😁🤣

[@williamfenner9915]

Now you have to deal with the valve problem. Or do you have a nut welded to a valve key to make it work.

[@rodpreston100]

@@williamfenner9915 we have a tool that will put a new nut on the valve from street level , I’ll see if I can get some footage of it soon

[@williamfenner9915]

@rodpreston100 That would be awesome to see.

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

Well done guys, is that a 6 foot bury, looks deep

[@rodpreston100]

Yup give or take 😁🍻

[@lucacrispino3023]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@DEXTER32506]

What brand are those deeep sockets or are they custom made?

[@rodpreston100]

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[@RawiDino]

Where do yall order those valve stacks? Those would make things way easier. Thanks!

[@rodpreston100]

@@RawiDino images.app.goo.gl/ekr47Z1jHty3k8nt6

[@rodpreston100]

Not sure where my bosses get them, but this is what we use

[@iPlayObjectivesSon]

How do you guys like your valve exerciser? I've been looking into getting one for our municipality.

[@rodpreston100]

We don’t use it enuff!! And we should!! Great investment

[@rodpreston100]

@@iPlayObjectivesSon great for valve maintenance programs, start on one side of town, and work your way up /down , and excersize valves that never get touched, keep them working for when there is a problem, we got so many old valves that I don’t wann come in for main breaks, because half the time we gotta chase valves for multiple blocks just to shut water off for a 1000 foot section

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

We have the same one but mounted on a skiff on a truck, there is hardly a day it sits in the shop, when it’s not cleaning out cans and meter boxes with the vac it’s working valves. We have a lot of 18 and 24 inch lines with gearbox butterfly valves so saves a lot of getting dizzy walking a street key around

[@dansparling3094]

I’m not seeing a tracer wire, May now be unlocatable.

[@rodpreston100]

Lmao!!!! Ummmmmmm a big red fire hydrant and a valve might give it away 😝🍻

[@kylegallardy1894]

Did you guys use air tools before all the cordless stuff?

[@rodpreston100]

@@kylegallardy1894 not sure what they used to use , cut off saw and hand wrenching when I started, these newer Milwaukee stuff is better nowadays for getting wet , I remember older cordless would instantly die when wet lol

[@karsoncampbelllogginginc]

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