Detour Ahead!! Fire Hydrant/valve renewal

[@Nicholas-f5]

good to have every employee film to analyze their process

[@janetcohen9190]

Nice work guys. Given fire hydrants are "excersised" / flushed either once or twice per year. Often done by fire brigade as a part local awareness and crew training. Perhaps also done by local waterworks DPW crew to flush pipes. The excersize of fire hydrant's valve, along with lubricating them so together with "excersize" valve etc are much more likely functional when need to access a water supply for exstinguishing fire. Are other valves in water pipe network /grid attended to 1 or 2x/year for upkeep & functionality purposes? If not, Why are other valves in water supply network periodically upkept such as valve box cleaned, inspected, valves excersized? So when needed to shut-off pipe sections are more apt to work properly whether near a hydrant or up-stream? Or is there a "crises-management M.O." in "public" urban region/ county/ city/ town / water distributuon systems? All based on??? PS- 1) On the educational side whether to help general public much better understand the efforts, logistics, work, equipment, materials, etc involved in fixing stuff, refurbishing, etc instead of the msm attitudes pushing of the latter being nuisances & inconveniences. Kudos!🎉🎉🎉 2) Being 100% in favour of Free Speech. 3) For the sake of children watching your videos, their interest to learn and in future do technical / construction work It's suggested to refrain from vulgarities being included in videos. Thank you.

[@alamedajon1453]

Nice to see the safety blade. That kicker you put in would never fly here in California. We have to calc kickers here.

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

Nice job as always guys…the joy of valves that don’t hold lol

[@rodpreston100]

@@smalltownmachineshop6860 we got lots of valves to fix lol

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

@ I think every water system does

[@marcodosela8694]

Awesome job you guys do, reminds me of back in the day I did c-900,c-800s, and hookups

[@rodpreston100]

We are hiring

[@excavatorguy]

Keep em coming… great content!

[@jayjackson4685]

Good job as per usual sir, to you & the gang.

[@rodpreston100]

@@jayjackson4685 thank you 🍻🍻

[@mattlake2]

Nice work 👍

[@rodpreston100]

Thank you 🍻🍻

[@lucacrispino3023]

Bravi colleghi ottimo intervento di sostituzione idrante

[@rodpreston100]

Thank you !!! 🍻🍻🍻

[@rodpreston100]

Sorry about the audio!!! It was raining ☔️

[@user-ln7of9gs4s]

You’re fine. Real life content.

[@rodpreston100]

@ I got a wind sock now for the go pro actually works.😁🍻🍻

[@TeeEss-l6f]

I noticed that they don’t seem to use thrust blocks.We always do but not everywhere does

[@rodpreston100]

Yup there is a concrete block behind the bowl of the hydrant 😁🍻

[@ronchidwick3643]

They are using retaining gland rings which eliminate the need of thrust blocks but that only works on the new stuff the next joint down the line is probably a regular tyton joint so they are taking a chance with out the thrust block

[@67bajabuilder]

That red handled wrench you and your guys are using to fasten the valve hardware, and what look like combo sockets 7/8 and 15/16 ? What brand is that ? I would like to have one on my service truck...

[@rodpreston100]

@@67bajabuilder Reed through bolt 2 in one swivel ratchet , and Reed extended impact sockets

[@67bajabuilder]

@@rodpreston100 Excellent ! Thank you.

[@ИринаШатровская-б5ъ]

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[@TheLivethedream36]

What's the purpose of the 3 nuts you tighten and the heads break off ?

[@hustlehumbly6169]

when they break you know you tightened them enough, plus they cant be easily undone.

[@rodpreston100]

@@TheLivethedream36 pushes wedges into the pipe to keep the pipe from sliding

[@Pipeline_life]

👍

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo.......is that a thrust block.......for hammer nock........little weak......cheers

[@rodpreston100]

@@mattharvey8712 star grips and concrete works really good

[@anthonygasparini1734]

35 years doing this work! Where is your thrust block?

[@rodpreston100]

@@anthonygasparini1734 the pice of concrete behind the hydrant?

[@ronchidwick3643]

Retaining gland rings

[@rodpreston100]

@@ronchidwick3643 things of beauty eh? How far things have come in 35 years 🍻🍻

[@ronchidwick3643]

@@rodpreston100 Lol absolutely i have been in the fire protection trade since I was 18 i don't miss ductile pipe retaining gland rings and tyton joint tie backs completely changed the industry.

[@jd3497]

Always replace, not rebuild the valve?

[@richardroode8586]

Most of the valves are 1950s or older, where the valve body's them self are almost rusted through, we've encountered it a fair bit

[@rodpreston100]

🍻🍻

[@hotbytesB]

Where is yesterday’s video app?

[@jeffsimons8893]

Where are you guys located

[@rodpreston100]

Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦

[@hotbytesB]

You need to have a KZbin banner background please make one today, please

[@hustlehumbly6169]

just had an absolute shit day myself

[@rodpreston100]

@@hustlehumbly6169 hate those days 🍻🍻

[@TeeEss-l6f]

I noticed that they don’t seem to use thrust blocks.We always do but not everywhere does

[@rodpreston100]

@@TeeEss-l6f it’s in the thumb nail 🍻🍻

[@ИринаШатровская-б5ъ]

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