Detour Ahead!! No sleep water breaks !!

[@jhogan1960]

Being on call or working overnight at the water plant and we get a main break. Contacting the poor on call underground guy, tracking where the leak was and stepping up water production to fill the rapidly draining elevated tank . You guys are the true heros on all this. Winter has to be the worst. Nice job with those Hymaxx couplings.

[@rodpreston100]

@@jhogan1960 making the water safe to drink is no easy feat , lots of math and formulas to learn !! It’s way over my head , lol just give me a wrench and a some parts lol

[@666mrgene]

Been nice watching your vids. I spent 22 yrs doing the same..... 1976 - 1998. I feel for ya. You and your crew do a good job, with enough personnel and proper equipment. Keep it up, and when you retire , then it's easier watching vids !! New Hampshire man.

[@rodpreston100]

@@666mrgene 🍻🍻🍻🍻I’m still learning, I just like cutting pipe and twisting wrenches , good stress relief 👍🏼😁🍻

[@mattlake2]

Putting in that OT. Great job 🫵

[@FatGuyInaTruck]

We once had an electrical short in a pump control unit that turned 4 pumps on simultaneously on the 42" gravity main from the water plant.... Line pressure jumped from 33psi to 60+psi over the 6 miles of main before it got into town. We had almost 150 breaks that day, took us 2 days of continuous work to catch them all.

[@rodpreston100]

@@FatGuyInaTruck wow !!!!

[@suzylarry1]

yet another break !? someone's got stop doing that so close to bed time ! Again great job , encouragement given those doing work !

[@rodpreston100]

@@suzylarry1 main breaks around here are very common , especially in the older sections of town , got lucky the last few years with a handful, but we are do for some doozy’s here I’m sure

[@tylerhill5384]

Great job fellas!

[@rodpreston100]

🍻🍻🍻

[@claytonpfannenstiel6583]

Hymax’s are a god send

[@frugive-3824]

In Canada for your water distribution do you have educational grades such as Grade 1,2,3,4 and so on? Just curious if it’s similar to how it is in California.

[@xxnexisxx1]

im west coast canada and we have water distribution levels, water 1, water 2 like that

[@repairdrive]

Watched about 5-6 of your videos randomly so far. Have not seen one where there were ANY other utilities in the hole. Do yall not use gas up there??

[@rodpreston100]

@@repairdrive nope

[@repairdrive]

@rodpreston100 Woah. Nice!

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

Awesome work, is that how deep a lot of your lines are

[@rodpreston100]

@@smalltownmachineshop6860 yup 😁🍻👍🏼

[@ARoadBuilder]

That love note at 9:50 🤣

[@rodpreston100]

@@ARoadBuilder 😂😝🍻

[@williamfenner9915]

This is going to be a real expensive one for someone's insurance company.

[@paulbennett9002]

Late night water breaks are the best nobody around

[@ARoadBuilder]

Just gotta watch out for the idiots that run into hydrants 😅

[@chuckiowa]

Wow Long day back when we was doing digging we got the call 10 pm water main break fix that and then 6 am next day water main break 10 blocks away from 1st one got that fix and thought we was done Nope a 14 inch main breaks and took into day 3 and our ass was dragging We had a 8x8 20 foot long trail with parts for after hours breaks No Iam the man standing on the street over looking the guys work

[@rodpreston100]

@@chuckiowa yup lots of those days here as well,, we are do for a splurge of main breaks 👍🏼😁🍻

[@jayjackson4685]

No rest for the weary

[@user-zh2ge6nk5n]

It's funny how city and county workers can get away without having a trench box

[@rodpreston100]

Trenching and excavation course explains when you need one or don’t ,

[@claytonpfannenstiel6583]

That hole isn’t that deep