@@danieltaylor1038 "We definitely get forgotten about. Until someones home is gon a get flooded" dont forget it. its why you should save every bit of money you earn to own your own house outright and pass it on to your kids. you do that and your generations to follow can control how their life goes and can tell the rich to get bent!
@@jamescollier3 OSHA watched me fix a break like this. No shoring needed, spoil pile good, sloped hole, pumps running. this is a totally acceptable repair in the eyes of OSHA. No overhead equipment also means no helmets required.
Crazy thing about live main repairs is when the water hits you in the face it takes your breath away. Hard to describe. Gotta fight through built in panic.
Feel like a super hero though all the pedestrians running away and you're just marching in no matter rain hail or shine, night shift in winter can be a bitch though
Me too. It was 10 below. Had to pour water on my hands to keep tools from freezing to them. Short sleeves because my hoodie froze solid. Circle breaks, splits, saddle blow offs. I can’t say I don’t miss it because I currently work doing this. And for those of you mentioning recognition...it rarely happens for us. Mainly is rude people asking when their water is gonna be back on or calling the city to say we made a mess and need to clean it up again. Linemen get all the props where I live. And even they tell you that they do less than half the work. Water crews are the unsung heros man...100%.
@@jdwylde7 you're right most of the time you get abused but sometimes very rarely you get the good people who give you a thanks and a warm cup of coffee on a freezing cold night
Captain corona virus4dayz absolutely. Earlier today after a rough hot day fixing a break, a resident brought me some water and thanked me for what we did. Some of the nice locally owned restaurants even give us a free meal here and there. But I like what I do. It’s really hard work...but you learn so much after years doing this.
I feel your pain when we cant get a shut down and we gotta repair a break on the fly… especially in the winter, it gets cold up here in new york, hats off that u guys.
WHERE'S OUR TAX MONEY BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS? IT'S NOT BEING REINVESTED IN THE ROADS, BRIDGES, INFRASTRUCTURES, OR THE SCHOOLS (Lottery Funds Never goes to schools.) THE ENERGY GRIDS ANTIQUATED AND POWER LINES ARE POST WWII, YET, RATES INCREASED FOR POOR ENERGY SERVICE. AMERICA IS CRUMBLING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FROM CORPORATE AND POLITICIAN'S GREED & KLEPTOCRACY! WHERE'S THE MONEY BEEN GOING?
Someone posted a video of me fixing a water line like this in 25 degree weather 2 days ago and surprised me by making a huge post about it. Usually people ignore the water resources workers and could care less. Always asking when their water will be back on and we should’ve warned them even better before cutting any mains off. Nice job here guys.
I did this work for many years. This was done exactly right, and safely. In good weather, it's not that hard- different story when it's cold. Many times, it's almost impossible to get the water completely shut off- no problem here, for these guys. Good job.
I was thinking same thing about cold weather. Here in upstate NY, our infrastructure is old. Extreme cold weather causes more breaks than normal. Cold could be 0 F. Sometimes where i live cold might be -20 or -30 windchill at night. Further north or in the mountains, extreme cold might be -50 or -60 below. At least you're dealing with ice then. I'm sure the guys still get wet. When it's like 25 F, and freezing rain... Americans have taken this all for granted for way too long. It's not just our bridges failing. We need to spend a few TRILLION on upgrades and replacements It's why i'm frustrated that tens of millions of people have moved from places that HAVE existing infrastructure to places that didn't, so we added $$ billions more in infrastructure to care for, much of it added unnecessarily. Especially in the southwest. People moved from rust belt to Arizona and that just... it was short sighted
I thought everyone says working for the city is suppose to be easy?!!!!! Lol 😂😂😂 AWESOME WORK BROTHERS! MUCH LOVE CIty Of Merced WATER DEPARTMENT~ GSD~(get shit done)
Great repair and great video! Really shows some of the difficulties City crews have to deal with. Really shows how much these guys love to do their job!
WHERE'S OUR TAX MONEY BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS? IT'S NOT BEING REINVESTED IN THE ROADS, BRIDGES, INFRASTRUCTURES, OR THE SCHOOLS (Lottery Funds Never goes to schools.) THE ENERGY GRIDS ANTIQUATED AND POWER LINES ARE POST WWII, YET, RATES INCREASED FOR POOR ENERGY SERVICE. AMERICA IS CRUMBLING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FROM CORPORATE AND POLITICIAN'S GREED & KLEPTOCRACY! WHERE'S THE MONEY BEEN GOING?
We had some still in town where I worked for 8 years. I don’t think we ever had a break on AC. Very rarely ductile iron. The main issues we had were always cast iron.
Been there. 30 years. When I first started we could not get the water off that well for repairs. So over time we got more broken valves replaced. Got a good grip on water shut downs, yet an old system. I hope this is a rare type repair event with that much water.
Its a tough job you do it well thanks don't work to hard appreciate you guys thanks you guys rock way to go your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated even in the cold weather stay warm and dry out there buy them a coffee or something they deserve alot of credit your service is deeply appreciated thanks !! Joe
Hmm... Large OD asbestos-cement. Pros: nothing sticks to it so it's easy to clean.. also will split around 99.8% of the time so banding is always possible. Cons: replacement.. Because it's AC! 😕
Been there, nothing but suck. General public just gripe about "when is my water going to be on???" Great job and great to see men taking care of society
"Great work guys. Hey, on your way home, I'm gonna need you to go over to Mrs. McGillicuddy's house...you know that super clean house with the white carpet?...yeah...I guess she's got a bunch of little plumbing tasks that she's been putting off for a while. I told her you were wrapping up and would be there in an hour or so...thaaanks."
A city (-25k ppl) I lived in once one of the two main water line (6 feet wide each) right from the water tower broke. It was not first detected by water somewhere outside but that the water level in the tower went down way faster than normal and alarms went of and the main valve closed. But all that took 10 seconds but during that time the town now had a very small lake near the water tower, just insane amount of water poured out.
Been in this same situation a few times.. cold mid November in MN with water past my waste. Would have been right there with ya guys. Good thing you could put a band aid sleeve over it.
Hell yea I just dealt with something like that but we did a size on size hot tap and it went south but luckily me and my boss didn’t deal with a explosion it just cracked from the inside of the sandal coming out and just started spitting a lot of water out from the bottom of the pipe and and flooded the whole job site we had to call the main water people of the county that I’m in so they can shut it off we had 3 hour window to do that
Here from the UK doing the same job , our dig teams would be crying working on that without a shut off , hats off to you lads , as my job involves doing shut offs il move over to you for an easier life aha
@@klobmiester 😂😂 I agree , if only it was as simple as that without the ballache of phone calls , samples and now an app where they can watch you operate the valves.
huh just had two water breaks on the same water mane in morgan partk minnasota and they turned the entire cityus water supply off and just now started digging almost 6 hours after we lost water pressure from the break... wish it was that fast here on febuary 1st we had 7 breaks in one day in that same line of pipes that broke today and resulted in totally city water shut off because on feb first when the main one broke it rerouted to secondary wich then over pressurized and burst in a cascade failure of water pipes kinda like the cascade failure in the 2003 black out as lines got overloaded and burst our water lines did the same not to mentions this break happened during a snow storm that dumped two and a half feet in 12 hours and was still going strong up until an hour from this post 153am 2/22/2022
As a retired 39 yr water utility employee, nice job in adverse conditions....I'd have made the sob's that did such a fine job with the shutdown put the clamp on!!! Well, it can't be said that you didn't maintain positive pressure!!!!!
Leyon Tyree the water distribution workers in the video spent time, not shown in this video, trying to shut valves to relieve pressure on the line and had no luck. So after exhausting all efforts to reduce the pressure the crew then had to improvise to try and stop/repair the leak.
You can shut a feeder line down because there's no way they only have one line that feeds the city if not they are fucked when it's time to shut it off
Great work fellas, we are the unspoken hero’s of today’s utilities, most don’t recognize it but your fellow brothers do! Get it done son!
You union ?
Phenomenal repair
@@danieltaylor1038 "We definitely get forgotten about. Until someones home is gon a get flooded" dont forget it. its why you should save every bit of money you earn to own your own house outright and pass it on to your kids. you do that and your generations to follow can control how their life goes and can tell the rich to get bent!
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@@jamescollier3 OSHA watched me fix a break like this. No shoring needed, spoil pile good, sloped hole, pumps running. this is a totally acceptable repair in the eyes of OSHA. No overhead equipment also means no helmets required.
Crazy thing about live main repairs is when the water hits you in the face it takes your breath away. Hard to describe. Gotta fight through built in panic.
Been there. Done that at 3am while it was 30 degrees. Won’t forget those days
Feel like a super hero though all the pedestrians running away and you're just marching in no matter rain hail or shine, night shift in winter can be a bitch though
It's a hard dirty wet job but feels very rewarding after you've fixed the burst and cleaned up getting some recognition from residents
Me too. It was 10 below. Had to pour water on my hands to keep tools from freezing to them. Short sleeves because my hoodie froze solid. Circle breaks, splits, saddle blow offs. I can’t say I don’t miss it because I currently work doing this. And for those of you mentioning recognition...it rarely happens for us. Mainly is rude people asking when their water is gonna be back on or calling the city to say we made a mess and need to clean it up again. Linemen get all the props where I live. And even they tell you that they do less than half the work. Water crews are the unsung heros man...100%.
@@jdwylde7 you're right most of the time you get abused but sometimes very rarely you get the good people who give you a thanks and a warm cup of coffee on a freezing cold night
Captain corona virus4dayz absolutely. Earlier today after a rough hot day fixing a break, a resident brought me some water and thanked me for what we did. Some of the nice locally owned restaurants even give us a free meal here and there. But I like what I do. It’s really hard work...but you learn so much after years doing this.
I feel your pain when we cant get a shut down and we gotta repair a break on the fly… especially in the winter, it gets cold up here in new york, hats off that u guys.
Mad respect! As a resident who just dealt with 36 inch water main break. I give these soldiers my utmost respect.
WHERE'S OUR TAX MONEY BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS? IT'S NOT BEING REINVESTED IN THE ROADS, BRIDGES, INFRASTRUCTURES, OR THE SCHOOLS (Lottery Funds Never goes to schools.) THE ENERGY GRIDS ANTIQUATED AND POWER LINES ARE POST WWII, YET, RATES INCREASED FOR POOR ENERGY SERVICE. AMERICA IS CRUMBLING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FROM CORPORATE AND POLITICIAN'S GREED & KLEPTOCRACY! WHERE'S THE MONEY BEEN GOING?
Those Smith and Blair clamps are a lifesaver
Someone posted a video of me fixing a water line like this in 25 degree weather 2 days ago and surprised me by making a huge post about it. Usually people ignore the water resources workers and could care less. Always asking when their water will be back on and we should’ve warned them even better before cutting any mains off. Nice job here guys.
And asking why do we have to boil our water and for how long.
You dont@@terrymaine4121
I did this work for many years. This was done exactly right, and safely. In good weather, it's not that hard- different story when it's cold. Many times, it's almost impossible to get the water completely shut off- no problem here, for these guys. Good job.
I was thinking same thing about cold weather. Here in upstate NY, our infrastructure is old. Extreme cold weather causes more breaks than normal. Cold could be 0 F. Sometimes where i live cold might be -20 or -30 windchill at night.
Further north or in the mountains, extreme cold might be -50 or -60 below.
At least you're dealing with ice then. I'm sure the guys still get wet.
When it's like 25 F, and freezing rain...
Americans have taken this all for granted for way too long. It's not just our bridges failing. We need to spend a few TRILLION on upgrades and replacements
It's why i'm frustrated that tens of millions of people have moved from places that HAVE existing infrastructure to places that didn't, so we added $$ billions more in infrastructure to care for, much of it added unnecessarily. Especially in the southwest. People moved from rust belt to Arizona and that just... it was short sighted
Yes , no hard hats, flaggers with no signs and men chest deep fixing a live transmission main is totally safe
I thought everyone says working for the city is suppose to be easy?!!!!! Lol 😂😂😂
AWESOME WORK BROTHERS! MUCH LOVE
CIty Of Merced WATER DEPARTMENT~ GSD~(get shit done)
Did that work for almost 40 yrs. In the ditch, then in the equipment. Great job guys!
Great repair and great video! Really shows some of the difficulties City crews have to deal with. Really shows how much these guys love to do their job!
PFinSA great teamwork
Great repair? Jajajajaja they used a clamp. Not a big deal
@@edwin1escobar you have to use a clamp. but its underwater and a water main has enough pressure to explode the ground above it. its a bitch.
WHERE'S OUR TAX MONEY BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS? IT'S NOT BEING REINVESTED IN THE ROADS, BRIDGES, INFRASTRUCTURES, OR THE SCHOOLS (Lottery Funds Never goes to schools.) THE ENERGY GRIDS ANTIQUATED AND POWER LINES ARE POST WWII, YET, RATES INCREASED FOR POOR ENERGY SERVICE. AMERICA IS CRUMBLING FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FROM CORPORATE AND POLITICIAN'S GREED & KLEPTOCRACY! WHERE'S THE MONEY BEEN GOING?
Great job guys l did the same kind of workl over 38 years just retired 2 years ago keep up the good work from del rio ,texas
I'm about to do this entry level!! I'm so excited and ready!
Awesome. How’s that going?
Dam smooth operation right there. Respect guys
That's what's refered to as AC pipe, which stands for asbestos cement. Thousands of miles still in use
We had some still in town where I worked for 8 years. I don’t think we ever had a break on AC. Very rarely ductile iron. The main issues we had were always cast iron.
Been there. 30 years. When I first started we could not get the water off that well for repairs. So over time we got more broken valves replaced. Got a good grip on water shut downs, yet an old system. I hope this is a rare type repair event with that much water.
like you I am a water distribution supervisor 37 years great job
Its a tough job you do it well thanks don't work to hard appreciate you guys thanks you guys rock way to go your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated even in the cold weather stay warm and dry out there buy them a coffee or something they deserve alot of credit your service is deeply appreciated thanks !! Joe
Just started this type of work enjoying learning the ropes and seeing how people interact with each other
How you liking it?
how did you start bro?
Give that operator some props for not hitting that line! Not easy to do in those conditions.
a smooth operator
Hmm... Large OD asbestos-cement. Pros: nothing sticks to it so it's easy to clean.. also will split around 99.8% of the time so banding is always possible.
Cons: replacement.. Because it's AC! 😕
Nice job, that's some dedicated crew
People, appreciate the work that these guys perform. I hope it was not cold that October day. Sometimes you can't valve it off.
They definitely throttled the valves down here.
Great work my fellow water distribution brothers! -WDO Los Angeles CA
Been there, nothing but suck. General public just gripe about "when is my water going to be on???" Great job and great to see men taking care of society
Buy them a ice tea or something they deserve alot of credit your service is deeply appreciated don't work to hard ! Joe
AWESOME JOB FELLAS, NOW THATS A WRECKING CREW!!!
Massive respect to these men - true soldiers doing a thankless job.
Dang fellows, now that’s what u call team Work! Big shout out from PW NAF El Centro CA!
Well this is the job I signed up for and will be starting soon
"Great work guys. Hey, on your way home, I'm gonna need you to go over to Mrs. McGillicuddy's house...you know that super clean house with the white carpet?...yeah...I guess she's got a bunch of little plumbing tasks that she's been putting off for a while. I told her you were wrapping up and would be there in an hour or so...thaaanks."
Get It done Boyz, had a similar repair in the middle of the winter, sucked, bad.
Good work !! Be safe !!
I love the teamwork; it reminded me of when I was in the army
Gotta love being on a pipe crew we built different 👊🏾🤘🏾
Love a match break! Good job fellas!
That was awesome. Great job you guys.
Team work great to see well done
Good job and kept positive flow.
That's a real plumbing repair, awesome !
Great job getting that clamp on guys, sometimes you just gotta get wet and muddy!
Go on lads. 26 Yr on repair maintenance for me on the water. North of England.. Good job boys
Awesome job
Well done great team work ❤
That crew earned their keep for sure!
Good to see my live king brothers on the other side of the planet band aiding that main, reapect
City council waterworks workers don't get enough recognition for their work
Great job! Team work!
There were more guys in that hole then we have in my water department it’s a struggle 😭😂😂😂
Great job fellas!!
A city (-25k ppl) I lived in once one of the two main water line (6 feet wide each) right from the water tower broke. It was not first detected by water somewhere outside but that the water level in the tower went down way faster than normal and alarms went of and the main valve closed. But all that took 10 seconds but during that time the town now had a very small lake near the water tower, just insane amount of water poured out.
Been in this same situation a few times.. cold mid November in MN with water past my waste. Would have been right there with ya guys. Good thing you could put a band aid sleeve over it.
Been there done that. Good team work!
Hell yeah boys, doin it live is the way to do it
Great job ! Being new to the field im just trying to learn the trade and damm im exited 👆💯🔥💪
i miss doing this for the city of killeen tx
excellent video.
Now THAT'S a band-aid!!!⛑️⛏️❤
Very nicely done. Kind of crew I’d want to be on
they did that🔥🔥🔥
More than 5 feet deep no shoring. 1st Osha violation, not to mention the hard hats...great job
It was in 2018.. Osha didnt really get involved in the safety with the holes caving in untill after a ass of plumber started dying..
Texas doesn't have an OSHA State Plan so their public sector isn't covered
@@HolyMatthew98 oh bullshit. OSHA has been citing open trenches for as long as I’ve been digging the 25 years min.
Municipal workers are OSHA exempt
Not to mention the lack of eye protection and the risk of drowning.
Good job!
' We came , we conquered! ' 👊
Good shit boys!!!!
Cool " I also work in my city Indaiatuba Brasil, with that
Gotta have that PPE on fellas good job repairing the main though
Love this great job all hero
Tighten those bands starting in the middle and work outward
Real men doing great work. If you ever say you don't need a man well think again.
Hell yea I just dealt with something like that but we did a size on size hot tap and it went south but luckily me and my boss didn’t deal with a explosion it just cracked from the inside of the sandal coming out and just started spitting a lot of water out from the bottom of the pipe and and flooded the whole job site we had to call the main water people of the county that I’m in so they can shut it off we had 3 hour window to do that
Tough guys...well done
Phelix needs a raise
Next time turn the valve down 80% so you keep positive pressure and a lot less water loss. Also, it makes it easier and cleaner to work with.
Use to work for reliable contractors in MD ..had days like this before..
Here from the UK doing the same job , our dig teams would be crying working on that without a shut off , hats off to you lads , as my job involves doing shut offs il move over to you for an easier life aha
We cry because you can’t be arsed getting out of the van to turn a valve off because it’s to cold and damp outside for you
@@klobmiester 😂😂 I agree , if only it was as simple as that without the ballache of phone calls , samples and now an app where they can watch you operate the valves.
@@leet7031 who can watch you operate valves on a app? Citizens or supervisors? Lol
@@carlosa9672 supervisors can see it , shows how fast you operated it, what time you operated it and what position its left on the network
@@leet7031 oh okay I didn't know that existed. I'm guessing there's a company that makes valves with electronic interfaces that connect to the app?
Had a leak like this on a 6” main we worked on yesterday cracked 3/4 of the way around,it was more of a bitch than we thought it was gonna be
Hi max couplings are the bees knees for replacing sections of pipe if your company will buy them
More local isolation valves would be great so we don’t lose as much drain off when shutting down main supply just an idea
Pipeline is the best line….hooorahhh
Job requirements - must have bathing suit and know how to swim. Great work by these guys.
I expected him to sing a country song like " when it rains it pours" !
Impressive.
They did good work. It's hard to find hard workers when it comes down to this field. Trust me I know I work in this field.
Hell yeah, not a lot of people want to deal with shit like this. Been doing this for a couple of years. Has its ups and downs
did it for 16/hr was not worth the money
huh just had two water breaks on the same water mane in morgan partk minnasota and they turned the entire cityus water supply off and just now started digging almost 6 hours after we lost water pressure from the break... wish it was that fast here on febuary 1st we had 7 breaks in one day in that same line of pipes that broke today and resulted in totally city water shut off because on feb first when the main one broke it rerouted to secondary wich then over pressurized and burst in a cascade failure of water pipes kinda like the cascade failure in the 2003 black out as lines got overloaded and burst our water lines did the same not to mentions this break happened during a snow storm that dumped two and a half feet in 12 hours and was still going strong up until an hour from this post 153am 2/22/2022
Try doing that in Cleveland Ohio in the winter!!!!
As a retired 39 yr water utility employee, nice job in adverse conditions....I'd have made the sob's that did such a fine job with the shutdown put the clamp on!!! Well, it can't be said that you didn't maintain positive pressure!!!!!
Why in the hell wouldn't they shut down a valve or even a few just to reduce volume and pressure ???? Especially on a transite main?
Leyon Tyree the water distribution workers in the video spent time, not shown in this video, trying to shut valves to relieve pressure on the line and had no luck. So after exhausting all efforts to reduce the pressure the crew then had to improvise to try and stop/repair the leak.
Also can’t shut down a transfer main or feeder main without interrupting service. Sometimes you gotta get wet! 😃
City of San Angelo Great video and great repair guys! -Water Operator in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
You can shut a feeder line down because there's no way they only have one line that feeds the city if not they are fucked when it's time to shut it off
That's kinda dangerous that's how ditches cave in and kill people
Its. step should be stopping leakage by using suitable valves.
A lot different from NYC digging conditions- Is that clay you are digging in? We are used to boulders and rock!
Y’all hiring?
@@reeko169 Yes sir!
Awesome work Awesome video. Just curious though why not turn that main down a bit?
Don't wanna put it on a boil order!
@@terrymaine4121pinch the main down and keep positive pressure 😊
My dad and my tio are good people to help us
Next week it will be 2' away...
And that's how you do it!!!!
Looks like fun👍
Is it possible to do a bypass and have no water running in that section of main with a pump?
Ring fracture clamp repair bosh
Leak cured awesome
Good job 👍👊, what kind of pipe was it asbestos or ductile?
Nice work , come work for me in NY . That’s what a water man does .
How many breaks do y'all get in the winter?
What is that machine pumping the water out
Good crew I work for the city of Houston and they only send down one guy to put on a 12” wrap we need better team work