Thank you for showing the repair of broken main. I'm just asking for people that DON'T know how you put on blue repair couplings. Can you show how that done, maybe just on a piece of pipe, off your pickup bed. 😊 do you guys have a sweeper street cleaning truck. For all the dirt on the street. Have you ever run foam rubber cubes down mains, or do you just flush the hydrant to make water clear. I'm not asking this for after the main break. On normal main flushing. Great video on showing a main break repair. The vacuum trucks are such a great tool. Especially keeping water out of work area.
@@rp1645 I sure can do a video of a clamp and a piece of pipe, yes we have a street sweeper , it’s garbage , getting a new one in the spring😁we have to flush out the contaminated water that may have gotten into the open line from the saw making cuts and the ditch water that gets into the main , we have to test the water to make sure it’s clean , not much pigging here
@rodpreston100 I tried ( pigging) but it took a lot of piping to make launch stand pipes by Hydrant We had lots of iron and manganese in water mains from none filter well water
21 years in small town Alberta most of which i was the utilities coordinator (fancy name for the foreman) retired last April we use a Milwaukee grinder or reciprocating saw to cut the pipes. didn't see you sample for Chlorine, do you? we had to do turbidity Chlorine and Bact sampling upstream downstream and at the site. our town would have made you use shoring in that hole. most of our breaks were frost ie lateral cracks so we could get away with a robar repair clamp.
@@rodpreston100 we isolate the area of repair to reduce flows. in Alberta we are required to do the three samples as I stated before so flushing must be done before lines are charged a zippy and reciprocating saw actually require less room around the pipe for cutting and it cuts fairly fast we used to use a huskavarna saw but felt the exhaust fumes in the hole were more of a hazard as most of our line breaks occur in subzero temps the fumes stay in the hole most of our breaks are lateral cracks and a repair clamp can be used i do agree with training i have been told i am anal about standing over the new guys directing them or getting in the hole teaching our lines are 9 to 12 feet deep and our director insists on shoring rather than expanding the hole to step it we have a lot of old steel lines some AC plastic and now a few HDPE
@@orangethunderz7079 yup you are right , just watched the demonstration, I usually leave a quarter inch gap, but now I will do it the way the show in the video, haven’t had a problem yet, but if we do, it’s all by the hour 🍻🍻😁
I'd kill to be on a crew like this. I'm 23 working for a city in the US on a water crew and you'd be surprised the lack of instruction these guys give before they send the young guy into the hole.
@@theodorejohnkaczynski9442 some of the older guys don’t like change, or might want to see if the younger ones can figure things out , not sure if that’s the case with where you’re at at 🍻😁but I can be cranky some days and not give advice , lol all depends on the day 😉🍻🍻stay safe out there !!
@@smalltownmachineshop6860 mostly ductile iron, and some cast iron, new sections of main are now blue brute ( c-900 ), not much asbestos cement left in the ground , but there is some
@@rodpreston100 nice, when I replace splits in pipe I always cut out the bad section then cut a 1 inch ring on each side, if the crack is still in it it will separate, if not your good, that’s mostly for 1/4 wall steel and older iron pipe that would get beam breaks in it
@smalltownmachineshop6860 ahh great advice!! Tips and tricks 😀I just visually inspected it today, didn’t see or feel any more cracks , but I guess if it’s a hairline crack , be hard to see .. thanks for the tip !! I will do that from now on for sure 🍻🍻
A couple of hundred thousand years from now, archaeologists digging up the old ruined settlement of Truro will come across the linear iron oxide layers buried in the ground and probably understand this was for water circulation. Below that they'll find a whole lot of odd six inch circular holes filled with different soils, some containing the decomposed remains of a Tim Horten's cup or fabric, and wonder what odd ceremonial rituals were acted when the pipes were installed. What causes a split like that in the pipe?
@@brucetheloon pipe moves underground , coming into fall the nights are getting colder so it probably started off as a small leak andwe are doing our yearly fall hydrant flushing , so that may have helped cause the pipe to split
@@rodpreston100 - oh, I'm sure it's ok if you've been trained and have several years of experience like you do ... but it still scares the crap out of me ! I enjoy your content, keep it coming !!
Ya ...I would say you have a LEAKER ! Pipe does not look that old ...Send it back for warranty ! Ok I will ask " how is Camron ? broken or cut ? Hope he heals it will be great conversations. Nice to see you teach every employee as it goes !
@@rodpreston100 at 0:13 instead of saying good morning, you beautiful bitches just say good morning everyone how is your day going and finish saying what you were saying
Thank you for showing the repair of broken main. I'm just asking for people that DON'T know how you put on blue repair couplings. Can you show how that done, maybe just on a piece of pipe, off your pickup bed. 😊 do you guys have a sweeper street cleaning truck. For all the dirt on the street. Have you ever run foam rubber cubes down mains, or do you just flush the hydrant to make water clear. I'm not asking this for after the main break. On normal main flushing. Great video on showing a main break repair. The vacuum trucks are such a great tool. Especially keeping water out of work area.
@@rp1645 I sure can do a video of a clamp and a piece of pipe, yes we have a street sweeper , it’s garbage , getting a new one in the spring😁we have to flush out the contaminated water that may have gotten into the open line from the saw making cuts and the ditch water that gets into the main , we have to test the water to make sure it’s clean , not much pigging here
@rodpreston100
I tried ( pigging) but it took a lot of piping to make launch stand pipes by Hydrant
We had lots of iron and manganese in water mains from none filter well water
love the way you taught that guy to tap, youre a great teacher
@@hustlehumbly6169 yup he never used the new tapping gear , he was trained on the old mueller B101 tapping gear , 🍻🍻thank you 🙂
Love your videos watching from cape Breton Nova Scotia
Cheers from Truro!! 🍻🍻🍻
@rodpreston100 Cheers from Cape Breton
Interesting channel, would be nice if you could explain what you’re doing, and the different tools you use.
21 years in small town Alberta most of which i was the utilities coordinator (fancy name for the foreman) retired last April we use a Milwaukee grinder or reciprocating saw to cut the pipes. didn't see you sample for Chlorine, do you? we had to do turbidity Chlorine and Bact sampling upstream downstream and at the site. our town would have made you use shoring in that hole. most of our breaks were frost ie lateral cracks so we could get away with a robar repair clamp.
Of course, trench was perfect, must take a month to do a main repair using a grinder with positive pressure lol 🍻😁😉
@@rodpreston100 we isolate the area of repair to reduce flows. in Alberta we are required to do the three samples as I stated before so flushing must be done before lines are charged a zippy and reciprocating saw actually require less room around the pipe for cutting and it cuts fairly fast we used to use a huskavarna saw but felt the exhaust fumes in the hole were more of a hazard as most of our line breaks occur in subzero temps the fumes stay in the hole most of our breaks are lateral cracks and a repair clamp can be used i do agree with training i have been told i am anal about standing over the new guys directing them or getting in the hole teaching our lines are 9 to 12 feet deep and our director insists on shoring rather than expanding the hole to step it we have a lot of old steel lines some AC plastic and now a few HDPE
when you do the hymax the pipes cant be touching. we just had a hymax demo. our hymaxs leaks all the time anything over 6 inch
@@orangethunderz7079 yup you are right , just watched the demonstration, I usually leave a quarter inch gap, but now I will do it the way the show in the video, haven’t had a problem yet, but if we do, it’s all by the hour 🍻🍻😁
We had the same thing happen the other day only ours was from opening and closing valves
@@paulbennett9002 yup that will do it!! We are flushing hydrants so that will most definitely cause a few more before we’re done in the next few weeks
Thanks for sharing
@@guygfm4243 thanks for watching !!! 🍻🍻
I'd kill to be on a crew like this. I'm 23 working for a city in the US on a water crew and you'd be surprised the lack of instruction these guys give before they send the young guy into the hole.
@@theodorejohnkaczynski9442 some of the older guys don’t like change, or might want to see if the younger ones can figure things out , not sure if that’s the case with where you’re at at 🍻😁but I can be cranky some days and not give advice , lol all depends on the day 😉🍻🍻stay safe out there !!
I see you guys have a lot of steel lines, do you have much ac
@@smalltownmachineshop6860 mostly ductile iron, and some cast iron, new sections of main are now blue brute ( c-900 ), not much asbestos cement left in the ground , but there is some
@@rodpreston100 nice, when I replace splits in pipe I always cut out the bad section then cut a 1 inch ring on each side, if the crack is still in it it will separate, if not your good, that’s mostly for 1/4 wall steel and older iron pipe that would get beam breaks in it
@smalltownmachineshop6860 ahh great advice!! Tips and tricks 😀I just visually inspected it today, didn’t see or feel any more cracks , but I guess if it’s a hairline crack , be hard to see .. thanks for the tip !! I will do that from now on for sure 🍻🍻
Can't go wrong with hi-max
With you guys being in Canada why are your trucks 2wd? Love the channel as well
@@dominicselzo3511 right???? we asked that same question for years !!! 🍻
23:28 Rear-view mirror sticker is 👌🤣
@@RobTheTrucker 😝🍻🍻
Lmao we may be from Canada, but not like that!
@@jayjackson4685 lmao!!
A couple of hundred thousand years from now, archaeologists digging up the old ruined settlement of Truro will come across the linear iron oxide layers buried in the ground and probably understand this was for water circulation. Below that they'll find a whole lot of odd six inch circular holes filled with different soils, some containing the decomposed remains of a Tim Horten's cup or fabric, and wonder what odd ceremonial rituals were acted when the pipes were installed.
What causes a split like that in the pipe?
@@brucetheloon pipe moves underground , coming into fall the nights are getting colder so it probably started off as a small leak andwe are doing our yearly fall hydrant flushing , so that may have helped cause the pipe to split
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4:11 damn I would not want my legs within 10 ft of that saw !
@steve318k lol it’s not that bad , great saw , cuts very easily, my thumb is always right under the kill switch 🍻🍻
@@rodpreston100 - oh, I'm sure it's ok if you've been trained and have several years of experience like you do ... but it still scares the crap out of me ! I enjoy your content, keep it coming !!
Ya ...I would say you have a LEAKER ! Pipe does not look that old ...Send it back for warranty ! Ok I will ask " how is Camron ? broken or cut ? Hope he heals it will be great conversations. Nice to see you teach every employee as it goes !
@@suzylarry1 thank you!! he’s ok, couple stitches and I’m sure a very sore finger ,,
@@rodpreston100 at 0:13 instead of saying good morning, you beautiful bitches just say good morning everyone how is your day going and finish saying what you were saying
How deep was that hole..very deep for an 8 inch
@@ronkali5365 5 feet to the top of the 6 inch water main , Canada , gotta be below the frost line
Very dangerous, not protected from sides caving in and killing him.
We were well within the legal limit of slope and depth, it was good , 🍻🍻