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December 23, 2008
In the trenches
Locating breaks in buried water pipes is a major pain in the ass, but I spent a couple of days excavating a 20 foot trench three feet deep until I found the leak, then cut out and replaced the bad section (which was so clogged that I could see light through a tiny hold only an eighth of an inch in diameter -- in a 3/4 inch pipe). Here's the result:
That's five feet of new pipe coupled together with a beautiful new union! This hasn't allowed much time for blogging, but the digging through hard clay soil and wallowing in cold muck sure is good exercise! posted by Eric on 12.23.08 at 11:55 PM
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Harrumph! Getting my carefully disguised double entendres is not allowed! Eric Scheie · December 24, 2008 12:46 AM You could have located the leak with a stethoscope before you got out the shovel. Brett · December 24, 2008 09:03 AM Hope you remembered to wrap the pipe with underground tape before you buried it. Soil acid eats away galvanized pipe. chocolatier · December 24, 2008 11:36 AM Black iron pipe takes well over 100 years to rot away like that. Galvanized steel pipe was a very bad idea for carrying water. The Romans used lead--it didn't rust at all! Point of fact, they really liked terra cotta: rust free, slow to erode, ecologically sound, and you'd have to bury it at about 60 inches to avoid Michigan frost. The unions are tricky, too, to turn an entendre entirely bad. comatus · December 25, 2008 10:18 PM Post a comment
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A beautiful union? Too bad they didn't have you in Gettysburg.