GaryM
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They used a similar method to repair a cracked cast iron main in my front yard a few years back. They dug down and slipped a sleeve around the pipe and bolted it up.
How to fix a leak in a 6 inch water line.
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I'm a bit surprised they are working in that hole without cave-in protection. Especially since the wet ground shifted to cause the break. Also, no eye protection (didn't see ear protection) when running the Stihl to cut-off the piece. Interesting, but probably not the norm to do it until something goes haywire. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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Going from east to west you go from thick pine forest to mountains and desert. Going from south to north you go from coastal marshes to the high plains of the panhandle. In between, there is a little of everything. It is over 800 miles east to west and the same north to south.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( After the bell side was cut off, they cut off the other end as well. Turns out the water rushing past the gaskets actually wore a groove into the pipe!!!
Any Stihl fans??
Eddie
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Mornin Eddie,
We have one of those saws in our local volunteer FD. We use it for cutting a hole in the roof, usually about 4ft by 4ft for venting a charged home on fire. The blade we use is a carbide toothed blade about 20 teeth and 1/4" wide. We also have some other blades, but thats what we usually have on the saw.
scotty
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Mornin Eddie,
We have one of those saws in our local volunteer FD. We use it for cutting a hole in the roof, usually about 4ft by 4ft for venting a charged home on fire. The blade we use is a carbide toothed blade about 20 teeth and 1/4" wide. We also have some other blades, but thats what we usually have on the saw.
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Rob,
I was also surprised at the number of pines and how thick the woods are here in East Texas. When I tell people about it, I tell them to think of Louisiana. If left alone, the woods are too thick to walk through. Half of every plant here has thorns on it, and if they don’t get you, the vines will. About an hour West of me, between here and Dallas, there’s a line where the pines start. One minute is all scrub stuff, than you’re in the pines. I've been told the soil has to have a certain level of acidity to it for pines to grow, which exists from here all the way to the East Coast.
kenmac,
The water department guys said they have clamps to handle their largest pipe, which is 16 inches. I’ve only dealt with low pressure clamps myself, the ones with the hose clamp type fastener. Never seen these before, but was impressed with how stout there were.
GaryM.
Funny you mentioned cast iron pipes. I asked if they had any iron pipes around to deal with. There are all sorts of steal ones in the ground from when the Army had a base here 60 years ago. There is a section that they are constantly having to repair that is just about all clamps now. Why they don’t replace the entire run is anybodies guess.
beenthere,
Things are very different here in the country, and Texas as a whole, compared to where I’m from in California. I’ve only seen ditches shored up on really big projects in the city. Never on smaller ones or anything out of city limits. The soil is all clay and I just guess cave ins are so rare that nobody ever thinks about them. In California, people were always in the new from dying from cave ins while working in ditches. They did have goggles, but the funny thing is they didn’t use them. On the cut in the ditch, both guys had their goggles on their heads!!!
Scotty,
It’s a small Water Department, but they buy quality stuff. Watching them work with it, I kept thinking how nice it would be to have one of those, but I really have no use for it.
Eddie
I was also surprised at the number of pines and how thick the woods are here in East Texas. When I tell people about it, I tell them to think of Louisiana. If left alone, the woods are too thick to walk through. Half of every plant here has thorns on it, and if they don’t get you, the vines will. About an hour West of me, between here and Dallas, there’s a line where the pines start. One minute is all scrub stuff, than you’re in the pines. I've been told the soil has to have a certain level of acidity to it for pines to grow, which exists from here all the way to the East Coast.
kenmac,
The water department guys said they have clamps to handle their largest pipe, which is 16 inches. I’ve only dealt with low pressure clamps myself, the ones with the hose clamp type fastener. Never seen these before, but was impressed with how stout there were.
GaryM.
Funny you mentioned cast iron pipes. I asked if they had any iron pipes around to deal with. There are all sorts of steal ones in the ground from when the Army had a base here 60 years ago. There is a section that they are constantly having to repair that is just about all clamps now. Why they don’t replace the entire run is anybodies guess.
beenthere,
Things are very different here in the country, and Texas as a whole, compared to where I’m from in California. I’ve only seen ditches shored up on really big projects in the city. Never on smaller ones or anything out of city limits. The soil is all clay and I just guess cave ins are so rare that nobody ever thinks about them. In California, people were always in the new from dying from cave ins while working in ditches. They did have goggles, but the funny thing is they didn’t use them. On the cut in the ditch, both guys had their goggles on their heads!!!
Scotty,
It’s a small Water Department, but they buy quality stuff. Watching them work with it, I kept thinking how nice it would be to have one of those, but I really have no use for it.
Eddie
