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On the up side, it wasn’t the right pipe anyway. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “A fire hydrant kludge like this almost killed my poodle. By the time he got done leaving his mark up and down all over the entire thing he nearly died of dehydration. Now every time we walk past it I ask him, ‘What are you going to do now…Pierre?’”
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FYI…
This is more than likely a temporary thing. The red thing is a check valve and meter that:
1) Prevents contamination of the water supply
2) Tracks water usage
This is used frequently by construction workers to fill water tanks on the job, rather than traveling long distances to retrieve water for equipment. You can see in the background that there are fresh paint marks and saw cuts in the pavement and concrete.
It’s nice to see what length BP will finally go to to educate the public and stop silly rumors.
LOL wut?
If that doesn’t confuse my dog, nothing will.
Which one’s the crapper and which is the pisser?
too old to get mario reference (raises hand for an explanation, please). don’t make me ask my grandkids.
dude, you must be ancient, that game’s been out for over 20 years now…
Mario is a character from a Nintendo game series that has become one of the longest and most successful video game series of all time. He often uses pipes to travel to new parts of levels and/or new worlds.
Here’s a video showing the first level of the first Super Mario Bro’s game for the NES.
And a wonderful Trip & Fall hazard, too! Right out there on a public sidewalk, and with the wharf-head outlet at convenient shin-scarring height with no cap to protect you from the threads…
Guys, ever heard of temporary barricades?
(They paint fire hydrants a bright yellow or red so you can SEE them.)
Is this on the corner of Tort and Sosueme? If so call J Sokolove and Partners at 555-6789.
This looks photoshopped.
The red thing is a hydrant meter, and ideally it wouldn’t have this Rube Goldberg attachment, it would simply screw directly into one of the outlets on the yellow hydrant, most likely the one on the top right side. Perhaps the direction the standpipe is set was the problem, with any outlet the meter would be sticking out into the street or covering more sidewalk space.
On a separate note, a personal observation. I find it frankly quite rude that this series is called the “White Trash” this or that. I really wish you’d get rid of that title. It doesn’t help make these photos any funnier, but it makes me kind of embarrassed that someone hasn’t pointed out just how off-putting that jargon is.
Thanks.
I hope this isn’t real
This isn’t a kludge, just a common way to provide a construction company with lots of water, right at their job site.
A fire hydrant kludge like this almost killed my poodle. By the time he got done leaving his mark up and down all over the entire thing he nearly died of dehydration. Now every time we walk past it I ask him, “What are you going to do now…Pierre?”
thanks to the new super mario bros, he can just eat a mini-mushroom…
he’ll easily fit those tiny pipes now!
How does that hydrant work? It looks like that hydrant has a separate 5 sided knob for each outlet. Around here, the valve is 4 or more feet down, so it won’t freeze. The control for the valve is on top with a long rod going down to the valve. The firemen have a 5 sided wrench to work the 5 sided knob.
How do the utility workers control the water flow through the top of the hydrant? There aren’t any free valves, or anything that looks like a master valve.
You attach your fire hose or your hydrant meter to the male fixture on the standpipe (you see two on the right side of this) or, apparently, to an outlet on the top, and then you use a special wrench to turn the valve opposite the spigot to turn on the water. Normally you have only one valve, but this looks like it has a couple.
The red thing in the welded sequence of pipe is the hydrant meter, meaning that there is a louver that revolves as water passes through and it measures the amount of water. This is a way the business needing water can use water and pay the city for what they use. The meter would belong to the municipality selling the water. I used to use one of these meters, put in place and then a fire hose length attached, to fill a 250 gallon tank that slid into my pickup truck. I was a volunteer watering trees in the neighborhood, and the water was measured so the department knew how much water we were using.
Are you kidding me? This is one of the worst photoshop jobs I’ve seen. The shadows aren’t even close to realistic, and look at the “block” the pipe is sitting on. Amateurs.
It’s clearly shooped…
absolutely shopped and poorly done at that.
here we can see the shop-caller in it’s natural form. It strives by sounding intelligent and calling the Photoshop card whenever they see something they aren’t familiar with, which is quite a bit, caused by their reluctance to exit their home.
I’ve seen more than one setup like this, and it’s real
It’s a temporary meter for water to wash off trucks when they emerge from the basement garage project. They’re not unusual.