Hydrant?

[oneshot 1]

Got an outside Hydrant leaking. Any ideas on easy way of breaking the Head loose?

oneshot

[MOPanfisher]

Not gonna help you, (or me any more) but two pipe wrenches going different directions and maximum effort.  Given time and an agile mind you could figure a way to ratchet strap one to something solid, and put a cheater handle on the other.  Easier to just tell a big stout feller it too much even for him.  Helps if you have a few cold beers handy, any good stout redneck will at that point say BULL stink  for a couple of them beers I will break it loose for ya.

[fishinwrench]

Cut it, and Shark Bite a new one on.  Greatest invention ever!   

The only tool you need to be a plumber now....is a saw.  

[oneshot]

If worse comes to worse could have my Son dig this up and put a New Hydrant in

oneshot

[snagged in outlet 3]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Cut it, and Shark Bite a new one on.  Greatest invention ever!   

The only tool you need to be a plumber now....is a saw.  

Shark bites are a true ingenious invention.  

[fishinwrench]

Just now, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Shark bites are a true ingenious invention.  

Hell yes they are!   

I left my shop hose on too late in the year and it froze/busted inside a wall.   Cut a 4" hole in the wall, just enough to get a hacksaw blade in there, and pushed a new pipe with hydrant already attached.....Presto!  Done in 20 minutes.

If not for Shark Bite's I would have had to tear the whole friggin wall out.

[tjm]

2 hours ago, oneshot said:

If worse comes to worse could have my Son dig this up and put a New Hydrant in

oneshot

ya might try just adjusting the dang handle (use  the square head bolt)  so that it pushes the rod down a bit more and seats the valve in the bottom tighter. or dig it up first, the shut off and  waste should be about two feet down. nah, if adjustment doesn't work and it usually does; heat the head where it screws on to the stand pipe, let it cool, heat it again and proceed with MOPanfisher's instructions with two pipe wrenches and two red neck kids- one to hold the stand pipe still and one to turn the head. They sell repair kits that include all the rubber parts.

I'm sure that you can  type "repair outside frost free hydrant" in your favorite search engine  and find video and written instruction with pictures.

[MOPanfisher]

You can adjust the "foot" tighter but it is temporary, if it is torn or cut you will eventually have to remove the rod and unscrew the old one and put a new one one.  Silly simply ONCE YOU GET THE SOB APART.

I have not seen a sharkbite fitting to fit galvanized steel pipe, which is what the hydrant riser pipe is.  The rubber foot costs maybe $5, but again getting them apart can sure pull a muscle it a wrench slips, (yeah I know for sure).  Don't forget to turn off the water.  Most of my plumbing lessons have come from bad ideas, mistakes, and or lack of knowledge. 

Unless it's froze or you accidentally break the pipe, then digging it up to replace it would be my last choice.  BTW don't know how the lines are run, but it someone ran PVC all the way to the hydrant and didn't put in a streel L and short length of galvanized pipe, the line is very easy to break.  (See comment on mistakes and bad ideas above).  Dang I wish I had a decent right arm and shoulder I would come over and do it, that getting the head off th hydrant is a "man card tester" at times.  Although we might be able to video it and you and I do it together with a lot of redneck ingenuity, then sell it on pay per view.  Might get enough to pay the big old redneck boys to dig it up after we break something!  

 

[oneshot]

12 hours ago, tjm said:

ya might try just adjusting the dang handle (use  the square head bolt)  so that it pushes the rod down a bit more and seats the valve in the bottom tighter. or dig it up first, the shut off and  waste should be about two feet down. nah, if adjustment doesn't work and it usually does; heat the head where it screws on to the stand pipe, let it cool, heat it again and proceed with MOPanfisher's instructions with two pipe wrenches and two red neck kids- one to hold the stand pipe still and one to turn the head. They sell repair kits that include all the rubber parts.

I'm sure that you can  type "repair outside frost free hydrant" in your favorite search engine  and find video and written instruction with pictures.

Finally went out this morning. Redid the Handle and all is good.

Thanks!

Not sure what it goes into but do know the line goes from the Hydrant straight into my Mother in Laws apartment.

Think she is getting tiered of living here. Said I didn’t mow her grass which I did. Put a Motion Light above her Door. Her Dogs don’t set it off when they go out. I could point it down which should work.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

I thought you were talking about an outside hydrant/faucet connected to the house.    Apparently you are talking about a yard hydrant.