ecofarmer
Well-known member
This week they put up our second 15,000 gallon water storage tank put in this week. So far it's been installed, filled, redid the filling lines, and this morning they were redoing the delivery system when it all got fun. I ended up promoting or demoting one of my workers to GC or babysitter depending on how you look at it.
Last afternoon he called me to drive up there to talk to the plumbers and the tank installing contractor. It was about changing over the old valve assembly with the new larger one. Every thing sounded good and decided to do it this morning. It was a simple plan; cut off the old feed valve, cut the pipe a few inches off the wall, pull old assembly off the wall being hung by straps, mount new assembly, move the 2" poly lines to the new assembly, temp feed with 2" fire hose, and run new hard line. This would cut the water off for about 20 min.
So we all get up there today and they talk it all out again and get it all set up. It was 2 plumbers and there boss on site. I thought it could get fun so I brought my kids up with me and I planed for something to go wrong.
P#1 kills the water
Boss tell P#2 to start cutting,
P#1 walks in with second saw,
Employee looks at me and asked who was getting wet first,
Boss comments on the amount of water that there getting,
P#2 says it's just the water in the pipes,
Genset makes strange noise and I heard the sound of GFCI outlet pop,
P#2 screams at the top of his lungs "turn it off",
Employee runs for the man hole and see that the wrong valve was not cut off,
3 wet dogs come walking out.
P#2 got 90% through the pipe when it bent and they had the full flow of a 2" line, 20' of head, and about 20,000 gallons behind it.
Boss says some words I'm not typing at his 2 workers
Total time of water being cut off was 40 min and was better than any movie I had seen in the last 2 years.
They decided to take an early lunch to get something dry to wear.
Just remember that the simple plans in life never work if you ask some else to do something simple for you.
Last afternoon he called me to drive up there to talk to the plumbers and the tank installing contractor. It was about changing over the old valve assembly with the new larger one. Every thing sounded good and decided to do it this morning. It was a simple plan; cut off the old feed valve, cut the pipe a few inches off the wall, pull old assembly off the wall being hung by straps, mount new assembly, move the 2" poly lines to the new assembly, temp feed with 2" fire hose, and run new hard line. This would cut the water off for about 20 min.
So we all get up there today and they talk it all out again and get it all set up. It was 2 plumbers and there boss on site. I thought it could get fun so I brought my kids up with me and I planed for something to go wrong.
P#1 kills the water
Boss tell P#2 to start cutting,
P#1 walks in with second saw,
Employee looks at me and asked who was getting wet first,
Boss comments on the amount of water that there getting,
P#2 says it's just the water in the pipes,
Genset makes strange noise and I heard the sound of GFCI outlet pop,
P#2 screams at the top of his lungs "turn it off",
Employee runs for the man hole and see that the wrong valve was not cut off,
3 wet dogs come walking out.
P#2 got 90% through the pipe when it bent and they had the full flow of a 2" line, 20' of head, and about 20,000 gallons behind it.
Boss says some words I'm not typing at his 2 workers
Total time of water being cut off was 40 min and was better than any movie I had seen in the last 2 years.
They decided to take an early lunch to get something dry to wear.
Just remember that the simple plans in life never work if you ask some else to do something simple for you.