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Fixing a Broken Water Service - Quick and Dirty

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Uploaded by on May 17, 2008

Guido guides the bucket through a water service, so he gets to jump in and have fun fixing it!

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  • There are all kinds of better ways than this!

    Everything from a freeze kit, buys you time, to a saddle clamp, no issues with burrs, to, yes, a tubing cutter and compression fitting.

    I am NOT a plumber, I am an equipment operator, and I can do this much better!

  • @Arabhacks

    Yes you certainly could, but why would you want to when you can watch the guy who directed your bucket right through the water service getting thoroughly soaked? ;-) Much more fun to do it the hard way...

  • This was far from safe. There should have been a ladder in the trench for access/egress so the worker doesn't have to ride the excavator bucket to get out.

  • No argument from me.

  • No shut of box?

  • This was between the main and the shut off valve. There may have been one at the main also, but there were several services located between the break and the water main, so this was the quickest and safest thing they could do.

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  • "Who's in charge here?"

    Foreman: "Me"

    "I'm John from OSHA"

    Foreman: "FUCK ME!"

  • A gas saw for cutting copper ? lol

  • hahaha throw a gate valve on under pressure is harder then it looks :) but you get use 2 it speaking from experience

  • Should use a freeze kit much less mess, Also you should change the name from quick in the title, that guy is painful to watch, should of been a matter of seconds....

  • Should get a freeze kit, it's how i do all the services in my municipality. No wet trenches.....

  • @derbja34 Looks like Surrey B.C.

  • @Roninfalls Hey, I wouldn't normally suggest to work with this crew, at all. everything they did was unsafe, holding a saw while wet standing in a buckett, wow!!!! not to smart Guido.. What city was this.?

  • I normally wouldn't suggest using a cut-off saw on copper services.

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