It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation, with a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the hydrant. It works fine; nothing cracked.
And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under all that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the trick. Gave the heat tape enough time to do its job.
Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets anymore!
Thanks everyone.
congrats!!!
"FragileWarrior" with
In article , FragileWarrior a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the hydrant.
Cool. Good job. -- and you won't EVER make that mistake again, I guarantee it.
snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:Nr6zh.74638$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net:
If I do, please, someone put me in a home because my better days are obviously over.
BTW, when I went to fill the trough, all THREE hoses were frozen.
Before next winter you need one of these or similar...
"FragileWarrior"
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:UVbzh.8705$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:
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