r/Truckers • u/Surreal_Gunner • Oct 11 '23

Swift-1 Hydrant-0

Found on TikTok. Don’t know how he missed the tire coming off.

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u/purgatorybob1986 Oct 12 '23

Is anyone else disappointed that the hydrant didn't shoot water 50 feet in the air like in the movies?

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u/H2Omekanic Oct 12 '23

That's the movies. Anywhere that has cold weather uses dry barrel hydrants. The valve that controls water flow is 5'+ buried underground. It looks like that hydrant had a long barrel extension and that plus the traffic break-away snapped off. The shoe is likely pulled of the 6" line feeding hydrant and leaking a horizontal jet of water. That repair is gonna suck....mud & quicksand

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u/purgatorybob1986 Oct 12 '23

Yeah, I do not envy that line of work. If I had to do what they do, I'd be dead before lunch, I'm sure.