Can someone tell me what this is?
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Not gonna happen
Looks like a fill pipe for some under ground tank. Second pipe a vent?
BTW, a pound and a half!
BTW, a pound and a half!
Dikfer?Not gonna happen
What does that yellow tag say?
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It's called a dry fire hydrant. It is typically used in a non-pressurized water system where the water can be drawn directly from a pond, reservoir, large cistern, shallow well/aquifer, lake, or river.
The type of fire hydrant that we are used to seeing is a wet hydrant. These are used in pressurized water systems.
The type of fire hydrant that we are used to seeing is a wet hydrant. These are used in pressurized water systems.
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If it is anywhere in the Bakken oil reserve area and the owner doesn't know what it is, quick buy the mineral rights.
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I would have thought they would paint the hydrants blue for water. Red tends to be used for petroleum or other things.
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Nope. They are red (or sometimes white with a red cap). They have them near my lake house and the water comes directly out of the lake. Blue is for potable water. Yellow is for Gas, Oil, Steam, Petroleum, or Gaseous Materials
File:Dry Fire Hydrant in East Haven, Vermont April 2018.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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About 2 lbs.
Ours are just plain steel or whatever they use now. They don’t bother painting them anymore. The fire department has locations marked plus the blue reflector in the street to mark them at night.
I think they figured the cost of painting thousands of hydrants was not worth it.
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