Jobs in order....
Grocery bagger
Grocery stocker
Frozen foods and dairy manager
Then 20 years designing furnaces that melt and hold aluminum and zinc for casting into parts for anything built in North America and has an engine.
Which means you likely own something made of aluminum or zinc that went thru one of my furnaces.
Then 10 years with a company updating the air traffic control school on NAS Pensacola.
Then four years with a company that builds smokestack pollution scrubbers for coal fired power plants.
No retired and co-founder of the "Fire Ant Ranch".

Hydrant Change
 

This morning our work crew changed out this fire hydrant from 1907. Its amazing it lasted so many years. Especially around here with as many that get hit by cars and trucks!

New Hydrant

That’s cool Martin. Hope the new one isn’t made out of chinesium. Did the 1907 Get hit by a plow or just aged enough to leak?

The new hydrant is made in the USA by Kennedy Valve in Elmira, NY. The old one didn't get hit but it wouldn't drain anymore. We often had to pump it out or it would freeze this time of year.

Nice! I wish they still built stuff like this!:bash2:

Thanks for sharing!:beerchug:

MrMiller - your new hydrant was mfg'd in my hometown, Elmira NY.. I've lived in this area of NY all my life, and know many of the guys that cast, machined, and painted your new hydrant. You're getting a product from a foundry in small town USA where quality and pride of workmanship still mean something.

I'm with you 100% too many things now are just made to throw away.
I thought some may enjoy seeing that old hydrant. I believe their may be a few left in the system that are even older than this one was.

That is very cool!:beerchug: the quality is excellent no doubt! Getting quality stuff is hard to do anymore it seems.

What do you guys use to backfill after install?

We backfill using #2 or #3 stone. Whichever we happen to have at our stockpile. Today it happened to be #3's. As long as the "weep holes" at the bottom of the barrel are able to drain so the hydrant dosent hold water it's good to go. We fill it right up with stone and put a little bank run on top until we get back to topsoil and seed it.