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Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53378
06/22/05 08:34 PM
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Today, I returned to a job that has laid dormant for over a year. I put in a 3/4" RMC conduit for landscaping last summer. I had about a 50+ run under a driveway, with Christies on both sides. So I show up today, after a long time away waiting for the driveway, and landscaping to get done. I start stuffing my fish tape ine, and it only goes about a foot... ?
I start from the other side, same thing. What ever I'm hitting feels kind of soft...
I figure theres dirt/mud in the pipe. But I put the thing in myself... I greased, and taped all of the couplings, and they were wrench tight, then taped both sides, my tape is still there, but falling off. I try a few more times, if I get through, I'll swab it I figure. NOTHING!
So I give up. I go to a job a few blocks away, where I know the GC, and I borrow his compressor. I go back, with my jury rigged valve that I have occassion to blow string through with. I figure that if I can get the tape through, I can swab it. I get it all hooked up, fire up the compressor, and give it some air. It makes the wierdest noise!
[phonetic] Phump! Phump! Phump! (long hiss getting lower) Phump! Phump! Thoomp! Thoomp! Thoomp! Thoomp!
Thoomp! Thoomp! (loud hiss of free air) [/phonetic]
I figure its clear... Lets go see what came out? I expect some mud, or mud and some pebbles...
I get to the other side, and its SLUGS!
No, not the KO kind, SLUGS! The slimey, slow moving, snail without a shell kind! They blasted out in the Christy box like the got shot out of a cannon. Some whole, some in parts, SLUGS!
I guess they had a little slug freeway across the driveway, after my tape fell off.
[icky]The wire pulled through REAL smooth![/icky]
Mark Heller "Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason
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Re: Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53379
06/22/05 11:48 PM
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You could have attached the wire to them, and come back in another six months!
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Re: Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53380
06/23/05 12:11 PM
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I thank you both for the best laugh I've had all week!
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Re: Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53381
06/23/05 07:07 PM
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Yuck. What is a Christie?
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Re: Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53382
06/23/05 07:14 PM
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"Christie" is a manufacturer of cement in-the-ground boxes. Another name is "Quartzite."
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Re: Just when you thought you have seen it all....
#53383
06/23/05 07:22 PM
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Christie == concrete pull box
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