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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Plumbing.

In this Badge Bit, you will install a hydrant (Note that this BB is part of a 1-part choose your own adventure list BB called the Big List. You must complete one Badge Bit in the Big List.)

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To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- install a hydrant

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
- a before picture of the place where the hydrant will be installed
- a halfway picture through the installation process of the hydrant
- an action shot of the working newly installed hydrant
- OR a 2-minute video of you doing this

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Mark Miner

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posted 4 months ago

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Hey PEP-folks,
This was a busy weekend. In the "plan then plants" or "plants then plan" competition, I am more the latter. So, early Thursday morning while it was still cool, I picked up half a dozen Manzanillo olive trees in Phoenix, and brought them down. My wife wants to reclaim some of our driveway back to plants (the handy big loop leftover from construction 3 years ago never really went away). But the region in the middle of the erstwhile loop still wasn't adjacent to a hose, and that's where the olives were to go! Hydrant to the rescue.

A while back, I ran a 3/4in water line to the stock pens, and this was the tap point (Fig1). 84ft away was the hydrant destination (Fig2). So, I work with the backhoe, lay some scrap 1in PEX (3 pieces had to be joined, but scrap is free and couplers for Wirsbo are affordable, Fig3), and tap the copper side of the stock pen line (Fig4). The hydrant gets screwed to a scrap galvanized purlin length as a post (Fig5), and leftover gravel gets dumped all around it for the weep hole. We don't have a frost depth where I live, so I just got a 12in-depth hydrant (K2 brand from Home Depot). We do occasionally have cold nights, so I appreciate the freeze-proof-ness of the exposed portion. The trench got proper tracer wire laid in it, and the hydrant is now set to go for the new olives, hooray (Fig6)!

Happy hydrants,
Mark

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To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
- a before picture of the place where the hydrant will be installed (Fig2)
- a halfway picture through the installation process of the hydrant (Figs1,3,4,5)
- an action shot of the working newly installed hydrant (Fig6) ]

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