It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation, with
a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the hydrant.
It works fine; nothing cracked.

And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under all
that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the trick. Gave
the heat tape enough time to do its job.

Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets
anymore!

Thanks everyone.

congrats!!!



"FragileWarrior" wrote in message
...
It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation,
with
a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the hydrant.
It works fine; nothing cracked.

And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under all
that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the trick. Gave
the heat tape enough time to do its job.

Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets
anymore!

Thanks everyone.

In article , FragileWarrior wrote:
It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation, with
a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the hydrant.
It works fine; nothing cracked.

And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under all
that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the trick. Gave
the heat tape enough time to do its job.

Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets
anymore!

Thanks everyone.

Cool. Good job. -- and you won't EVER make that mistake again, I guarantee it.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

(Doug Miller) wrote in
. net:

In article ,
FragileWarrior wrote:
It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation,
with a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the
hydrant. It works fine; nothing cracked.

And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under
all that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the
trick. Gave the heat tape enough time to do its job.

Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets
anymore!

Thanks everyone.

Cool. Good job. -- and you won't EVER make that mistake again, I
guarantee it.


If I do, please, someone put me in a home because my better days are
obviously over.

BTW, when I went to fill the trough, all THREE hoses were frozen.
ARGHH!

On Feb 9, 4:54 pm, FragileWarrior
wrote:
(Doug Miller) wrote y.net:





In article ,
FragileWarrior wrote:
It's thawed. Five days of sitting quietly with heat tape, insulation,
with a garbage can shoved down on top of everything finally thawed the
hydrant. It works fine; nothing cracked.

And it was 3 degrees here this a.m. so it has to be just sitting under
all that stuff without being disturbed for five days that did the
trick. Gave the heat tape enough time to do its job.

Yeah! I don't have to haul 50 gallons of water/day in 2.5 gal buckets
anymore!

Thanks everyone.

Cool. Good job. -- and you won't EVER make that mistake again, I
guarantee it.

If I do, please, someone put me in a home because my better days are
obviously over.

BTW, when I went to fill the trough, all THREE hoses were frozen.
ARGHH!- Hide quoted text -


Before next winter you need one of these or similar...

http://www.ritchiefount.com/products.html

"FragileWarrior" wrote in message


If I do, please, someone put me in a home because my better days are
obviously over.

BTW, when I went to fill the trough, all THREE hoses were frozen.
ARGHH!


Nah you still have a lot of life left. You fixed the problem, you even had
the courtesy to give us an update, you still have many good days ahead yet.
Enjoy them.

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in
t:


"FragileWarrior" wrote in message


If I do, please, someone put me in a home because my better days are
obviously over.

BTW, when I went to fill the trough, all THREE hoses were frozen.
ARGHH!


Nah you still have a lot of life left. You fixed the problem, you
even had the courtesy to give us an update, you still have many good
days ahead yet. Enjoy them.


Thanks, Edwin. Updating everyone who had been so kind to try and help nw
was the least I could do. I don't come in this newsgroup a lot but I do
know to come here when I need some serious help.