On Jan 23, 4:48*pm, IGot2P wrote:
On 1/23/2011 5:11 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

Yard hydrands, like fire department hydrants. Very often,
there is a controlling rod, the actual valve is below the
frost line. There shoul d be a drain on the bottom. When the
valve is closed, the water within the vertical pipe drains
into the ground.
* * *http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex641

Of course when the valve is closed the water should drain out of the
weep hole but my hydrant is NEVER closed thus there is always water in
the standpipe from approx. 4' underground up to the top of the hydrant.

Don

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Well CLOSE it after you use it or someday it will freeze. If we leave
it open up here in the frozen north it will freeze. They are designed
to drain once you close them off.

Stormin' Norman has it right...read his posting and learn.
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