I'll repeat in case you missed it or
your ISP missed it. I would try a
torpedo heater
blowing into the canvas tarp tent you
already mentioned.

FragileWarrior wrote:
Still frozen after 24 hours.

Anyone know how I can create a hole in the ozone right over the hydrant?
-12 overnight was probably not a big help in getting anything thawed even
WITH heat tape and insulation.

"Art Todesco" wrote in message
t...
I'll repeat in case you missed it or
your ISP missed it. I would try a
torpedo heater
blowing into the canvas tarp tent you
already mentioned.

FragileWarrior wrote:
Still frozen after 24 hours.

Anyone know how I can create a hole in the ozone right over the hydrant?
-12 overnight was probably not a big help in getting anything thawed
even
WITH heat tape and insulation.

depending on the size of the tent contraption....it'll melt or burn it up.
those heaters put out too many btu's. she needs direct heat source to the
pipe and ground surface not just ambient warm air. like a thremal blanket.

mike........

Art Todesco wrote in
t:

I'll repeat in case you missed it or
your ISP missed it. I would try a
torpedo heater
blowing into the canvas tarp tent you
already mentioned.

I don't own one and I don't know anyone who does. Nor can I find one for
rent and I'm not buying one just for this. Plus, it wasn't a canvas tarp,
it was a plastic one. It would have been a blue plastic puddle real quick.

"JerseyMike" wrote in
:


"Art Todesco" wrote in message
t...
I'll repeat in case you missed it or
your ISP missed it. I would try a
torpedo heater
blowing into the canvas tarp tent you
already mentioned.

FragileWarrior wrote:
Still frozen after 24 hours.

Anyone know how I can create a hole in the ozone right over the
hydrant? -12 overnight was probably not a big help in getting
anything thawed
even
WITH heat tape and insulation.

depending on the size of the tent contraption....it'll melt or burn it
up. those heaters put out too many btu's. she needs direct heat
source to the pipe and ground surface not just ambient warm air. like
a thremal blanket.

mike........




I think I'm going to give up and wait this out. Everyone THINK SPRING
for me.

In article , FragileWarrior wrote:

I think I'm going to give up and wait this out. Everyone THINK SPRING
for me.

You won't have to wait for spring. We'll have above-freezing temperatures
again soon. My guess is by Valentine's Day. What we're experiencing right now
is unusual for central Indiana: "normal" February weather is lows in the low
20s and highs in the upper 30s. Normal weather for today's date is low 20,
high 37.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/print_lo...climatenormals.
txt

--
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:

I think I'm going to give up and wait this out. Everyone THINK SPRING
for me.

You won't have to wait for spring. We'll have above-freezing
temperatures again soon. My guess is by Valentine's Day. What we're
experiencing right now is unusual for central Indiana: "normal"
February weather is lows in the low 20s and highs in the upper 30s.
Normal weather for today's date is low 20, high 37.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/print_lo...t&data=climate
normals. txt


God, I hope so. Gunga Din, I'm not.

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:28:58 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , FragileWarrior wrote:

Central Indiana. The water I'm spilling on the barn (cement) floor is
freezing as soon as it hits.

Hey, Warrior, greetings from a fellow Hoosier! What part, exactly, of central
Indiana are you in? I'm in Indianapolis right now... used to be in rural
Pendleton until mid-'99.

I'm glad you got parole.

I spent JHS and HS in Indianapolis.

WAs there two years ago for my uncle's funeral. The city is bigger
but nothing else has changed.

It might have been on this group I mentioned how they motor boat in
one of the city's two reservoirs, and people didn't believe me. (They
only have sail boats in the other.)
Nice time to freeze a well spigot up, huh?

It's a PITA, all right. I certainly sympathize.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:13:30 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:


Central Indiana, and, yes, doesn't it figure that THIS is the first time
I made this mistake??

Didn't you make the mistake precisely because the pipe was frozen and
there was no water coming out? If there had been water coming out,
you would have turned it off.

This is a variation on those where there is a water main break and
they turn their faucet on and when no water comes out, they don't
close it again. Then when the water is repaired, the water comes out
full blast, and overflows the sink etc.

I think most people** do this until they have some bad experience,
although often that is a very small one.

**Any mistake one has made, he is likely to attribute to "most
people".
I'll try the saline injection tomorrow if the heat
tape/insulation/garbage can-shed didn't work.