Saturday, December 29, 2012

Two Hydrants



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  1. I was expecting to see a few dogs hanging out around the hydrants:-) In my part of the world red hydrants are a no, no. Yellow is the choice of colour... except when they become art like this one

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    1. Thought most hydrants were red. Interesting that your area has yellow hydrants, but I've seen hydrants in many colors.

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    1. These hydrants were photographed a few weeks ago just before snow fell.

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  3. The first one is spectacular - a never seen before and therefore unknown specimen.
    You know what I am going to ask now?
    ;-)
    Any additional info about this one?

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    1. I didn't have any information about that hydrant, but the Web is a wonderful thing. It is a Kennedy indicator valve which controls the standpipe. To see a pdf file of drawings and description of that value see: http://www.kennedyvalve.com/pdf/wall-posts.pdf

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    2. Ah. Thank you!

      Interesting that valve and standpipe are separated. Though I think I have seen this with modern installations at airports, too.

      Btw - did I ever mentioned this:
      http://www.firehydrant.org/

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  4. Different hydrants for different dogs. That's very nice.

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    1. Yup, some of us dogs are attracted to certain hydrants, but not others.

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