Fire Hydrant Cut In Half With 60,000 PSI Waterjet

oh that's the poor flesh house like why isn't a huge squid in there strong there we go yeah so we're like a half-inch thick steel pipe eight inch diameter fun fact in the past we cut just one of these caps in half cuz somebody sent it to us so about time we do the rest it was a fun fact in I have fun after much effort we were able to get it up on the table and this is what we came up with we actually took a bunch of our slats the roughest looking ones and we cut an eighth inch diameter circle that was about two inches in from the top of the slot that way when we stick the hydrant on it like so it's down two inches lower which means we can get over that top just barely we've got like an eighth inch of spare room and so the original plan that we wanted to try and do if we could figure out a way is to cut it just from top to bottom in half and that's what we're gonna try and do it's gonna be a long cut okay [Music] [Music] weird black stuff in the water makes me think we cut through some kind of rubber gasket which I'm sure there's it like these connections and up here or even here up here this is where we had technical difficulties and so it missed a spot right there for sure down this side and it feels pretty good a minute there's a spot lady right here I do remember it sputtering right there I'm gonna do a few more cleanup cuts and then we'll roll it over and do the other side because of the way that I filmed this it'll be hard to show the timecode of how long this took but this first half right here took 39 minutes I think is what it was waiting 39 minutes for one half of this I think our previous record on cut time was just like 50 minutes maybe yeah so this has got it beat but we're not done yet [Music] fun fact on the first time lapse if you see where the water is like really bubbling that means the water jet went all the way through and is churning up the water that's where I went through and also right there I guess I went a little too slow we had no idea how thick that was I was guessing like two inches thick but apparently not well you were just too slow for - it's just like that - I dip the cooler half which has this top half it'll be cool because it's got two of the ports on it the other half something can have one port you called dibs I gotta have you I gotta let you have it [Music] it'll cut time on that was I mean we don't have an exact number but it's well over an hour it's movie that looks promising probably still weighs a crap-ton oh yeah there's some big things in there that we were cutting through we still didn't get through one of them lost that at least we know right where it is I cannot believe we actually made it through that that's insane oh this is what we've got you've got the boring half but still kind of cool it's long it's got the two outlets you dibs didn't you get it we thought this was just like set on there but that bolt right there is what was holding it on and and then this bolt right there holds this half on but we cut through that one so that's why that sides a little floppy looks like they've got a dual seal so this is what you turn to turn the water on this turns this entire shaft which then goes eight feet into the ground and then turns the valve and opens it the water then rushes in comes up and then you want it to go out your holes and not leaking through that that what I think it's called a nose don't want the milk to come up in this so this is the first disc that they have in here to keep that water pressure that way and it's resting on the unlike a shoulder look like this has been rotated in there that's why we didn't cut it in half as this moved yeah so the first time we cut it we got about that far coming from that direction and then this direction we got about that far we almost made it and then the second seal to keep water from shooting out the top is this one which this one is bolted to that I'm sure there's some way around there's bolts bolts that yeah and I'm sure there's some kind of gasket material right there that's sealing it and then I don't know what kinda yeah there's the gasket and then I don't know what kind of seal they have inside the Turney part to make sure that doesn't link we'll never know turn the water on that rotates that that goes all the way down valve in the grip this area probably fills up with water because that does not look watertight yeah anyone says more just kind of curbed and dumb to direct the flow outwards yeah the last set screw means this Wow now we can cut this in half the normal way [Music] 1962 is when this fire hydrant was made and installed which explains why all those bolts for such a beast to get off but now we have this cool cross-section and we are also now launching the start of our fire hydrant cutting in half business send it to 735 West 200 North North Salt Lake Utah and we will cut it for you for low low fee of 500 dollars and 99 cents that's just the cutting so you got to provide your own fire hydrant shipping [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Waterjet Channel

Views: 2,023,296

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Id: fiJx-00O2LA

Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020