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Current Events => The DUmpster => The DUmping Ground => Topic started by: Tucker on May 09, 2010, 01:10:51 PM
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 09:54 PM
Original message
I cut a live cold water pipe once by mistake...
Edited on Sat May-08-10 10:00 PM by LeftyFingerPop
due to the fact that my local water company did not shut off an old supply from the street.
I cut it with a reciprocating saw, and there was no shut-off valve.
Cold water with amazing pressure shot out of the pipe and began to flood my basement. I tried to hold the water off with my thumb, but the pressure was so great, that it misdirected the gusher.
I then grabbed a brick of duct seal (which is like clay),and molded it around the leak. This worked only a little better than my thumb.
Then I finally remembered something about a hose that I had heard.
I cut a 4 inch piece of rubber garden hose. I slit it lengthwise. I placed it slit-side down over the leak in the horizontal pipe. I placed two radiator hose clamps over each end of the hose and tightened until the spray stopped completely.
In regard to the oil spill...see what I'm sayin'?
Old lefty flinging poop is trying to become immortal.
elias49 (438 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 09:56 PM
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1. Not really... nt
:-)
Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:00 PM
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4. Ok scale it up 1000X and do it a mile under water by robot.
What a party pooper. I bet he questioned concrete and chicken wire.
Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:15 PM
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9. I don't think the oil leak is a broken pipe.
It is a well, a hole going more or less straight down. The problem is capping a failed wellhead, not repairing a broken pipe.
LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:21 PM
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13. dig down 20 feet around the entire "hole" perimeter...
thus exposing sunk pipe?
A DUmmy that's really a DUmmy.
Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:33 PM
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15. 20 feet? I don't think you quite understand the dimensions.
Here is a blow out preventor - the wellhead cap that failed.
That is a one story 'cap' on top of the well head. You can't 'dig 20 feet around' the well, it is seabed floor, likely sand, and any digging you do will simply collapse around you as you dig. And of course this is all one mile down under extreme pressure.
LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:38 PM
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17. OK....100 feet...
And I believe there must be a way to dig or even drill around that pipe. After all, they did manage to sink it into the sea floor.
is stupidity is showing with every post.
truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:15 PM
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10. Good solution for saving your baement fromfurther flooding. Updated at 3:46 PM
However, I don't think it would work for BP - there is just too much pressure on the leaks resulting from that ruptured oil rigging.
LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:19 PM
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12. Probably greater PSI measured relative pressure on my pipe than the oil pipe.
jdlh8894 (896 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:16 PM
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11. What would they splice to?
The rig and all pipe is gone.How do you make a splice with nothing to work with?
LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 10:24 PM
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14. I'm thinking that the hole is actually just pipe cut off at ground level.
Dig around the hole to expose the pipe.
tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat May-08-10 11:19 PM
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19. You should send this idea to BP. I bet they haven't even thought of it.
Sans sarcasm smiley.
Another DUmmy of the year nominee.
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What a frickin moron, and he is so sure he is right too. These are the kinds of minds that bring us chicken wire and kerosene proof.
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Simple: Just fill in those well holes with tampons and Depends! They will expand and block it.
That'll stop the leak.
//DUmmie Mode Off
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What a frickin moron, and he is so sure he is right too. These are the kinds of minds that bring us chicken wire and kerosene proof.
I just looked that up the other day! :-)
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I just looked that up the other day! :-)
It should be a sticky.
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It should be a sticky.
Done.....
doc
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Done.....
doc
I was talking about the twin tower experiement with the chicken wire. Sorry.
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Speechless.
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I was talking about the twin tower experiement with the chicken wire. Sorry.
OK....but ya gotta admit, this is close..........
I'll leave it up for a while.
doc
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I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?
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Speechless.
DUmmies can solve any problem. Except in real life.
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I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?
Obviously, the garden-variety kind.
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I have to admit, I truly stand in awe of the thought processes required to come to that solution.
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I have to admit, I truly stand in awe of the thought processes required to come to that solution.
Sometimes, the stupid is unbelievably jaw-dropping. One's jaw would drop in zero gravity.
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I don't believe the DUmmie ever patched a leak in this manner. We all know he would have went to the DUmp and asked for suggestions on how to stop the leak, even as his basement was being flooded.
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A news article I saw earlier had people calling BP and suggesting fixes, such as sticking a big cork in the pipe. Dummies are everywhere. :thatsright:
On further thought, it's a shame that it wasn't a gas line the dummy cut.
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DUmmies can solve any problem. Except in real life.
DUmmie solution for all problems: Throw more tax dollars at it.
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A news article I saw earlier had people calling BP and suggesting fixes, such as sticking a big cork in the pipe. Dummies are everywhere. :thatsright:
On further thought, it's a shame that it wasn't a gas line the dummy cut.
Hold a match to it to see if anything is leaking out.
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such as sticking a big cork in the pipe.
:lmao: :rotf:
Another engineering solution from the world-famous DUmp. What gets me is that FlingingPoop won't let the idea go. If it gets shot down, he just keeps comin'.
Usually I hate this guy, but he's been funny lately:
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Sun May-09-10 02:31 AM
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22. Slap it on the side, jiggle the rabbit ears a little.
Turn off the power, remove the cartridge, blow on the contacts, smack it three times against the palm of your hand, return it to the console, press power, resume playing absent gray screen.
Works every time.
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Ah hell...just let Bonnie Fwank suck it dry.
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OK....but ya gotta admit, this is close..........
I'll leave it up for a while.
doc
Definitely worth the sticky...a hall of famer for sure.
Cindie
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I gotta ask. What kind of DUmmy cuts a water pipe without first checking to see if the water is off?
The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.
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The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.
Or, who goes looking for a gas leak with his Zippo. :fuelfire: Found it!
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The same ones who would stick their finger into a live electrical socket.
I've been waiting for a opportunity to use this.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/tucker13/emoticons/shocked.gif)
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Damn. An instant DUmp classic!!
The DUmp is showing just how important it really is, a service to humanity!
YOU ENGINEERS ASSIGNED TO FIX THIS JUST SITTING AROUND WITH YOUR THUMB UP YOUR ASS SHOULD GET OVER TO THE DUMP IMMEDIATELY!!!!
LeftyFingerPop has this figured out!!! <insert stupid sarcasm tag here>
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Cold water with amazing pressure shot out of the pipe and began to flood my basement. , but I tried to hold the water off with my thumbthe pressure was so great, that it misdirected the gusher.
:lmao: Yes dumbass one can't hold back 60lbs of pressure with ones hand! :lmao: Good Lord! It still amazes me these people breathe on their own! :lmao:
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ZERO BONG!
There is always a main cutoff for water. Usually it is located under your sidewalk after your meter.
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ZERO BONG!
There is always a main cutoff for water. Usually it is located under your sidewalk after your meter.
If it's outside of the house, it's the city Governments responsibility to turn it off. [/DU mode off]
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Since this topic is certainly in the running for the "Best of" list, I'm moving it to the Dumping Ground.......
Carry on.....
doc