Farms: How-To Repair An Outside Yard Hydrant

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1. There is an easier way to loosen the hydrant from the pipe with the wrenches. Move your lower wrench right up under the bottom of the hydrant and position the handles of both wrenches close together so that you can get both of your hands on them and squeeze. Keeping your wrenches a foot apart like that makes it a lot harder on you than necessary.
2. Oh wow!!! Thank you!!!! I have 2 leaking and I'm disabled but I think with this I can hopefully find someone to help me get this done!
3. I wish there was a video on repairing an outdoor pipe that broke because someone ran over the faucet with their car.
4. This video saved me a lot of time and effort. Thanks
5. I have Campbell E1 blue units that failed at three years-I don't recommend Campbell- the rubber bullet becomes dislodged and stuck underground-- requiring digging-the bronze bore below is a reducer from 1" to 3/4" and is awfully tight, even with the silicon grease they recommend. designed to fail-  all these hydrants are stiff to operate and arcane in design--the only ones I see working are made in iowa--red.
6. I didn't even think of replacement parts thank you.
7. Learn to use your wrenches
   
8. mine leaks out drain hole in on position, what's up with that
9. Thank you for this great video! Glad you could use your indoor hydrant so we didn't have to see you freezing and swearing out in 10 degrees!
10. Roy...I just wanted to thank you...I was faced with similar situation this morning and your video was a savior. Thanks again
    Chris
11. Great video, but just a note. Before you unscrew the head off the hydrant make sure when you raise and lower the handle the brass stem that goes down into the ground is moving. I've got the same hydrant, same problem, and the round block that goes over the stem, the piece that has the set screw in it for adjustment, mine broke in half. I had about a 1/2" stream of water and when I raised the handle it went to full stream. With that piece being broke the line pressure just pushed the stem wide open. I cut the water off, removed the broke piece and handle, pushed the stem back down and laid a small flat wrench on top of the stem and zip tied it to the hydrant head so I could cut the water back on. Hydrant had a lifetime warranty so I sent broke piece back. If any one feels like I have walked on Room4MoreEnterprises thread, I apologize. I just wanted
     to let you know of another problem that might exist.
12. Roy is the car in the back ground an Austin Bantam? If so do you have any videos on it? Thanks for this video it was a great help.
13. great video. thanks from the farm.
14. Great video!  But can you show us some of your cars in the back ground? 
15. Thank you! I had no idea how these things work and mine broke last night. Off to the store for me.
16. Thanks for the video. Heat was the trick for breaking my 20 year old Clayton Mark loose. I used a propane torch and it worked fine, just took a little while.
17. Very Helpful! Thank you for posting! My problem is the opposite of yours. When I tried to turn mine on it broke somewhere down in the pipe. I can see that I will have to dig mine up to do a proper repair. I built a wooden box around mine and filled it with gravel. Fortunately I put it together with screws instead of nails.  Your video gives me an idea of the inner workings. I might take it apart from above just to see exactly where that long rod broke.
18. Thank you for this useful video.
19. thanks roy I will try this, but I might have to cut my fence post off to fix mine. thanks again, very helpful
20. I have a hydrant that busted off right at the top.  Of course, it is 18 degrees outside.  Luckily, I have a second hydrant about 100 feet away.  I don't have a torch and the hydrant has to be 30+ years old.  It is going to be fun getting it off.
    
    Thank you for the video.  Very informative and reassuring that such things can be fixed yourself.