Hydrant Hook-up - I need your help.

[Matthew Norman]

I need to setup my trailer and water tank to have an air gape to be able to connect to a hydrant hose.

They are requiring that it has an air gape. I have a pretty good idea what I need to do but I'm not sure how to stabilize the pvc piping. If anyone has pictures it would help me out a ton. Thanks fellas!! and go Broncos!! :happydance:

 

[Scott Stone]

Conduit strapping from the electrical department. It wraps right around the plumbing and holds the pipe in place. You really just need two straps, usually.

 

[Tony R]

You Denver fans are pretty hardcore!

 

[Russ Johnson]

Post a pic of your tank, let's see what we've got to work with.

 

[Matthew Norman]

Here is what I came up with.

 

[Matthew Norman]

I plugged up the legs with rubber stoppers.

 

[810f250]

Looks good, if you want you could add another support on the tank before the last elbow

 

[Matthew Norman]

Any ideas on how I could do that Nigel? I think it would be a little more stable doing that as well.

 

[810f250]

threaded pipe hanger, but you would be using it upside down and dill a hole in top edge of tank with a nut & washer on top and nut & washer below.

 

[offdutyfireman]

Just curious. Are you having to shuttle water in somewhere? We work off of hydrants 90% of the time when doing commercial but we just use garden hoses hooked to the hydrant backflow meter. Looks like with that set up you would have to quit working to go to the hydrant to fill up.

 

[Lou Zehnder]

Ask Guy I believe he has a setup like that if he hasn't sold it.......

 

[Christopher]

That is not a bad design.

You could put a similar support from the ground up on the other side of the tank and connect it with a "T" on the first side of the tank crossing over the tank and have another "T" right over the tank opening with an elbow going down but not inside the tank so when you want to cover the tank with the lid you can. If you have the crossover high enough so the "T" and elbow is just above the lid of the tank then you will not need additional support as the crossover will have support from both sides of the tank.

That was very creative, congratulations.

 

[Scott Stone]

It looks cool. There is extra expense in the T's. I need to get a picture of one of mine. I have five 90 Elbows and it is S shaped, sort of.

 

[Tony Shelton]

Matt, that looks great man! I don't think you need more support. That pipe is pretty sturdy.

 

[AspenPW]

Looks good Matt.

Question for everyone. Why not go to the 4 inch hose instead of the 2 inch? We have both. Just curious.

 

[Clear Shine]

I think the 4 inch would be over kill....We have a 2 in and I timed it the last time we filled our 535 gallon tank....best time I got was 1 min 47 sec from empty to full.....plus, thats alot of flow and water and 4 inch would be alot more expensive to make and build....

 

[Kory]

Nice build Matt, we are a little redneck here in the south we just put the hose in the top of the tank and hold on to it.

 

[AspenPW]

Kory,
Thats what we did for years.

Jeremy,
I can understand what you are saying. We have all the connections to go from 4 inch to 2 inch. I will say I have never timed it. We had a trailer with a 1000 gallon tank on it and that was the one we mainly used the 4 inch hose to fill. Otherwise we used the 2 inch.

 

[Doug Rucker]

Nice build Matt, we are a little redneck here in the south we just put the hose in the top of the tank and hold on to it.

A cinder block might hold it down, maybe 2

 

[Clear Shine]

A cinder block might hold it down, maybe 2

MAYBE being the key word.....maybe it might hold it down, maybe it may lift the cinder block and hurl it at 120 mph towards your head....it's just maybe either way. Not a gambling man myself, so I'll take making a holder.