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its guys like this that keep me busy on service calls
Warehouse Sprinkler Accident Video
" ohh, i cracked a fitting. i know, ill pull on it. that will make it better."
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Now I know why they say don't stand on the top of the ladder :eek:
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wow, I guess we know who isnt getting employee of the year award now.
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What if I rip it off, will the water stop?
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That was F---ing HILARIOUS.... I've seen a ESFR head go off at close range, it isn't fun. Luckily, I haven't had the experience of a broken main YET...
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Too bad it wasnt an old building... That stank ass old funky water would have tought him a lesson
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It don't take long for that water to take on the funk.... I know the older systems are worse, but the new ones aren't a whole lot better. I got a facefull of sprinkler water once. :puke:
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Ewwwww! Dude, some guy at my job about 7 years ago busted off a head that was at the end of a long run off an old ass riser... The water smelled like dead skunk ass and was the oddest rust color id ever seen. so bad
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A couple months ago someone at my work was rolling out a cart of chips and busted off a sprinkler head. I wasn't there, but the next day there was still puddles of water in some spots and black spots all over the walls from the water. I heard it didn't even look like water coming out it was so black.
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Sprink, Isn't this why most places are going to dry systems? So, water doesn't sit in the runs?
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no, dry systems are used for exposure to cold climates. be it out side or in freezers. some places that have a lot invested in computers use whats called a pre-action system, where 2 things have to happen in order to set the valve off (smoke detector, "magic" wire, fusing a head, or they have a "huffer" system connected to it). huffers can "smell" a wire going bad and arm the valve.
dry systems are worse for corrosion. they have to be trip tested once a year then drained, but some water always stays in the pipe and that mixed with the air will rust it faster. anyways now im rambling.
ng, not all warehouses use esfr. he hit the under door pipe and cracked a thread, then tried to pull it back into place and ripped it all the way off.
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thenewguy821 Wrote:It don't take long for that water to take on the funk.... I know the older systems are worse, but the new ones aren't a whole lot better. I got a facefull of sprinkler water once. :puke: ohh grass hopper. wait till the day comes (and it will) that you go home looking like Al Jolson.
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NOT looking forward to that....
I know not all heads in a warehouse are ESFR. That is the only head I've seen blow. From the spray on the video, I knew it wasn't ESFR, way too small of a spray.
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so I take it Newguy is doing fire sprinkler work now?
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yup. he is an apprentice. my cuz just took his test, so he is a journeyman now. chris has only got 4 more years to go. alute:
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Tex Wrote:so I take it Newguy is doing fire sprinkler work now?
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