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Remove Old Hydrant Head

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Can I Replace The Head Of A Yard Hydrant? Yes You Can!

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What happens here

Place one large pipe wrench on the riser pipe below the hydrant head to act as a backup, preventing the pipe from twisting. Place a second pipe wrench on the base of the hydrant head. Turn the second wrench counter-clockwise to unscrew the head. If the head is severely stuck, attach shackles to the wrench handles and use a come-along (chain hoist) to apply steady, strong force to break the connection free. Once loosened, you can finish unscrewing it by hand or with the wrenches.

Goal: Unscrew and remove the old head

Tools and materials

  • Come-along — Applying mechanical leverage to break free a stuck hydrant head
  • Pipe Wrench Rigid — Gripping and turning the hydrant head and riser pipe
  • Shackles — Connecting the come-along to the handles of the pipe wrenches

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Yeah, we're going to say that that's enough. I mean, it's up more than it was. We got a couple of 18-inch pipe ranches here. I put shackles on the end of ours a lot of times. Why is this? This is going to make this super easy and you don't have to really do a lot of gripping and prying on this yourself. This is certainly an awkward angle for all this, right? Okay, this one right here and then we just take our combo long here and we will get plugged in right there. Here's that started and all we're going to do is slowly just get that moving until that pops off, right? So this is all that work without having to really grip onto it. It looks like it popped off fairly easy. So we probably don't have to do this again, but if you did have to repeat it well, then you just stretch them back out and just do it again. Yeah, grab. Yep, you can grab right there. I just say I bet that will pop it off. Okay, just always make sure you use a backup wrench. Yep. Okay, so we've got this head right here. All we need to do is detach this and you can see

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