Detailed Breakdown of Woodford Hydrant Components

banged up it's a quick replacement that very nice feature we go here to the variable flow feature which is this adjustment lever right here and you can minimize how high you open this okay so it's nice say your kids are wanting to play in the water well maybe you don't want it full bore maybe you're watering your chickens or you're doing a drip line to your garden this could work for that really easy it would be very nice so here we go to the way to adjust the linkage these particular movements right here can be adjusted by these set screws and removing this nut this can actually be twisted up this right here can be up or down if the linkage is off we'll talk about that at some other point i will be making a video and explaining a lot more about this stuff next we're going to go to the packing nut this packing nut right here is can be easily adjusted if water is coming out of here and this is the packing this is a graphite packing that will allow it will compress whenever you tighten this down and it will allow water to stop we go here to a solid brass body as we start out and this right here is actually going to connect down over to here to a galvanized shaft inside the outside of this is also galvanized and it's going to be really long like josh just showed you a couple minutes ago so then we get down here to this bronze valve body this is going to be in the ground this is going to have a plunger in it and it's going to have a weep hole on it what we're looking at with this plunger this is a lot of rubber this can easily be replaced by removing the head