Understanding Hydrant Depth and Frost Line

footer right here so it's really really long our frost line here is about 18 inches typically we'll bury something like this up to about 20 inches but whatever floats your boat so depending on where you live if you live up in wyoming or if you live way up north somewhere new hampshire or something like that you may have a five or a six footer is that right so this will be buried and when you shut the water off the water falls back down through here and goes through a weep hole and we'll show you that weep hole in the cutaway and we'll show you how all this works it's really really simple and really pretty cool setup it is they're awesome what we have here today is a woodford brass yard hydrant this actually is a variable flow yard hydrant as you can see it says right there on it and let's just start with the spout okay this spout it actually has a garden hose fitting to it that you can take off and you could hard pipe it if you really wanted to or if this got nicked or banged up it's a quick replacement that