Valve Body, Plunger, Weep Hole, and Drainage

easily be replaced by removing the head at some point if you needed to but what we're looking at is when the flow stops water will come out from the top and it'll come out this weep hole and now when we open this up you can see there is a little bit of a gap down there and there also is this piece of the valve body right here what water is going to go around that it's going to go up in here and it's going to come out here now what you're looking for in a good yard hydrant when this shuts and clicks is the snap right up here on this so when you open that full blast and you come down you're gonna feel some tension there's about three inches between here which is what you want and you wanna hear that little clank at the end that's the snap that's what's going to allow this to actually just close and seal off now water falls out of this falls back down the pipe correct yes and then this is buried in the ground below the frost line so therefore correct it is buried in the and then water is going to come out we're going to have a leech field with maybe about half inch rock and you want to go i like to go about a foot below this valve as well that way when all this water does come out it has some place to go and disperse especially if you're using it multiple times right you're going to have some ground saturation if you had this filled in you're going to have problems awesome so the down and dirty is water comes up through here when we open the valve is that correct yep okay and then water comes out right through here to your water hose okay when we shut it off go ahead and shut it off shut it off that drives this shaft all the way down through here and drives this guy all the way down and then the water falls out of this pipe and thus keeps everything below the frost line and you don't have a frozen hydrant