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:shrug: What does a broken water main and two Mercury dimes have in common? :shrug:

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khouse

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Answer - Both were found the same day. Story - Me and Bill planned a hunt this morning. I was planning to meet him at 10am. When I pulled out of my driveway I noticed my water service had broken and water was coming down the drive. The first thing that came to mind was "Oh crap. I'm not hunting today!!!" Not " Oh I have a water break and my poor family may be out of water" LOL. I quickly called my escavator friend to dig it up for me. He said he would be right there. I then called Bill and told him I may not make it to hunt. Once excavated I went and got my parts. I repaired it by 12 noon and was ready to hunt. Bill thought he wouldn't see today but I showed up for the hunt right at 1pm. (1 hour drive) He was already digging targets and had a pocket full. I quickly went to beeping and was going to film any silver digs. Well I dug and filmed a clad dime at maybe 4 inches. I thought it was going to be silver? So the next hit I got was a 12-43 at maybe 2 inches deep on the meter. So I figured it was a clad dime. It was a Mercury at 2 inches! I didn't film it! I did call Bill over to see it in it's natural habitat. Then after about 6 more zincs I get a 17-43/44 hit that read 6 inches. I thought it was an edge beep on iron because Quickmask shown iron was there also. So I left the camera in my pocket. Well you know what happened - another Mercury at 7 inches! I hunted for about 3.5 hours and snagged my best finds in the first 30 minutes.
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wow...pretty eventful day...

Nice job on the mercs! Gotta love that silver!


-firewxman
 
Ugh not quick couplers..... They do fail. You can always use 2 glue in couplers and take out the center ridge and put in a foot long section of pipe.
 
A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do

Good for you for for taking care of the water crisis and getting out there and finding Silver
 
You should have posed with the detector by that hold and taken a pic! :crylol:

Well, glad things turned out well though and congrats on the silver.
EMS
 
Nothing gets in the way of a good hunt-- snow, sleet, rain, or a broken water line. I would have done the same thing.
 
burlbark said:
Ugh not quick couplers..... They do fail. You can always use 2 glue in couplers and take out the center ridge and put in a foot long section of pipe.
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My water service is 1/4 mile long. That's why it's 2 inches. The biggest problem is that originally they didn't put in any expantion joints or used gasketed pipe. Now when there's a change in weather the contraction "pop" the couplings. So I have to repair the pipe with something that gives. I was using some telescoping connectors but had to replace those because they leaked. I hope to replace the whole line this summer and either go to gasketed pressure pipe or PEX. If I find enough silver that is! LOL.....
 
khouse said:
burlbark said:
Ugh not quick couplers..... They do fail. You can always use 2 glue in couplers and take out the center ridge and put in a foot long section of pipe.
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My water service is 1/4 mile long. That's why it's 2 inches. The biggest problem is that originally they didn't put in any expantion joints or used gasketed pipe. Now when there's a change in weather the contraction "pop" the couplings. So I have to repair the pipe with something that gives. I was using some telescoping connectors but had to replace those because they leaked. I hope to replace the whole line this summer and either go to gasketed pressure pipe or PEX. If I find enough silver that is! LOL.....
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It looks plenty deep enough to protect it from freezing and the ground doesnt look frozen. Are you sure you are not getting water hammer action? With that long of a run water can build up a tremendous amount of energy and they do make a device that goes in line with a bladder that disipates that energy. I did a little work at the local golf coarse with these systems. 5" line dropping hundreds of feet can really blow out with some gusto....
 
I guess it's possible? But every leak I've had has been exactly as in the picture. The coupling pops right through the middle and leave a 1/4 inch gap. So it seems there was some contractions going on? :minelab:
 
The water hammer effect is basically pulling your pipes apart. When the water flow is shut off quickly the moving water has no where to go and basicaly hammers into the end of the line. Or into the first 90 degree turn. Basically more water in the pipe than there is room for. My guess is khouse is correct. Idigid.
 
Least your day got better! Sounds like you should leave camera more often with silver like that! Lol! You can always take pics after!
 
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