Saw this going to a friend’s house- they bagged the fire hydrants….one thought was snow; but this is the first year apparently. And snow has been a mild issue this year compared to most.
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Isn’t that what paint’s for? Seems like a lot of unnecessary plastic trash.
Cheaper to do bags than re-paint off-schedule. Usually cities have a schedule for maintenance, and the bag, in this case, is preventative for rust without being off-schedule for painting.
Paint gets scratches, especially where things turn and rub against each other. You don’t want the turning bits becoming seized and finding out at the worst time
Apparently, the same gets in and corrosion starts. The second article mentions a city that stopped doing it.
hmm thanks for that.
To maintain freshness
Duh. No one likes a soggy, limp hydrant.
Possibly out of service. There are dedicated high visibility bags for this purpose but if whoever did this didn’t have one, this looks like a stopgap to help make it more obvious.
It is amazing how many hyadrants I’ve suddenly noticed on the drive back. (and there were several new-looking ones that weren’t bagged. Or maybe the bag came off. Apparently it happened in the fall.)
For safe hydrant sex. Duhhh
Firefighter here:
They’re made from cast iron that likes to rust and the only thing protecting them is the Paint on them.
My guess is that the paint got scratched and they’re bagging it up until they can repaint it.
Autoerotic asphyxiation.
I’ve never heard of this, & I’m Canadian.
I imagine out east, in the Maritimes, they’d have to put marker-poles on the things, because they sometimes get 5’ of snow in a single onslaught, but …
… it simply isn’t something I’d ever heard-of.
Our fire-departments deal with the snow & ice every ( normal, not now ) winter.
shrug
Isn’t the street that concrete area from where the picture was taken? So if a snow plough comes to remove the snow, it essentially would burry the hydrant.
My guess is to keep water from getting into the threads and freezing them shut.
if that were a problem, honestly, hydrants wouldn’t have lasted a freeze/thaw cycle. Water expands and breaks shit (potholes for example,) it might get frozen and harder to open, but they have massively huge hydrant wrenches for a reason. (and it ain’t compensating for their tiny hose…) (that’s what the big hose is for.)
The identify the troublemakers in your neighborhood.
You’ve been added to a list.
I’m on soooo many lists.
one more won’t hurt.
That’s another list, buddy
Evidence.
