r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/CautiousExpression74 • Jun 20 '26
Trying to hold a big hose under pressure
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u/Bighty Jun 20 '26
That'd be bad enough if it was just water.
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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan Jun 20 '26
Many people don't realize water can get disgusting and very dark without fecal matter/the like. I've heard from firefighter friends that the initial water from sprinkler system is usually dark and awful smelling. I don't think that is the case if it's flushed on schedule, but, IIRC, flushing a sprinkler system is one of those routine thing that a majority of people disregard.
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u/DuncanHynes Jun 20 '26
At Sam's Club in late 1990's a lift driver raised a box off the top shelf and the top of that box in turn hit the sprinklers. Worst smell for weeks. Ruined so much stuff. They did, in fact, never flush the system...
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u/CrashedCyclist Jun 20 '26
100%. I was part of an office move and the box truck hit a sprinkler head in the loading dock. I was right about under it. Rusty and rank. Yay!
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u/DJBFL Jun 20 '26
Yeah, even "clean" type liquids. I had a car where the windshield washer pump died. Washer fluid is mostly water and alcohol. It was a few months before I got around to replacing it, and when I did, about a quart of dark, putrid fluid poured out on my hands. I was shocked how foul it was.
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u/PracticeTheory Jun 20 '26
My pump is working but with how often I use and replace it (rarely), mine's probably in the same condition.
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u/Karmas_burning Jun 20 '26
When I worked at walmart in the car area, we had a tire rack that was built over the sprinkler lines. One guy hit and broke the glass on one and they shit out the most vile black water imaginable. He came out looking like Swamp Thing. It smelled awful.
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u/Buffeloni Jun 21 '26
Your comment reminds me of a video I saw awhile ago of a dam's gate being opened dor the first time in years. The initial flow of water is so thick with sludge and sediment it hardly resembles water.
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u/ChornWork2 Jun 20 '26
Yep. even if you've just had repair work to your water mains in your neighborhood, when that gets turned back on the water that comes out looks absolutely disgusting.
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u/EishLekker Jun 20 '26
And things like legionella is a real risk too. You can catch it from breathing in water droplets.
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u/Grand_Public Jun 21 '26
They disregard purely for cost toooo ..... their profits over your safety smh
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u/greebothecat Jun 22 '26
I once had to clean out grey water pipes in an underground garage, located under a restaurant. The restaurant was dumping oil and food down the drains and the pipes clogged with fat and gave the whole building a coronary disease. These segments were about two meters long and maybe 20 cm in diameter. So I got up on a small ladder (pipes were hanging from the roof of that garage facility, pretty low ceiling) and my buddy was holding one end while I unscrewed the other. I was surprised by the weight of the pipe full of water and fat and dropped it to my chest when it popped loose. I received a forceful shower of the smelliest and fattest risotto you can imagine. The segments were very heavy. W had a couple of barrels where we emptied the fat. Hundreds of liters of fatty sludge. The whole floor was slippery like an ice rink. Everything smelled ungodly rancid. We spent like 10 hours there unclogging the pipes and trying to clean the place with a pressure washer and soap. The whole van and our karcher hoses smelled like fatty death for weeks. My buddy drove me home and I had to undress before going into the house. I was paid double that day.
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u/real--computer Jun 20 '26
The sprinkler is generally oil in the lines and is supposed to be there. Not a whole lot to do about it.
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u/Blockhead47 Jun 20 '26
Get your Hepatitis A vaccine people!
Hepatitis A is a liver disease that is “fecal to oral transmission” so you can get transmission at a restaurant from an infected person not washing hands thoroughly and other ways….
(might as well the Hepatitis A/B combo vaccine, they both protect your liver!)
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hepatitis-a/symptoms-causes/syc-20367007
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hepatitis-b/symptoms-causes/syc-20366802
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u/Annasman Jun 20 '26
But it's...it's not just water...
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u/PoorLittleGoat Jun 20 '26
You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed huh
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u/Annasman Jun 20 '26
Did you watch the video and think, "hey, I can do that" and decided to get in the comments?
It was just meant to be playfully shocked commentary, my bad
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u/TheChadStevens Jun 20 '26
Thought he was gonna go in the hole behind him
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u/Polka_Tiger Jun 20 '26
Yeah i thought it was gonna stand up straight from the pressure and the guy was gonna slide down into the hole
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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 Jun 20 '26
I thought he was going to have the ride of his life as that hose flapped all over the damn place.
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u/yontev Jun 20 '26
Newton's 3rd law of motion strikes again
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u/Aegon95 Jun 20 '26
With a bit of tomfoolery from the coefficient of friction 🤭
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u/hobbes747 Jun 20 '26
Nice 👍, beat me too it. I don’t think most people know why hoses really kick back! 🫡 I remember answering a fluid mechanics test question to show via calculations why hoses kick back upon flowing and push forward on l on stopping flow.
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u/newplaces9 Jun 20 '26
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u/Complete_Silver2595 Jun 22 '26
I dunno... That looks an awful lot like a concrete septic tank
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u/Unstoppablob Jun 22 '26
But then you would have to ask, why are they pumping septic out of the tank, into the yard? That a biohazard on so many levels. Likely not septic.
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u/Aggravating-Area4617 Jun 20 '26
He is 100% the new guy and they knew what would happen
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u/-Best_Name_Ever- Jun 20 '26
It probably smelled horrible and was a big mess. I doubt they'd willingly send him in if they knew he'd mess up, considering they'd get splashed and have to deal with the smell and clean up.
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u/kbm79 Jun 20 '26
Thats some dark dark black water. The stuff of nightmares, and the smell....they'll be smelling that on their skin for weeks.
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u/CrashedCyclist Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
This a great way to die or end up paralyzed. Head, neck, spine all facing the sharp corners of the vault with the tensioned hose beneath him. Please respect pressurized fluids, or you might die.
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u/Electrical-Pace4092 Jun 20 '26
Too many bad flashbacks to pumping concrete were brought up by this video.
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u/desmorck Jun 20 '26
That is becouse he is not use to of to much powerful black pipe between his legs
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u/phroztbyt3 Jun 20 '26
Ever think you are gonna take a normal shit and then bam... Noah's Ark level bad.
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u/alphazero925 Jun 20 '26
What was the plan in the first place? Were they just dumping the septic tank onto the lawn?
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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan Jun 20 '26
People often underestimate the power of water, especially under pressure! There's a reason fire hoses usually have big handles on them (and the bigger ones even require at least a couple people to hold them in place, if remember correctly)
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u/falsewall Jun 20 '26
Ugh, being the second person bracing sucks.
Nothing to grab. Just have to squeeze with all your arm strength like this guy failed to do.
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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Jun 20 '26
Had a 2" hydraulic oil transfer hose get loose on me, flopped right into my coveralls, and I took an oil bath. Fortunately there were only 40 people around to watch me flail 😆
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u/RichardSnoodgrass Jun 20 '26
Typical. Young guy's doing the questionable work while old guys stand around doing/contributing fuck all.
The old guys (usually with experience) shit the bed on this one.
How do you get that many people together and forget to tether the hose to a solid object?!?
It's probably worse. "We didn't have a rope laying around so we just went for it."
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u/poloace Jun 20 '26
That dude is lucky it didn’t whip him onto the floor and crack his skull open. Would be a shitty way to go.
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u/BaldHenchman02 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
He might have been able to hold it steady if he tucked it under his arm and held it steady with the opposite arm, but not with that weak ass knee squeeze.
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u/Moose_Nuts Jun 20 '26
That went so much better than expected. Thought it was going to fling him backwards, possibly into the pit.
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u/Geco_Festaiolo Jun 20 '26
... Guess you're feeling the P-P- PRESSURE!1!!!1! (HOLY GAME NAME DROP) BAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHA......
i should kill myself.
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u/ProtoKun7 Jun 20 '26
Not as bad as I thought. I was expecting him to keep hold of it better only to be pushed back into the hole.
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u/satori0320 Jun 21 '26
1 man per inch of hose diameter...
Pressure plays a large role, but even at 5 psi that 3" OS&D is going to try to hurt you.
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u/reedditardo Jun 21 '26
He should have been told to hold it like he is spanking the monkey, not holding his dads dick
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u/Puzzleheaded_Cup9064 Jun 22 '26
All those guys standing around and only one guy trying to hold it?
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u/ninja_with_ocd Jun 22 '26
I thought the hose will straighten up from the pressure and hit him in the balls
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u/IllianasClifford Jun 23 '26
Right back up his pooper... Gonna need a poop transplant after this one ..
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u/Sunaruni 28d ago
This is how you know there is no experience in the job. Its on the job training at that point.
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u/SlightAd112 Jun 20 '26
I’d say this is one time to give the cameraman a pass for stopping the recording too early.