Sounds like an episode from the Red Green Show. LOL
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of clifford Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] cleaning clogged drains Dear List Members: I posted a piece a while back concerning how not to unclog a drain, but we have had a few new members to sign up since, so I will repeat it. This is a true story that occurred at the Tellico Ranger station of the U. S. Forest Service near my home town of Tellico Plains Tennessee. The ranger for the district was furnished with a home adjacent to the ranger station and it developed a sewer drain problem, so a couple of the employees were summoned to dig up the line between the house and the septic tank, as all other methods to unclog it had failed. These two fellows had just dug down to the pipe when one, Joe Floyd, arrives on scene. He observes the situation and took control of the situation. He tells the two fellows with the shovels to stand back and he will fix the problem. He pulls the truck he was driving up near the dig and pulls out the air hose from the diesel compressor which is mounted on the trailer behind the truck and cranks the diesel engine. He goes over to the dig and manages to peck a round whole in the clay pipe and inserted the end of the air hose, after which he tamped some material around the connection to make it air tight. He then turned on the compressor and gave the engine full power. The first sign of trouble came when the ranger's wife came out of the house screaming at the crew assembled. It seems that the blockage had been cleared alright, and was plastered all over the bathroom inside the house along with pieces of the now shattered commode. The ranger's wife was a city girl and not having been accustomed to roughing it, she packed up and went home to her parents in the city for more than a month. Guess who was assigned the task of cleaning up the ranger's house! Joe Floyd was one of the most colorful fellows this part of the country has ever witnessed, and it was a good thing the Forest Service folks had a humorous side back in those days, or he would have been unemployed. The reason for this post is to discourage any use of high pressure air to unclog drain lines at least when applied outside the home. Yours Truly, Clifford Wilson __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4740 (20100103) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
