Before the hard freeze came, I set up a homemade aeration system in my pond. I used a weeping watering hose coiled in a loop, nylon tied to a brick and connected it with 50 feet of 1/4" air line. The compressor is located in my well house about 10 feet from the pond. The line is barried about 6 inches below the surface until it enters the pond. The system worked great until we had a warm spell a couple of days ago. I didn't weight the line so it has loops that got frozen in the surface ice.
Upon my daily inspection I found no surface disturbance so I thought the compressor had gone bad and swichted it out with another, which worked for about 3 minutes then stopped. I then reinstalled the original compressor and it worked, after a very slow start making bubbles, and then the bubbling stopped completely and you could hear the compressor straining, obvisouly a block age.
Any suggestions on how to unblock the ice from the airline?
Last edited by scruffy_fish; 12/26/09 11:45 AM.
