...so, when I found a pile of 6" PVC pipe on Ebay and bought it for the dam drain, I knew I was gonna have alot of it left over. I also knew that if I am gonna put in a dry hydrant, now is the time. The tough part is done.
We used 45 degree fittings to make the uphill bend. This was recommended from a few different articles I read on dry hydrants. The thought process is that if there is difficulty in connecting to the hydrant fitting (frozen, stripped, wrong size or fitting, whatever), the pipe can be hacked off behind the fitting and a suction hose can be slipped into the balance of the pipe, slipping past the 45's and into the static water level.
The horizontal run is 100 ft and the uphill at 45 degrees is a 20 footer, much of which will get trimmed back when I get to the final 45 degree elbow and terminal fitting.
The equipment is parked on the building site; there is still about 4 more feet of fill going in this area. To the far right, between the temporary pile of rocks and the pipe, is the boat launch road. The draw end of the pipe enters the pond off the front of the building site. This lands the dry hydrant directly between the boat launch and the building site.
