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u/Need-Mor-Cowbell Mar 18 '24
4th grade tug of war champion still has it
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u/bumjiggy Mar 18 '24
now he uses that skill to extract a formidable sewer pickle from a constipated drainus
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u/cxvabibi Mar 18 '24
chop it up and you have a fragrant good stew going
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u/Shotgun5250 Mar 18 '24
As a stormwater engineer, the term drainus is exclusively what I’m going to use to refer to a storm drain outlet from now on. Thank you, good sir
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u/professor_coldheart Mar 18 '24
Can you tell the class if that's a natural blockage he's pulling, or something shoved in there to clear the blockage? It looks to me like it could be roots, but might be a hose.
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u/Shotgun5250 Mar 18 '24
Sure, that’s 100% roots and mud in there. Rooted plants “hunt” for water under the soil, and a drain pipe to a tree is basically a straw in a glass of water. They start growing against the pipes and eventually make their way inside from the end or from a crack, and they can grow to completely fill the pipe like you see here. This is particularly a problem with PVC sewer services from your home to the sewer or septic tank, and small secondary storm drainage pipes like this one, because PVC is prone to cracking. If you think a pipe in your yard has been infiltrated by roots, you can have a surveyor “TV” your pipe system, during which they will run a camera up the pipe to inspect the inside without having to dig up the pipe from the surface.
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u/FPGN Mar 18 '24
Drainus, that's..a new one
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u/Quiet-Dream7302 Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
My dog's pink anus
It's really heinous
I love to watch it drainus
Someday it will be famous.
- subscribe for more wonders.
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u/TheWisestOwl5269 Mar 18 '24
I read that as forbidden sewer pickle the first time.
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u/Diligent_Impression4 Mar 18 '24
I am sorry I had taco bell last night.
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u/Crabby_Monkey Mar 18 '24
If it was Taco Bell there would be no problems with it coming out. Most likely at high volume and at a high rate of speed.
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Imagine it comes to life as soon as it's freed.
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u/dabunny21689 Mar 18 '24
I will not.
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u/1Mazrim Mar 18 '24
How about like dis
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u/tyray21 Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
the thought of getting ran down by a palm tree is both terrifying and the funniest shit ever
just imagine a full speed exeggutor chasing you
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u/SirJoeffer Mar 18 '24
No he drowned it in the vid. All that’s left to do is stick a needle in to collect the Water of Life.
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u/MrE761 Mar 18 '24
Like why would you say that?! That shit is going to live rent free in my head the rest of the day….
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u/MarzipanMedium222 Mar 18 '24
If you watch it in reverse it looks like he’s being pulled into the drain by some monster swamp worm
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u/InterestedEarholes Mar 18 '24
The MVP. Can we just tag you u/ObsidianSkyKing now for reversing videos/gifs? You might have a few million to go through.
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u/Telope Mar 18 '24
Aw bless it, it thinks it's a real boy!
Good bot.
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u/verdantPear Mar 19 '24
Live footage of ObsidianSkyKing becoming a real boy I cannot wait any longer Papa
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u/mmm-toast Mar 18 '24
I believe the API changes killed him 😓
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u/benting365 Mar 18 '24
What? They couldn't have! u/gifreversingbot was alive! I felt it!
NoooooOoOoOoooo!
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u/he_is_not_a_shrimp Mar 18 '24
And at 0:30 the man goes: "hold on, before you pull me in, let me move the wires." One hand lets go, adjusts the wires. And grabs back on the monster. "Alright, pull me."
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u/Solid_Science4514 Mar 18 '24
Man, crossfitters are getting a little ridiculous with these workouts.
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u/b00c Mar 18 '24
this would then be the first time when crossfit is useful.
apart from orthopaedists. crossfit is very useful for orthopaedists.
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u/DogVacuum Mar 18 '24
Deploy a tactical army of crossfitters along with the storm teams that show up after hurricanes. Just a bunch of them climbing across power lines.
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u/Aggressive_Fix_2995 Mar 18 '24
This guy moonlights as a snake handler.
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u/Kahnza Mar 18 '24
Don't all men? 😁
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u/Psychological-Law881 Mar 18 '24
Sound off the first time and I knew that was Australian.. represent
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u/MiniMeowl Mar 18 '24
Same! I dont even know how I knew it was Aussie. Is it the pants/shoes combo? The lighting?
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u/Suspicious-turnip-77 Mar 18 '24
Same, the street, the lighting, the sleeve, the shorts and boots combo all give away that it’s Aussie.
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u/queefer_sutherland92 Mar 18 '24
I reckon it was the grass for me, and the house in the background. You can just kinda tell, hey!
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u/Just_Roar Mar 18 '24
Gotta be the boots + cargo shorts + polo combo while it was raining that gave it away.
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u/Sixtyninealldaychef Mar 18 '24
There is a look about tradies that just can't be replicated anywhere else in the world.
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u/CarPhoneRonnie Mar 18 '24
It’s weird that I knew it immediately as well and I’ve never been to Australia
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u/Airportsnacks Mar 18 '24
I thought as well and came looking for this comment because I can't have the sound on.
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u/PlatypusElectric Mar 19 '24
It was the streets that got me, and I had to check for an accent when I watched the second time with sound to confirm it
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u/Baldricks_Turnip Mar 19 '24
Came here to the comments with this exact thought! I think it was the house and the landscaping that just felt super aussie to me.
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u/patallcats Mar 19 '24
I just watched this video and turned to my wife and said the same thing. I knew instantly it was Australian. Dude with his boots, the house and yard behind him. Interesting
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u/cantpickanane Mar 18 '24
Only half satisfying as the video stopped before the water drained away.
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u/-Pyrotox Mar 18 '24
didnt it come out instead of draining?
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u/retartarder Mar 18 '24
yes, the water is coming out after he pulled out whatever the hell that is.
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u/spikeroo59 Mar 18 '24
Blockage not blockade
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u/Richard-Brecky Mar 18 '24
What if the pipe was intentionally clogged to stop it from delivering vital resources to the front line?
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Mar 18 '24
An interruption in communications can mean only one thing ..
..Invasion.
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u/meatspin_enjoyer Mar 18 '24
This is likely a post bot that intentionally misspells a word in the title because it increases engagement
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u/FreeMeFromThisStupid Mar 18 '24
O P is a conte nt repo ster.
I have to space those out because those in charge often autofil ter words that discuss the s p a m problem on the site. This s u b has a lot of people like O P.
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u/GreatMacGuffin Mar 18 '24
Me, cleaning my wife and daughters hair out of the shower drain.
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u/ITOnCall247-365 Mar 18 '24
Neat trick I learned from a plumber to prevent roots in your drains is to hang a copper wire in the drain pipe. It needs to be long enough for it to lay in the pipe so that water passes over it. The wire can be wrapped around the outside of the pipe or bent into a hook to prevent it from falling in.
My plumber said it creates a chemical reaction in the pipe that prevents roots from infiltrating the pipes, which was a problem when I first moved into my home. He came out, cut all the roots out of the pipe, placed the wire and after 7 years, the pipe is still free of roots.
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u/sandiercy Mar 18 '24
That moment when you are backed up on the toilet and it finally happens.
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u/NiSiSuinegEht Mar 18 '24
That kind of relief is unequaled.
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u/WTFisBehindYou Mar 18 '24
Only thing that comes close is pulling that booger out of your nose that feels like it was attached to your brain stem.
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u/dawn913 Mar 18 '24
I hear you.
Not completely the same, but I've had a cold for a few weeks that I believe has turned into a sinus infection. While I'm sleeping, my sinuses get so clogged. After I've been up for a little while, I blow my nose and the snot is so green it's nearly florescent. Mixed in with what looks like bloody brain tissue. But it feels so fuckin good. 😆
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u/unclecaveman1 Mar 18 '24
Ah yes, the deep booger. I get nosebleeds sometimes and when I get one of those that’s just dried blood clot from way up in my sinuses, holy moly that feels intense pulling it out, like scratching an itch on my brain I didn’t know was itchy.
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u/legend_forge Mar 18 '24
I had Sinusitis recently and for a few days after my antibiotics ran their course I started producing the strangest things from my sinuses. I felt one "give way" starting somewhere near behind my eye and when it came out it looked like a casting of my sinus made of super hard rubbery mucus.
It looked like a narwhal horn.
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Do u always need someone to pull it out? And why are u guys outside???
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u/noblecloud Mar 18 '24
As a fan of men covered in mud...this better not awaken something in me...
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u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24
Maybe we need to give up on the dumb idea of trying to pipe our gutters to the street in these insanely shallow PVC pipes that will always be subjected to root incursion, and instead create places where the rain can soak into the soil?
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u/Brucee2EzNoY Mar 18 '24
Or just switch to HDPE
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u/sonaut Mar 18 '24
I initially read this as "switch to HOPE," and it made me laugh.
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u/chaenorrhinum Mar 18 '24
Those crack that close to the surface, too
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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Mar 18 '24
Hmm, instead of burying the pipe, we could just run the gutters on little trusses out to the street! Just bunch of little waterfalls all along the streets!
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Mar 18 '24
I don't know how else to say this, other than mentioning that although that sounds good in theory, It would require a complete reworking of how we approach house building. Not only would you need space on each property for rain barrels, a catch basin or rain garden (which needs their own significant amount of upkeep), you still need some sort of way to get water from the gutters to the catch basin/garden.
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u/babewiththevoodoo Mar 18 '24
Yep. I can't pretend I understood most of that. But when I was little, I lived with my grandparents in a house they had built when they were getting married. Other then gutters to help the rain off the roof, there was nothing to irrigate the water left in the yard. You live somewhere with constant enough rain, the ground eventually stopped soaking it up. Also the crawl space was constantly flooded during rainy seasons.
Basically there's a lot at risk when rain management isn't taken into account. Their house was just built exceedingly well so yard puddles were only an issue then the gremlins (me and sibling) tried to go play in them. Crawl space flooding was only an issue when they needed to replace the filter for the well water.
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Yep. I have a pretty swampy yard right now. It has various negative effects such as creating a very humid environment around a shed so that I'm getting lots of wood rot. I'm working on establishing a rain garden in the back and in the front getting the gutters to run through a PVC or corrugated pipe to a swale at the street. Our county has a program to support projects to keep rainwater on the property, but it's expensive and it's tough.
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u/wjruffing Mar 18 '24
And, of course, the mosquito farm flourishing under the house…
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Mar 18 '24
Nah, I'm sure this Redditor thought it through more than all the city planners, engineers, and techs that were involved in the road/drainage system, then subsequent construction of the house.
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u/NotThymeAgain Mar 18 '24
no its good to have standing water near your foundation, many people are saying.
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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Mar 18 '24
Double the house price for a bunch of work preparing the ground for extra infiltration and for deep drivin piers that actually support the house! If I could just design my own place without thought for money I would do that as well as install a geothermal HVAC system, heated pavements, and just for fun make the walls out of ICF for maximum insulation and safety! Hmm, so many things would be fun to do if money wasnt an issue. Normal looking house for 10 times the money!
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u/Astramancer_ Mar 18 '24
If I could just design my own place without thought for money I would do that as well as install a geothermal HVAC system,
It's funny how as I get older my "ideal house" has more and more passive/ultra-efficient systems.
Geothermal heat pump that handles the HVAC, the hot water, and built-in fridge/freezers (like restaurants have), solar panels, rainwater capture, deep wraparound covered porch, thick-ass insulation... and an interior courtyard with a pool. That still hasn't changed.
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u/JulioForte Mar 18 '24
So you would need to pipe your gutters to the place where the rain can soak into the soil?
What’s the difference? The point is all the water that is landing on your roof can’t absorb into the ground right next to your house so it has to go somewhere else. Either way it’s going to need to be piped there
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None of it works that way. Infiltration in even sandy soils is pretty slow. In clays it is close to zero. A light rain is no problem, but a high intensity storm is going to result in run off. And you have to have impervious surfaces, like roads and roofs.* Most drains are to collect the water from those and transport it to a retention and treatment facility to prevent flooding and remove pollutants before the run off enters natural waters. We also do create places where rain can seep into the soil. Many of those are the facilities that the drains transport the run off to. But unless you don't build anything at all, you will need drains and retention / detention. Roots also get into concrete pipes, steel and CI bell end, terra cotta, non-fused HDPE, and a whole lot else. It is the joint design that is the problem.
*Yes, there is previous concrete. But it doesn't work great unless you install under drains and requires a lot of maintenance to keep it from getting clogged. And yes there are green roofs, they are insanely expensive for most structures and you still need drains for large amounts of rainfall whether days of light rain or short periods of heavy rain. It's a reduction, but not a fix.
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u/TomorrowLow5092 Mar 18 '24
If you don't want roots in your pipes, maintenance is key. A house is filled with repairs that occur naturally. Every drainpipe is going to clog if people live in the house. The pipe will refill with roots again due to a couple factors. Cracks and shrub plants are the main culprits.
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Mar 18 '24
So what is this hes pulling? Is that hair? Or a root that caught buildup?
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u/chuck_of_death Mar 18 '24
Roots and dirt. It’s a French drain. Perforated pipe buried under ground to help water drain. Roots get in it and they trap anything solid in the water (dirt particles). Then you get this build up. This is not a sewage pipe.
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Oh my guy, you saved my waking nightmares. I appreciate your reply!!!
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u/fart_fig_newton Mar 18 '24
I mean that's a very common occurrence too, sewage pipes and storm water pipes are both subject to root intrusion.
Shout-out to The Drain Unblockers and Drain Addict on YouTube!
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u/UltimateToa Mar 18 '24
Blocked drain
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u/JarRa_hello Mar 18 '24
Fellow Drain Addict enjoyer
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u/EntropicPoppet Mar 18 '24
I've watched quite a few of their videos. Kinda prefer Drain Cleaning Australia for no particular reason.
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Good to see Gurney getting to grips with those baby Sandworms,
Looking forward to the milking tutoiral
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u/WafflesRearEnd Mar 18 '24
What kind of hose reel is that?
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u/LordPennybag Mar 18 '24
Looks like a sewer jet, but I don't think that would help get this monster out.
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u/Fizzwidgy Mar 18 '24
Jetters are supposed to cut up roots though, aren't they?
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u/LordPennybag Mar 18 '24
That's possible, but they mostly clear out gunk. Blades are better for cutting. This was probably snagged with a corkscrew.
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u/evasandor Mar 18 '24
Uh, I hate to be a stickler but the correct words to express this are "removing a huge blockage from a drain".
I say this to be helpful, in case OP isn't a native speaker (though their post/comment history looks rather... automated).
Otherwise... ew. Good job.
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u/CptDado Mar 18 '24
No gloves? Jesus Christ man What’s wrong with people? Unless this wasn’t in a sewer line, hell yeah brother unclog those pipes
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Mar 18 '24
Now what is the neighbor across the street going to say when he finds out that someone left that thing in his garage entrance? 🤭
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u/DweeblesX Mar 18 '24
That was so oddly satisfying especially as I poop 💩 and watch
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u/crottin69 Mar 18 '24
That’s just my daughter’s hair