There was an overflowed manhole cover down the street from me. The town came out, pumped it out and left. Then two stout guys not affliated with the town went into the manuhole with big 3' monkey wrenches. They emerged about a half hour later with a piece of corroded something that looked like a muffler.... threw it in the back of the truck and took off.

what the heck was broke?

WE MIGHT be able to tell you IF we had some pictures of what they removed.

fair enough.... no pictures though.

I guess what I am getting at is that I was under the assumption that sewers didn't have serviceable parts that a lone guy could fix... figured instead roads get opened etc. These dudes were wearing shorts and tshirts too and were very nonchalant about the whole thing...

The piece they removed, looked to have ID of no more than 2" maybe 3". Maybe 40 or 50 pounds by the way they were dragging it to the truck. Small for what I would think was "under the road"!!!



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Since they pumped it out, I would be more inclined to believe that it was a telecommunications company and it wasn't plumbing at all.

that's what i thought as well.

Found buried treasure left by Al Capone in the man holes.

The "muffler" looking thing is called a copper splice case.

It's used to seal up the joints between the huge telco cables. The old copper analog lines not the fiber optic ones.

(I'm a telecommunications engineer)