Does this look like a gas line to ya'll?

[Agentbolt]

Any chance you have hydro to any out bulldogs? Shed etc? looks like the wires are just leading underground to run below the surface to another location.

We have a pool, and a shed that's definitely not set up for water. I know those wires are wrapped around the gas line for some reason, but there's another one that's identical that's just in the middle of nothing. They're both basically a plastic tube in the ground with some heavy duty wires running from the top down into the tube. Here's the other one.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_cfe-RggztSWGxQOUYtX05ZTUk

Again, no idea what it is. The previous owners were in the place for 28 years before we were and were do-it-yourself-ers who sometimes gave up on their project apparently. My favorite is the random black hose that comes out from under the wall and apparently does nothing.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_cfe-RggztSXzV6M1cyS1NHMGs

 

[AZ-NG-gal]

My name is Libby Howell and I manage corporate communications for Southwest Gas in southern Arizona. Please feel free to call or email me if you have any questions about our new Customer-Owned Yard Line (COYL) program. We were NOT ordered to do this; we requested this program from the Arizona Corporation Commission, and it went into effect January 1, 2012. Our goal is to replace as many customer-owned yard lines as possible by moving the meter up to the structure, which then would make the natural gas lines our responsibility to inspect and maintain. (Most new homes constructed today have the gas meter close to the house.) The average home or business owner typically does not have the expertise or resources to maintain these lines, and a natural gas line that has not been properly maintained could be a possible safety hazard. Give me a call and I can arrange for a field supervisor to visit your house and confirm that the line you're inquiring about is the gas inlet. Feel free to contact me at 520-794-6515 or libby.howell@swgas.com.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

what is a yall

Probably the same thing as a y00t!

 

[keird]

My name is Libby Howell and I manage corporate communications for Southwest Gas in southern Arizona. Please feel free to call or email me if you have any questions about our new Customer-Owned Yard Line (COYL) program. We were NOT ordered to do this; we requested this program from the Arizona Corporation Commission, and it went into effect January 1, 2012. Our goal is to replace as many customer-owned yard lines as possible by moving the meter up to the structure, which then would make the natural gas lines our responsibility to inspect and maintain. (Most new homes constructed today have the gas meter close to the house.) The average home or business owner typically does not have the expertise or resources to maintain these lines, and a natural gas line that has not been properly maintained could be a possible safety hazard. Give me a call and I can arrange for a field supervisor to visit your house and confirm that the line you're inquiring about is the gas inlet. Feel free to contact me at 520-794-6515 or libby.howell@swgas.com.

Wow. That's some good service.

Sometimes it's nice having Anandtech being ranked so high in Google searches.

 

[MonKENy]

you can always tell gas lines because they are black galvanized.

 

[edro]

you can always tell gas lines because they are black galvanized.

Black galvanized?
I don't think black iron pipe is galvanized.
You can use galvanized pipe for gas, but I don't know of "black galvanized".
Galvanized is silver in color and ages to a dull gray (oxidized).

 

[JoeyP]

you can always tell gas lines because they are black galvanized.

Not always. Most municipalities up here use yellow polyethylene for the branches to homes.

 

[JEDIYoda]

you could always do your own leak test...
light a blow torch and let the flames hit along the entire length of the gas line......if there is a leak you will know it.......

 

[nickbits]

Not always. Most municipalities up here use yellow polyethylene for the branches to homes.

I think his point was that black iron=gas. I don't think they use black iron for anything else. Here, they they also use copper for gas.

 

[Squisher]

I doubt gas line exposed to weather or buried underground would be black pipe.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

That's not a gas line...

THIS is a gas line:

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

You won't know for sure until you cut into it with a grinding wheel of some sort.

 

[Theb]

what is a yall

Misspelling of yawl, a two-masted sailing craft. I would need a larger picture to know if that line goes to a yawl, but I would expect not.

 

[CPA]

i live in NE ohio and have never heard anybody ever say it who lives here

though i did know some texan in toledo who said it every other sentence

i told him that phrase belongs 500 miles south of here :awe:

Go to southern part of Ohio. It's like you're in Kentucky or West Virginia

 

[Engineer]

Go to southern part of Ohio. It's like you're in Kentucky or West Virginia

The water tower, just below Cincinnati in Florence, KY...

 

[destrekor]

Go to southern part of Ohio. It's like you're in Kentucky or West Virginia

The home of warshing machines, warshington, and probably many other words where "r" was never intended to be found. 😀

 

[HeXen]

i work in utility construction, definitely looks like a gas line and nice to see they even put locator wires in with it...i really hate it when some jerkwad doesn't put in a lousy copper wire to locate with.

Galvanized pipe can be anything, i've seen galvanized pipe used to house small electric wires too, usually old ones of course.