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warrenh
location:
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Gender: Male
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< on 6/1/2005 4:33 PM >
|  | | | Anyone have any general guidelines, or tricks, for exploration of sanitary drains?
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HolyJesusILoveCreed
 
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location:
MN
Gender: Male
"So-called Urban Explorer"
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<Reply # 1 on 6/1/2005 4:54 PM >
| | | | Do you mean sanitary sewers, or drains?
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
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Louie
   
| | | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 2 on 6/1/2005 5:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by warrenh
Anyone have any general guidelines, or tricks, for exploration of sanitary drains?
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Uhhh... don't?
Unless you really like poop and condoms.
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ofberenonehand
location:
Minn-e-snow-ta
"Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve."
| | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 3 on 6/1/2005 5:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by warrenh
Anyone have any general guidelines, or tricks, for exploration of sanitary drains?
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Put on your flippers and snorkel and go for it!
"That's What Government Is For; To Get In A Man's Way" -Mal |
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drainpunk
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<Reply # 4 on 6/1/2005 6:17 PM >
| | | | ^ Haha! 
Never done that, but what I've read good gloves and hat are useful. The hat prevents you messing your hair etc. I'd suggest rubber boots and probably something covering the clothes, as well.
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HolyJesusILoveCreed
Member has passed away. Account closed out of respect.
location:
MN
Gender: Male
"So-called Urban Explorer"
| | | | | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 5 on 6/1/2005 6:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by drainpunk
^ Haha!
Never done that, but what I've read good gloves and hat are useful. The hat prevents you messing your hair etc. I'd suggest rubber boots and probably something covering the clothes, as well.
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Suits work as well, I'll post up some pics of us exploring the sewers in suits when I get home
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
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Bobtheallmighty
location:
Somewhere over london, Ontario
Gender: Male
gotta climb.
| | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 6 on 6/1/2005 10:08 PM >
| | | | i would advise agains going into a sanitary sewer. there is usualy a large methan build up, you would die of aspixiation in minutes if not seconds of entering the sewer without some sort os scuba system.
-bob
" <Samurai> you know, we aren't as far removed from animals as we'd like to think... i still have bowel movements that border on mystical... i mean almost orgasmic" |
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Kakesu
location:
England. Fun!
Gender: Male
printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");
| | | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 7 on 6/1/2005 10:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by HolyJesusILoveCreed
Suits work as well, I'll post up some pics of us exploring the sewers in suits when I get home |
Classy.
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Macsbug
Noble Donor
location:
St. Paul, MN
Gender: Male
Safety First!
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<Reply # 8 on 6/2/2005 1:14 AM >
| | | | Posted by bobtheallmighty
i would advise agains going into a sanitary sewer. there is usualy a large methan build up, you would die of aspixiation in minutes if not seconds of entering the sewer without some sort os scuba system.
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Well I guess you can call me the typing dead then...
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Burzum
Noble Donor
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<Reply # 9 on 6/2/2005 4:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by bobtheallmighty
i would advise agains going into a sanitary sewer. there is usualy a large methan build up, you would die of aspixiation in minutes if not seconds of entering the sewer without some sort os scuba system.
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dear me. i would consider both fact and spell checking in the future - while methane is quite dangerous and all, you may find you are overstating the case a tad.
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PAWolf
Not from Pennsylvania
location:
KCMO
Gender: Male
We haven't located us yet.
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<Reply # 10 on 6/2/2005 5:37 AM >
| | | | Hepatitis A among other nasties. No thanks.
Make Beer, Not War. |
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Mr. BLAB
Gender: Female
| | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 11 on 6/2/2005 6:16 AM >
| | | | Posted by fatLouie
Unless you really like poop and condoms.
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Hey, hey, hey! Come on, that wasn't cool. Some people have... different tastes, is all... ahem... Wow, this is awkward. ;)
Anyway, I wouldn't do it, but it's up to you. My tip would be to wear rubber boots (previously mentioned), and don't breathe through your nose. I think this post just won my Most Obvious Post award.
Just wait, and listen to others with more experience than me, they'll help you out. Within a week, this thread should be full of tips.
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drainpunk
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<Reply # 12 on 6/2/2005 9:31 AM >
| | | | | Suits work as well, I'll post up some pics of us exploring the sewers in suits when I get home |
Wow, that'll be cool! Sewering interests me a lot.
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warrenh
location:
Bloomfield, Michigan
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 13 on 6/2/2005 9:10 PM >
| | | | The only real reason I would attempt this is because I know of a connection between the sanitary system and the storm system, which would lead to many other tunnels. Accessing the storm system directly would be very difficult.
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junkyard
location:
LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 14 on 6/7/2005 11:49 PM >
| | | | Methane, my butt. Sometimes we smoke cigars in the sewers. The workers do. Sometimes we take pics with candles, the workers don't. They usually have some sort of ventilation and many cities have CSO systems still. I've gone in in street clothes and for longer trips chest waders, a raincoat and a good hat keeps the snotsticles at bay, right MacG? Kitchen gloves are a good way to accessorize your ensamble. The big yellow ones where the lady looks happy as hell to be doing the dishes. I guess the TC folks are just a superhuman breed......or just maybe The Mouse is on their side.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
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GreyKat
location:
Minneapolis/St Paul MN
Gender: Male
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
| | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 15 on 6/8/2005 1:13 AM >
| | | | The mouse is always on our side.
I suggest rubber boots or waders, gloves, hat, and if your scared of gasses then some type of breathing apparatus. Most the time we just walk on in and stay to the sides to keep the poo off. Its always funny when someone slides in and you hear the sploosh though. Oh yeah and dont forget something to fend off the bugs and rats.
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Freak
location:
Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
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<Reply # 16 on 6/20/2005 6:49 PM >
| | | | Paris has good sewers. I was hoping to find the boat-size ones, but we didnt' get that far. I stepped in lots of le French poop, no explosions due to gas. Played The Stranglers "Down in the Sewer" out our backpack-mounted 12€ speakers and it was good.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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drainpunk
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<Reply # 17 on 6/20/2005 7:40 PM >
| | | | ^ Haha, that's cool!
Viva la France!
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bikepunk
location:
Vancouver
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Sanitary Exploration
<Reply # 18 on 6/22/2005 2:14 AM >
| | | | I went through the sewer museum in Paris (les egouts), just to check it out. They had this room with a replica of a huge ball type thing (10+feet across) that they use to periodically sweep through the sewers to remove collected grit and stuff. How would you know if that is coming down the line or not? Maybe that is only in Paris. Anyways, it was interesting, and the weird little gift shop had great books on the underground, but the smell was pretty intense. Apparently the egoutiers only work 30 hours a week and get amazing benefits from the French government. Sewers are not really my type of exploring, other than the glimpse that the museum provided.
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Jef
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Gender: Male
Hey Look at me....
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<Reply # 19 on 7/9/2005 2:37 AM >
| | | | i think you'd have to be an idiot to go exploring in a sewer. walking in others shit and piss. thats fucking gross
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