I hooked up the hose end for the garden tap to the new connector, and it screwed on without any problems at all! The last few times I tried to connect it directly to the tap, the threads just would not line up, no matter what.

Which means I was able to check out where the leak is.

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When I first turned on the water, I could hear it gurgling away, then start sputtering, until I could see water starting to gush out of the ground.

After a while, the pressure just kept increasing, and I had quite the fountain spraying high into the air!

I tried turning on the garden tap and did get some some water flowing. Brown, at first, which is no surprise. After a while, though, so much water was spraying from the hole, barely a dribble was making it up to the tap anymore.

When I grabbed a stake to mark the spot, I at first hit what I thought was a root going over the hose.

I was wrong.

It was the hose (looks like a pipe, actually), itself. I pushed the dirt around a bit and exposed more of it.

I honestly expected this to be buried a lot deeper. I was expecting to have to dig a trench to get it out, and was hoping it wouldn’t be too deep. It looks like it’s barely under the soil surface at all!

Which might explain those holes. They are a series of open lines in a row, not a crack. It makes me wonder if someone went over it with some sort of equipment that somehow punctured it.

When we do get around to pulling this up, I hope to be able to bury the replacement at least a little bit deeper! We’ll see how many roots we have to work around, when we do it.

I thought this whole thing was basically a buried garden hose, like the visble section by the house that gets screwed onto the tap, but the part uncovered looks like PVC pipe.

I am now very curious as to what this set up is.

The Re-Farmer