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  • Leonard
    Leonard Member Posts: 903
    edited February 2019
    Was a company that rented large TT tire tubes for a 3 hour float down the river then bus you back upstream to your cars.

    It was appropriately called Satan's River. Couldn't pee, hospital, urinary tract infection, antibiotics and a "drain tube" for a day. Told it's common when sewer plants overflow.

    Never went swimming again if had been heavy rains within the past week.
  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 25,262
    Satan's Kingdom. It's about 5 miles from Cedric's home. Should have given me a call and come visiting! Never gone tubing there, probably never will...
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,318
    Shame you unknowingly took dookie dip. Many a plumber has☣︎ ?
  • Leonard
    Leonard Member Posts: 903
    edited February 2019
    Back then, when got out of school girlfriend that got away lived in Simsbury, took me tubing, she didn't get it. Cost me $550 hospital , just weeks after I got laid off and insurance was canceled. I'm bit far now, in NH, retired.
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,318
    Grose ! What the !!!
  • Leonard
    Leonard Member Posts: 903
    edited February 2019
    Looks like they upgraded from tractor trailer tire tubes of ~ 40 years ago.

    Takes about 3 hours to do the run. Back then remember seeing people bring large cooler full of ice & beer, lashed to few extra tubes .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=29bvqQNvUS8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=138&v=nzvF5tZPV5w

    Funny.... if you listen to video she says it's fun rapids after TWO DAYS OF HARD RAIN.


    Intplm.
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,318
    Didn't see any floaters. ( Just the ones in the tubes.) Looks improved from 40 years ago. I remember as a kid, the Farmington, Connecticut and Thames rivers all being terribly polluted. I moved out of Ct. And am semi-retired now.
    Have driven by the Farmington river and have seen people tubing. Looks like fun. Then I remember stories like yours and think twice about going in.

    Better tubes for sure.
  • Leonard
    Leonard Member Posts: 903
    edited February 2019
    Never saw anything floating but people, tubes, and coolers.

    If you rented their tube you HAD to wear a life preserver. They had "lifeguards" by the rapids and along the way who would yell at you if took life preserver off. Bring your own tube and can do anything you want, no preserver, just have to bring 2 cars , 3 miles is a long walk back to cars.

  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 25,262
    The Farmington -- now a Wild and Scenic River -- is much cleaner now than it was when you were tubing it! Also, the tubing operation is much better regulated... thank goodness. The water can get pretty wild after some rain -- or when the big dams upstream are releasing for one reason or another.
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • Leonard
    Leonard Member Posts: 903
    edited February 2019
    Did get exciting in white water without tube or life preserver. One section of rapids in middle of the run.

    White water has lot of air in it, so if you think about it density is lower, so that's why you don't float or swim as well. That was about the only brief moment I liked idea of a life preserver, akward and pulling all the other times..

    Big tubing rental operation there.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=WQEbGJdyYD4
  • Zipper13
    Zipper13 Member Posts: 229
    > @Intplm. said:
    > Shame you unknowingly took dookie dip. Many a plumber has☣︎ ?

    I used to run a waste pump out boat. Had quick connect suction nozzle and one that I could screw into the other boat more securely. I liked the quick suction attachment since to was quicker and meant there was less I had to touch. Then one day I got waked by another boat, broke suction and got sprayed from chest to knees with the crud I was pumping. That day I learned quicker is not always better.
    New owner of a 1920s home with steam heat north of Boston.
    Just trying to learn what I can do myself and what I just shouldn't touch
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,318
    Oh No ! How Awful ! Was it a cam lock type connection.
  • Zipper13
    Zipper13 Member Posts: 229
    > @Intplm. said:
    > Oh No ! How Awful ! Was it a cam lock type connection.

    The cams held fine. But the suction broke around the lip and it was all over.

    One of these https://m.go2marine.com/product/212694F/edson-quick-clamp-pump-out-nozzle-w-splash-guard.html?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=gb1&utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=productfeed&utm_campaign=googleshopping&gclid=CjwKCAiAqaTjBRAdEiwAOdx9xlM-S57Deol4P2ua4FcQzNNgIAFz_JdCBi9ZZV_OReAY_eLY1hpbKRoCA1kQAvD_BwE

    I'm way off topic from the OP now. But it was interesting getting here.
    New owner of a 1920s home with steam heat north of Boston.
    Just trying to learn what I can do myself and what I just shouldn't touch
  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
    @Zipper13 said: I'm way off topic from the OP now. But it was interesting getting here.
    No worries. I posted this topic for general conversation.

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