Check out the roots i pulled today...

[varden]

Ha...sucked in!

But since your here.

I had my weekend planned out, ditches to dig, storm water pipes to lay.

Just need to cut open the existing clay pipe to connect my new stormwater pipes to....



As you can see the existing pipe is full of tree roots, and a tennis ball a length of rubber hose and a garden hose attachment have been found in the line too.

I cut the roots, gave em a pull and they won't budge!

What to do?



I'm going to dig up the majority of the pipe to relay deeper for another project but the roots in the pipe under the slab of me shed are going to have to come out some other way.

[MickLC]

Man that was one serious dump you took there mate

[Draven]

Well i guess your Rooted arnt ya

[Felix]

What to do?

S-E-M-T-E-X

[Gosling1]

Man that was one serious dump you took there mate

pmsl !!

'Twas indeed the Dump of Death !!

[Barrabob]

would be ringing a couple of bobcat operators about that one varden they have probably seen it all before....that and its way easier to let them dig the trench then you chuck in the pipe then they fill in the hole.

[mike-s]

I also thought the tubing had to be a lot deeper too, even for stormwater piping. Just from the shit a friend had to go to to lay 25mm conduit just to run power and ethernet to his shed!

[blackninja]

I cut the roots, gave em a pull and they won't budge!

that first pic looks like sum kinda dirty weird sex toy

[Neka79]

as a gas appliance seller, with limited gas installation knowledge..gas pipes (and i think water) need to be 300mm deep if copper, and 600mm deep if plastic.... i think...

[Poyda]

you need a rota-rooter.

Hire a dingo-digger and have some fun. Then call a plumber ot come and make it right again. Oh and do something about ya pipe rootin trees

[Nanna10r]

Time to ease off on the Ruffage Varden, passing that would have to have left "splinters"

[varden]

pyoda wrote: Oh and do something about ya pipe rootin trees

The pipe rooting tree got the chop months ago when my front door stopped shutting properly.

It got under the slab and lifted my house and now i know where it was going!

[FrogZ]

Leave it there and lay another beside it, have to be easier

[HemiDuty]

I'm with the Frogmeister man, Fuck doing it the hard way. Chuck another one in there and be done with it. Quick and easy is good.

[varden]

Yeah i think laying a new pipe along side will be the go.

The existing pipe runs along the bottom of the west wall of the house and I'd rather not go digging it up.