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Check out the roots i pulled today...

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:49 pm
by varden
Ha...sucked in! :lol:

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....

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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?

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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.

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:51 pm
by MickLC
Man that was one serious dump you took there mate :shock: ;)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:56 pm
by Draven
Well i guess your Rooted arnt ya :lol:

Re: Check out the roots i pulled today...

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:39 pm
by Felix
varden wrote: What to do?
S-E-M-T-E-X

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:09 pm
by Gosling1
Mick C wrote:Man that was one serious dump you took there mate :shock: ;)
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: pmsl !!

'Twas indeed the Dump of Death !!

8)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:25 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:27 pm
by 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!

Re: Check out the roots i pulled today...

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:43 pm
by 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 :shock:

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:57 pm
by 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...

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:10 pm
by 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

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:47 am
by Nanna10r
Time to ease off on the Ruffage Varden, passing that would have to have left "splinters" :P

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:24 am
by 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! :evil:

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:28 am
by FrogZ
Leave it there and lay another beside it, have to be easier :wink:

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:20 am
by 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.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:52 pm
by 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.