Posted by rrlund on December 06, 2009 at 10:00:28 from (216.46.211.9):
We had one galvanized underground waterline left around here. A 3/4 inch running under a classA highway to the cattle across the road.Everything else had been replaced with plastic over the years. The darned thing started leaking in the dead of winter last year right next to the road in the ditch. Misserable thing lays between 2 large phone lines and a fiber optic cable. The other side of the road,it runs under the coral fence to a waterer. We patched it up last year,but decided we'd better replace it before things freeze up this year. My brother and I both figured we'd better get it inside another pipe somehow incase we need to do it again. Darned thing had to run 58 feet just to get under the road,plus the distance under the fiber optic to get it back into the yard. I had the bright idea of washing a 2 inch black plactic water pipe through with water pressure by running it over the old 3/4 galvanized. Well,we found out the clay under the road was hard as stone. We'd gone about 18 feet in an hour and a half. Seemed like a waste to me,the water that we were pumping out of the hole back into the ditch. I asked my brother what he thought about using the trash pump hooked to the 2 inch and using THAT volume and pressure to wash it through. We hooked up an adapter and WOW! That was progress! Still took close to 2 hours,but it worked. We ran a new 3/4 plastic line through the 2 inch all the way from near the coral,back across the road beyond the phone lines and fiber optic,so even if it does leak,it won't come up through the road. Just thought the trash pump idea might help somebody else out sometime.
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