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Toffer

Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Posts: 247
Location: Sutton St Edmund, Lincs

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 4:42 pm Post subject: Laying pipe

I'm planning to take a run of the blue water pipe down to some of our paddocks that don't have their own water soon, now I know the best way is to do it with the full trench, gravel, insulation etc but as that's not going to be possible, at least not for the moment, there are two options:
1) laying along the ground at the bottom of a drainage cut
2) laying up in the air over trees / brambles
I have an inkling that the second may be better when it come to minimising freezing by keeping it out of contact with the ground, and also make it a bit easier to get to when fittings need replacing.

Any thoughts?

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:17 pm Post subject:
There is a third option Wait until it is possible to trench them in correctly. Sorry to be so negative but do it right once regret it never.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:41 pm Post subject:
It'll freeze in the air and on the ground. It'll also move about.

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:54 pm Post subject:
Bury it, and make sure you've got sharp sand or gravel around it to be on the safe side. As has been said, in the air or on the ground, it'll freeze and split. It only has to be a foot or so down (the ground rarely freezes to that depth in the UK) and you'll be safe.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 7:01 pm Post subject:
Trench, for a water pipe? Far quicker, cheaper & just as effective to mole plough it in. We did 600m in a couple of days that way.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 12 9:38 pm Post subject:
Mole ploughs are great for ble pipe, until you graze a rock. Any split could leak, you'd never find it, and if you're on a metered supply.... Hire a mini digger. Four days, six hundred metres three foot down, and it was a pleasure to do. Less than a hundred quid.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 7:09 pm Post subject:
yes, yes, do what Nick said... hire a mini digger. We did, and replaced pipe that our arse of a neighbour, (who built the house & refused to tell us where the original pipe lay)...... easy - Kieran worked the mini digger and John laid the pipe.... 3 years later - no problems.

gritstone

Joined: 11 Jul 2012
Posts: 150

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 7:22 pm Post subject:
Less than a hundred quid? Where do you get your mini digger and pipe from?

Toffer

Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Posts: 247
Location: Sutton St Edmund, Lincs

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 8:46 pm Post subject:
OK then, new follow up question, who knows the best place to hire a mini digger from in South Lincs?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 9:17 pm Post subject:

gritstone wrote:

Less than a hundred quid? Where do you get your mini digger and pipe from?

That was for the digger hire, through Brandon.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 10:02 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Mole ploughs are great for ble pipe, until you graze a rock. Any split could leak, you'd never find it, and if you're on a metered supply....

Use a pipelayer & not just a pipe dragging mole plow then that wont be a problem.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 12 10:08 pm Post subject:
You've got to be the unluckiest person in the world to hit the rock in the fens.

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 12 1:40 am Post subject:

Toffer wrote:

OK then, new follow up question, who knows the best place to hire a mini digger from in South Lincs?

david patrick hire gorefield

gritstone

Joined: 11 Jul 2012
Posts: 150

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 12 8:12 am Post subject:

Nick wrote

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That was for the digger hire, through Brandon

Still seems cheap for 4 days, excellent. I might have to get one myself got some ditching to do

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 12 2:35 pm Post subject:
Friend of a friend. Hire for a week for hundred quid.

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