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Toffer



Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Posts: 247
Location: Sutton St Edmund, Lincs
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 4:42 pm    Post subject: Laying pipe Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It'll freeze in the air and on the ground. It'll also move about.

Gervase



Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 12 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 12 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 12 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 12 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote
Quote:
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
PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 12 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Friend of a friend. Hire for a week for hundred quid.

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