How I bury Water Pipes making a DIY attachment on a subsoiler

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2 ай бұрын

We have about 300 feet of water pipe to bury under the ground. I could buy a pipe mole for about £500, but I had a subsoiler so surely I could convert that.
The prospect of digging a trench to bury the pipe was not worth considering. Many of the pipe moles you can buy start with a subsoiler and it didn't look too difficult to build the curved pipe that I needed to feed the water pipes underground.
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@richardsullivan7284 2 ай бұрын

John’s now a star

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

He is definitely a star!!

@forenamesurname1183 2 ай бұрын

nice! might be worth digging up the trial lengths to see how much damage you are getting from the burrs and sharp edges left from the slices in the pipe

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I was a bit worried about that too, but fortunately no damage to the pipe. I would say that it would benefit from a rounded edge on the pipe inlet which I will probably add before I put it to proper use. A

@richardsullivan7284 2 ай бұрын

Excellent, I’m going to copy your design before you patent it!

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Hi Richard. Go for it. Hope you're OK. A

@markh4013 2 ай бұрын

Nice bit of make do and mending 👍Galvanising is not only a pain to weld to but the fumes from it are toxic and it should ALWAYS be ground off.

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Great advice. I ground it off and welded it outside but my gas shield around the arc was somewhat affected by the wind so some of my welds are a bit suspect. A

@user-yw9vb2dk8t 2 ай бұрын

The reason why you have to press the pipe down, is because the bend in your pipe is to short. A long time ago I used the same concept, but welded a 60 mm square inside 2 x 2.5 mm flat plates. Thus a much longer bend is made easily. 50 mm pipe easily slide through and I have laid many kilometers of pipelines on my farm as well as on other farms in Namibia. If you care to react and give me details, I can send you a photo of my implement.

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Hi there. That’s very interesting indeed. I shall have a look into this, thank you.. A

@jermunitz3020 2 ай бұрын

Great job 👏

@louisclaerhout 2 ай бұрын

Vineyard updates plzz!! :))

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Hi there, don't worry, some more will be along soon. Just waiting for them to start growing a bit more. I think if I made another video now, they would still resemble sticks in the ground, but rest assured, more will follow shortly. A

@markrussell9719 2 ай бұрын

Good job - Try sprinkling talcum powder down the pipe at the beginning of the run it will lubricate the tube & pipe.

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Great tip, thank you. A

@doesnotexist6524 2 ай бұрын

How do you plan to get to the end of hose now that the whole thing is under ground. Also, what's your frost line depth?

@mycountrylife810 2 ай бұрын

Hi there. I think when I come to do it for real, I’ll dig a starting hole so that there is no lead in with the subsoiler, that way, the pipe is exposed at the very start. At the end I will either cut the pipe and cap it before it’s buried and then just pull up the end by hand (it’s not difficult to reach into the cut made by the subsoiler and lift it up. The frost line is not deep in the uk so I think 12-18 inches down should be safe here. 2 foot would be better but my subsoiler doesn’t go that deep.