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- Gerry Ide
So, the neighbors driveway has a 12 inch drain tube under it that was partially blocked.
I'm on the opposite side of the road,
sitting between an acre of flooded property and the county drain - but the way the land lies, the drainage is under the road, under the neighbors driveway and into the large (80 foot right of way) major county drain. Most of our property is dry, but a corner of the lawn by the road is under water and I'd like to "drain the swamp" before the mosquitoes get too bad..
I had tried getting some of the dirt out of the neighbor's driveway tube with a long handled hoe, but needed to get all the way through - 30 feet. The 129 looked like the obvious tool (the old "when you have a hammer, the whole worlds a nail...."). A little rebar, some scrap 3/16 plate, a hundred and ten foot piece of 3/8 cable and about a half hour of sunburn and we had a "pig" ready to drag through the drain.
I cut the cable in half and put loops on each end. The coned end was pulled through first and then I Tom Sawyer'd my long suffering next door neighbor into helping.The flat side really worked on scraping the bottom of the tube. As the tube cleaned out, we decided to add a larger disk to the flat side, and a little later, cut another, larger disk. We slotted these disks to put them on and used some of those nifty self drilling screws to fasten them in place. (this shot after we were done, it's a little "used" at this point).
...The good news? Drain tube cleaned. The bad news?? NO ACTION SHOTS. More bad news? The rains in the last few days have flooded the river to the north that the county drain flows into, the county drain is backed up and the water has been running BACKWARDS through the now cleaned drain tube..(Guess where it's going.)
I'm on the opposite side of the road,
sitting between an acre of flooded property and the county drain - but the way the land lies, the drainage is under the road, under the neighbors driveway and into the large (80 foot right of way) major county drain. Most of our property is dry, but a corner of the lawn by the road is under water and I'd like to "drain the swamp" before the mosquitoes get too bad..
I had tried getting some of the dirt out of the neighbor's driveway tube with a long handled hoe, but needed to get all the way through - 30 feet. The 129 looked like the obvious tool (the old "when you have a hammer, the whole worlds a nail...."). A little rebar, some scrap 3/16 plate, a hundred and ten foot piece of 3/8 cable and about a half hour of sunburn and we had a "pig" ready to drag through the drain.
I cut the cable in half and put loops on each end. The coned end was pulled through first and then I Tom Sawyer'd my long suffering next door neighbor into helping.The flat side really worked on scraping the bottom of the tube. As the tube cleaned out, we decided to add a larger disk to the flat side, and a little later, cut another, larger disk. We slotted these disks to put them on and used some of those nifty self drilling screws to fasten them in place. (this shot after we were done, it's a little "used" at this point).
...The good news? Drain tube cleaned. The bad news?? NO ACTION SHOTS. More bad news? The rains in the last few days have flooded the river to the north that the county drain flows into, the county drain is backed up and the water has been running BACKWARDS through the now cleaned drain tube..(Guess where it's going.)
