Looking for a drain jetting silver bullet

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
i have a sieger Jetter and some 1983 installed drains.
There is a 160 diam pipe blocked with roots 170 m into the field.
I have worked on this for some days now but feel I'm getting nowhere.
The nature of the soil and its ploughed with cereals I can't even walk in the area so there is no chance with a digger for months.
Is there a magic trick I am missing?
 

Fish

Member
Location
North yorkshire
You need a root cutter/ sand tip, we have used ours to clear willow roots while in crop to keep the drain running, before we could clear them properly after the crop has been cleared.
 

Fish

Member
Location
North yorkshire
We got ours from GMR (Graham Mitchell Rowland), only used ours in clay pipes, but in plastic it might damage them if you used a flexible link between the PE pipe and the tip, but you used a fixed link ( steel pipe) then I think it would be fine.
 

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