Machine to lay water pipe.

[james ds]

Hi , I have a lot of water pipes going out to cattle drinkers , and I want to ploughing in the pipe , is there any handy machines available to do this, thanks.

 

[milkloss]

Subsoiler leg with a bit of pipe welded down the back to ‘lay’ the pipe? Big enough for joiners too.

 

[Steevo]

Your best bet is something like this....better than a standard mole as it doesn’t pull on the pipe as much.

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[vinnie123]

vibratory moleplough is what you need, can lay 1000+m / day @ 850mm deep

you can get 3000m reels of pipe too which save a fortune in time and couplers.

 

[Andrew]

We just take the ball off a mole drainer. Put the rollpin back in. Pass the water pipe around the rollpin, fold it back on itself and use a couple of jubilee clips.

Then just drive. Works OK here, but we’re on heavy clay. If you have lots of flints it may not be ideal.

 

[TripleSix]

If you've big stone you may want to do a practice run first.

 

[rbg27]

www.mayfive.co.uk they have vibrating ploughs and do a lot of pipe laying on dairy farms

 

[Sebastian77]

Subsoiler leg with a bit of pipe welded down the back to ‘lay’ the pipe? Big enough for joiners too.

We made one exactly like this.. laid a few hundred meter of the blue water Piper no hassle

 

[milkloss]

We just take the ball off a mole drainer. Put the rollpin back in. Pass the water pipe around the rollpin, fold it back on itself and use a couple of jubilee clips.

Then just drive. Works OK here, but we’re on heavy clay. If you have lots of flints it may not be ideal.

The old man did that years ago...... something scored the pipe as they didn't drag it quite straight. Reckon it cost us 10's of thousands on water over the years.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

We've got a Browns consort mole plough with a pipe layer tube. We ALWAYS do a 'dry run' first though.

 

[Wombat]

The old man did that years ago...... something scored the pipe as they didn't drag it quite straight. Reckon it cost us 10's of thousands on water over the years.

Surely you would have picked it up on the water meter

 

[Davy]

Subsoiler leg with a bit of pipe welded down the back to ‘lay’ the pipe? Big enough for joiners too.

Do you trust the joints not to get a pull, then leak? I always dig a hole for the joint then I can test them all before filling in

 

[james ds]

Thanks for all the ideas lads , you have got my brain thinking and as I have already got an Erth panbuster , I think it won’t be a big job to convert it , lock 3 legs up in the air and make up a pipe for the water pipe to run through , make up a reeler for the roll of pipe . The roller coming after should leave a clean job.

 

[Davy]

I bodged that up yesterday with bits of scrap. Should do a job

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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it's even got yer name on it.

This is what I have James, the chute has a small "track" on the inside and a plastic slide-out piece, so you can join a pipe, slowly feed it in as you pull forward a bit, then drop the plastic back down and pull the next length in. It's bloody excellent.

 

[Ormond]

Slightly off topic but they're putting in fibre broadband in around here....seen a ditch witch pulling something in....i guess ducting...theres inspection points every 200m ish.....be interested to know what depth they were going....think it was on 4 tracks....pulling it in a wide grass verge

 

[dave6470]

Thanks for all the ideas lads , you have got my brain thinking and as I have already got an Erth panbuster , I think it won’t be a big job to convert it , lock 3 legs up in the air and make up a pipe for the water pipe to run through , make up a reeler for the roll of pipe . The roller coming after should leave a clean job.

Make sure you put it in deep enough took ground last year for potatoes that had water pipe put in 30 years ago with something like that pulled it up six times with the ridger[emoji35]

 

[TripleSix]

Water pipe should be in to 750mm ideally

 

[tr250]

Slightly off topic but they're putting in fibre broadband in around here....seen a ditch witch pulling something in....i guess ducting...theres inspection points every 200m ish.....be interested to know what depth they were going....think it was on 4 tracks....pulling it in a wide grass verge

Yea we have them doing it round here too they told me they told me they were using a quadtrack I had a surprise when I saw it

 

[HarryB97]

If your lands gravely/stoney avoid moling or subsoiling it in. I hire in an Avant Loader with a trencher on and then bed and cover the pipe in cable sand before backfilling, waters not getting any cheaper so dont want a leaking pipe in a few years time!

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