Mole ploughing 20mm blue pipe

[patrickr321]

Hi all

Plan: to install 150 meters of 20mm MDPE pipe to service 2 new cattle drinkers.

Considering doing this myself but have no mole plough so,

First question:

- is it possible to hire a mole plough attachment in Pembrokeshire? Or has anyone got one for sale?

Second question:

- what would I expect to pay a contractor to do the work?

Thanks

 

[robin banks]

Dig hole each end and rope off back of mole plough and just kink the blue pipe through the rope and pull away. I did this. No problems but then I am in clay soil

 

[davidroberts30]

1. probably

2. couple hours work?

 

[davidroberts30]

if you get hold of 1 to do it yourself mole the run first with no pipe

 

[Ffermer Bach]

lay the pipe on the surface, that's what I have done

 

[vantage]

Hi all

Plan: to install 150 meters of 20mm MDPE pipe to service 2 new cattle drinkers.

Considering doing this myself but have no mole plough so,

First question:

- is it possible to hire a mole plough attachment in Pembrokeshire? Or has anyone got one for sale?

Second question:

- what would I expect to pay a contractor to do the work?

Thanks

Emyr Jenkins, Pembrokeshire fencing has one. He’s moled in 000’s of meters of pipe.
20mm pipe is not very big for drinkers unless it’s a small number of cattle .

 

[serf]

Hi all

Plan: to install 150 meters of 20mm MDPE pipe to service 2 new cattle drinkers.

Considering doing this myself but have no mole plough so,

First question:

- is it possible to hire a mole plough attachment in Pembrokeshire? Or has anyone got one for sale?

Second question:

- what would I expect to pay a contractor to do the work?

Thanks

This is the machine the ancestors used for the job , presume it worked ok , they done plenty with .

And these are the bits they used to attach it to mole

And pulled by this

Not used it my self yet but will do at some stage.

 

[Netherfield]

For the sake of £30 or so, use 25 mm instead.

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[Bucks Boy]

It is actually illegal to lay blue water pipe on the surface or have blue pipe directly exposed to sunlight above ground. Light penetrates the pipe allowing algae to grow inside and contaminate water. Some pipes do have internal black liner to prevent this. Water companies do farm checks. I had one a while back.

 

[Exfarmer]

It is actually illegal to lay blue water pipe on the surface or have blue pipe directly exposed to sunlight above ground. Light penetrates the pipe allowing algae to grow inside and contaminate water. Some pipes do have internal black liner to prevent this. Water companies do farm checks. I had one a while back.

Next time he calls send him up to Norfolk and check out all the pig units!
The man was talking out of his bottom!

 

[TripleSix]

Last stuff we moled in we used a single leg subsoiler with a steel pipe welded down the back of the leg.
Just feed the pipe in as you go.

 

[Netherfield]

It is actually illegal to lay blue water pipe on the surface or have blue pipe directly exposed to sunlight above ground. Light penetrates the pipe allowing algae to grow inside and contaminate water. Some pipes do have internal black liner to prevent this. Water companies do farm checks. I had one a while back.

Better get the admin team to hide lots of photos off the website then, I've seen loads in the sunlight It's clear pipe that grows algae.

 

[Exfarmer]

Better get the admin team to hide lots of photos off the website then, I've seen loads in the sunlight It's clear pipe that grows algae.

I understood that it is illegal to use blue pipe for non potable water. I would be amazed if enough light could get through a blue pipe to allow algae to grow but if it didv it would suggest the water copmpany are not treating the water to a proper standar

 

[Cjm]

It is actually water regs that state blue pipe is meant to be used underground or protected from light. Black pipe for above ground use. Of course nobody takes any notice until the water board inspector comes for a visit

 

[Cjm]

I understood that it is illegal to use blue pipe for non potable water. I would be amazed if enough light could get through a blue pipe to allow algae to grow but if it didv it would suggest the water copmpany are not treating the water to a proper standar

If using blue pipe for non-potable water it has to be marked. Usually with a coloured stripe along its length

 

[nick...]

as above use a bigger pipe.20mm will restrict the flow,go 25 or30mm
nick…

 

[Barleymow]

It is actually illegal to lay blue water pipe on the surface or have blue pipe directly exposed to sunlight above ground. Light penetrates the pipe allowing algae to grow inside and contaminate water. Some pipes do have internal black liner to prevent this. Water companies do farm checks. I had one a while back.

Was above ground at cereals

 

[Happy hillbily]

I've had a supply to 4 troughs just layed out on the surface at the bottom of a fence without major problems for the last 20 years, even with temps down to -16 ( obviously the pipe froze but didn't have any bursts when it thawed out. It is our own low pressure system)

 

[Bucks Boy]

I don’t make the rules, I don’t enforce the rules. Had Anglia water inspection of non return valves on taps and water pipe going to service boxes on water troughs. Google blue water pipe above ground and see what it says.

Was above ground at cereals

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Emyr Jenkins, Pembrokeshire fencing has one. He’s moled in 000’s of meters of pipe.
20mm pipe is not very big for drinkers unless it’s a small number of cattle .

I put in 25mm (I think when I looked at the price of pipe!), wish i had put in 32mm