RE: Almost OT...

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Once again thanks guy's for your input.

There is no way I could get a JCB into my back garden so that is out but
the scaffolding pipe is something I was thinking about as I did a similar
thing to sink bars into the garden to try and keep my Meerkats in their
enclosures...did not work though....the Meerkat bit that is!

I do not have very far to tunnel but it may be a non starter as I might
have to start in the living room and tunnel out under a 'orible
"crazy-paving" area and back up to enter some pipe on its journey
to the workshop.

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 June 2003 21:54
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Almost OT...


I've done it several times when installing automation to gates, we dig a
hole each side then put a point on the end of a piece of steel conduit
about
500mm long, screw on a short length of conduit with a coupler so you can
hit
it without damaging the threaded end then using brute force and a big
hammer
drive it through adding more sections of conduit as you go.
If you want a larger hole use a scaffold pole and push it through with a
JCB
bucket, I've heard this works but have not seen it done.

HTH
Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian G. Reynolds <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>
To: Ukha_D (E-mail) <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Almost OT...


> Burrowing holes..........
>
> I have been wracking my little brain on a good way to get a number of
cat5e runs down my garden to my new workshop.
>
> A friend suggested boring a hole under my patio which I just laughed
away...like you do....but then tonight I got to think about it a bit more
and it does not seem so bad....
>
> The reason for the tunnel is a gate that needs to be crossed by the
cables, I can not go over the gate but could go under the ground for about
2
or 3 metres the up and into a pipe along the fence...
>
> So the question....has anyone ever done this before with some sort of
tunnelling machine? no not a JCB! just a small mole sort of size that I
could place a 20mm tube through?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> B.