[Shop-talk] Tunneling drain pipe down a hill?

[Scott]

Man.

This goes against my natural predilection, but hire someone to do that.

I don't see you being able to twist a 4-inch pipe as a drill by hand any 
farther than a few feet, unless it's very, very loose soil.  Then you 
have to be either very lucky, or very exact in where you land the 
output.  And that's assuming you find a way to get the pipe segments to 
hold together as you add new ones.

On the other hand, what's the worse that happens?  It's only dirt!

On 8/31/2011 12:55 AM, Brian Kemp wrote:
> I need to make some sort of tool in the shop to run a 4" drain pipe 
> down the slope in my backyard and am after the wisdom of the list to 
> make it less difficult.  The upper end is a brick patio by the house 
> (easy to take up) and the lower destination is a terrace about 40 feet 
> away.  Half the slope is too steep to stand on, so I can't really dig 
> a trench to bury the pipe.  Even if I could, all the dirt would fall 
> down the hill and I'd have to haul it up again, probably a couple 
> times.  I also have good ground cover I'd rather not loose.