Making A Simple Tool to Push Pipes Under Obstacles (Such as Driveways and Sidewalks)

To begin you’ll need the following materials.

1 ¾” steel tee

1 1”3/4 “steel nipple

3 short sections of ¾ steel pipe

1 ¾ plug (screw on)

1 ¾ pipe to hose fitting adapter that spins freely

1 ¾” valve (I use Ball valves here)

Teflon tape or pipe dope

I like one of these ¾ pieces of pipe to be about 12” in length

 The other two I want to be shorter.

I take two of the pieces and secure them into the tee so that they run straight through the line part of the tee and I place the ¾ valve and then the hose fitting adapter on the long side of the tee for this is where I use the 12” section of pipe. I then secure the other pipe into the night of the tee.

When I need to push something through, I dig the trench leading up to where I need it to go under and then I thread my new pipe onto the shout piece of pipe of the tee. Doing this allows me to use the tool multiple times and it allows it to be adapted to the ½ size if need be.

I then hold the end of the pipe in position and turn the water on at the valve on the tool. The water does the digging and it also back fills around the pipe as it digs. Sometimes I cut a point onto the penetrating part of the pipe. Sometime I have to pull the pipe back a little to let it dig a new path.  When the water starts come up on the other side of the obstacle you tunneling under stop pushing the pipe through, turn off the water at your tools valve and dig down to find the end of the pipe.

Once the pipe is past the point where you need it to be, cut off the tip and the place where is good in the first trench where you sent it from.  Make the connection to the pipes as you need to finish your project and place your new tool in a safe place so you can find it when you need it again.

You may also use this tool for removing smaller palm trees and other plants easily.

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