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RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - joe1086 - 06-19-2017
Does your sprinkler pipe have curve in it from being coiled? Maybe heat/torch the last foot or so to straighten it, fix a tennis ball on the end....that ought to do it.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - DogwoodTales - 06-19-2017
Float the ball ... Ingenious!
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - daddo - 06-19-2017
Whether it be a pipe or extension cord or rope, they get hug up on something every time you try and drag or run them along. I remember pulling my extension cord across the yard and it hung up on the corner of a sidewalk and no matter all my shaking and flipping the cord, it would not come loose.
I remember thinking if I were depending on that cord to hang up to save my life from falling off a roof or whatever, it wouldn't happen.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - crokett™ - 06-20-2017
(06-19-2017, 08:52 PM)daddo Wrote: Whether it be a pipe or extension cord or rope, they get hug up on something every time you try and drag or run them along. I remember pulling my extension cord across the yard and it hung up on the corner of a sidewalk and no matter all my shaking and flipping the cord, it would not come loose.
I remember thinking if I were depending on that cord to hang up to save my life from falling off a roof or whatever, it wouldn't happen.
Yup. Rule also applies to ratcheting straps or bungees. I have holes in the sides of my trailer that the hooks won't go into, but when I'm pulling them off a load to unload it, they'll get caught on the tiniest little protrusion....
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - JosephP - 06-20-2017
Could you blow a plastic streamer through?
(See my solution for lint buildup in the dryer vent thread...
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RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - crokett™ - 06-21-2017
(06-20-2017, 09:35 PM)JosephP Wrote: Could you blow a plastic streamer through?
(See my solution for lint buildup in the dryer vent thread...
I don't know, its about 40' overall length. the golf or tennis ball + fish tape is probably what I'll do. other higher priority stuff keeps cycling in though.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - JosephP - 06-21-2017
I'd bet the leaf blower would blow a wiffle ball with a string. I know the big compressor would. Mason string may be the cheapest/easiest to find. I don't like it too much for pulling because it has some stretch...but you don't likely have a bunch of old sections of zing-it (tree climbing throwline) lying around.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - crokett™ - 07-17-2017
The tennis ball worked like a champ. I finally had a bit of time yesterday. I used one of the dog's chew toys. He won't care that there's a hole in it, the ball will get to chewed up sooner or later anyway. I stuck that on the end of the sprinkler pipe and it went right through.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - Stwood_ - 07-21-2017
I hope you used the right color of ball.
RE: Pulling Sprinkler Water Line Through Corrugated Drain Pipe - crokett™ - 07-22-2017
(07-21-2017, 05:58 PM)Stwood_ Wrote: I hope you used the right color of ball.
It's red. Is that the right color?