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in the ground

After a recent handyman story On the Wall, this morning it was time to do some work In the Ground.

I had a problem that the grass (Couch for those interested) wasn’t doing too well, probably due to a thick thatch and not enough air and water getting through to the soil. I played around with a pitchfork, eventually deciding that wouldn’t fix it so had it vertimowed. After which you need to water daily for a week or so which had a problem. My reticulation was leaking. Where there shouldn’t have been a pipe there were 2 25mm poly pipes, one having a hole in it (caused by pitchfork or vertimower I know not).

I fixed that leak in my reticulation this morning. I chopped out about 2mm of pipe with the hole in it and rejoined the two lengths with a joiner. Since it was such a tight fit, some skin got ripped of my palm (some might be interested to know this is called a degloving injury. The best one I ever had was the sole of my foot. Don’t ever push start a Triumph TR5 barefoot on the road, after your dad doesn’t get it to start on the downhill driveway)

but wait… this is a brad story. I ran the water to check everything and…

Water gushed out of the pipe about 20cm (guestimate, its covered in soil) upstream.

yay. more work to be done.

Posted by brad at November 3, 2006 08:25 AM | TrackBack