Very clever. Great handy hint for all of us. Betsy At 11:49 AM 4/3/2010, you wrote: > > >Well after a frustrating trip to Home Depot I acquired enough parts to >water jet a pipe under our sidewalk steps. We have a outdoor post light >fixture close to our front door and had one in the back yard. Due to the >room addition I removed the one in the back yard. They use two 12 volt >automotive 1156 lamps in series. The direct burial wire is then fed from a >24 volt transformer in the garage. I decided to relocate the back yard >light into the front at the bottom of a long sidewalk that has about six >steps strung out for 30 feet. Of course the light I wished to put on the >side opposite the house as the one up by the front door is. Therefore wire >must run under the sidewalk. So for the actual fun. The steps are four >foot wide . I found a length of black pipe about five foot long. On one >end I put a half inch coupling and then a half inch plug. In this plug I >drilled a hole about one eight inch or larger. On the other end I /Put on >a ball valve and a adapter to fasten a water hose on to it. I dug out about >4 inches on one side of the walk down below the bottom of the cement. Then >I pushed the pipe into the dirt as far as I could by hand. Pulled it back >slightly. Turned the water on very briefly, then pushed again. By >repeating this turning water on and pushing I went through the four feet of >dirt in less than 5 minutes. Very similar to the method I use to sink a >ground rod. Large companies use power equipment to do this same function. >Of course much further distances, but it is amazing how easy it goes. >Ron > >
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