Re: rocks in me culvert...ideas how to extract (besides digging)

On Nov 6, 7:09 am, JimK <jk989...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> me culvert is partially but effectively blocked with what appear to be
> small rocks/old bricks (+ then silts,leaves, plastic bags etc but it's
> the rocks that are the main problem).
>
> Trouble is they are approx 10ft from the exit of the culvert where I
> can see them by torchlight, and say 20 ft from the culvert entrance
> (which is now 10ft deep with water etc).
>
> Any ingenious methods to extract the rocks before I begin the dreaded
> process of digging the fecker up? please!!
>
> TIA
> JimK

That's fairly long culvert by sound of it?
Suggestion:
Can you somehow get a chain through the culvert; then work it back and
forth to loosen the debris. If the chain were long enough it could
perhaps be dragged through as a continuous loop, in one direction thus
transporting the debris with it. Also some wire can be looped through
the links of chain to entangle and catch the debris to drag it
out????

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jim (08.11.2009 15:23)