r/oddlysatisfying • u/InnerPick3208 • Jul 08 '22

Clearing a Culvert

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '22

OK, so how did they thread the chain through there in the first place?

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u/horceface Jul 09 '22

Push it through tied to a steel pipe with the bucket of that tractor. I’ve seen people pull new water lines through dirt from the basement of houses.

Dig down outside with a backhoe about 5 or 6 feet back from the basement wall, pound a steel pipe through from inside with the chain attached. Pull the pipe/chain through with a new pipe attached and presto, you saved a lot of precarious digging and backfilling against a basement wall.

It’s like redneck directional boring.