posted on October 3, 2004 06:13:49 PM new
IF you can tell me how to sink a dock piling with a garden hose. I've just spent hours on Google and can't find a darned thing!
The hurricane made some of the dock pilings rise up. I've watched the guy across the lagoon build an entire dock with his garden hose and I know it can be done!
The dock has been resunk once but the guy that did it has moved away and we can't ask him how he did it.
When we first started out this afternoon it initially looked like it was going to work and then it quit, although the pilings that did go down we'd dug out around them.
That's impossible to do with the pilings that are under water. We went and got a piece of PVC and used that to run the hose down alongside the piling and never made any headway after that.
My DH said that he was told it could be done like that (with PVC and hose inside to keep the hose from being stuck down there). I know I got my butt beat when I was little for burying the garden hose in the back yard that way and couldn't get the end of the hose back up!
Does anybody have any idea of what I'm talking about or how to do it? Or should I look on Ebay?
Throwing myself upon the mercy of greater minds than mine!
After 3 hours of struggling with it I said we MUST be doing something wrong and until I looked up how to do it on the internet I was giving up.
Only there's NO information whatsoever that I can find! It's evidently a deep dark secret!1
posted on October 3, 2004 07:58:47 PM new
You should hav called...
You need a jet nozzle on the end of the hose or else you won't get far.
Rig up some 8 ft pvc so you can screw a nozzle onto one end and put a hose fitting on the other end. Its all about pressure. Heck , you have pressure washer, that might even be worth rigging up.
This sand down here is easy enough to move, but you have to have enough pressure to float the amount of sand that you want to move.
Call Larry, he thinks he could do it. But don't bother calling tonight, he is already sacked out.
posted on October 3, 2004 08:10:17 PM new
Twelvepole, you'll have to tell me what you put in to bring that up for you...I tried every possible combination that I could think of and never got that close! thanks!
That's what I kept telling him, that we needed to be washing the sand out from under the bottom of the post, not along side it.
and we DID try using the the power wash hose nozzle. It didn't seem to do as good as the regular old nozzle.
The posts down the yard to the dock are not set deep and we could actually dig down that far but the posts that are closer to the water (yes low tide!) are much deeper and you can't dig down that far without hitting water.
Hmmm, pressure washer.
BTW ltray - the estimate on 2 bathroom fans? $352.00 including the fans. eeek. that didn't include wiring for the hot tub!
posted on October 3, 2004 08:15:15 PM new
We have a brass nozzle that creates an amazing amount of pressure. It is what Larry uses to sink fence posts in about 5 minutes.
