"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:37:38 -0000, the infamous "Andrew Mawson"
scrawled the following:


"Pirateer guy" Dan@ wrote in message
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I need to drill a hole from my basement to the drainage ditch
about
15
feet. I want to run a 1 1/2" pipe for my sump pump to discharge
water
from the basement to the ditch.
How can I drill a hole through the ground? Don't want to dig up
the
drive way.
An ideas?


Google Grundomat Mole

That's similar to the little guy they used to put in my natural gas
line, but it didn't have the rotating head.

They dug a shallow foxhole at the house, sent the little guy out to
the street, and had to dig down almost 4' to find him. Oops, they
didn't send him quite straight through the rocky old river-bottom.
g

(That's fun technology. Some rental yards have them now, Dan.)

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We're born hungry, wet, 'n naked, and it gets worse from there.

he..he.. I picked up one on ebay a few months back - 45mm diameter -
runs off my big 140cfm air compressor. I need to pull various pipes
and cables across my site, but yet to use it in anger.

AWEM