On 9/9/2019 8:21 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* I was watching a show called Modern Marvels.Â*Â* It showed wooden
pipes
from long ago.Â* It also showed wooden pilings being driven for New Orleans.
Wooden pilings have been holding Venice, Italy up for hundreds of years.
Â*Â* Anyhow,Â* a couple links if anyone is interested.
http://www.sewerhistory.org/photosgraphics/pipes-wood/
https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2016/09/histroy-underground-old-wooden-water-pipes/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/lg-zKE0ETBSw4I8O_RHz5A

When I moved to my neighborhood, there was still the remains of an old
steel rod wrapped wood pipe visible along one of my jogging paths. I was
probably 1 ft. ID, wrapped with 1/4" steel at about 4" of pipe per wrap.