A Plugged Pipe Under The Railroad Caused Water to Surface!!

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:41]Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's a beautiful brisk spring day out here in Windiana. We're back here in the land of milk and honey again.

[00:00:50]And Bubbles and I have been here before.

[00:00:52]We uh came to fix a sinkhole and come to find out it was blown up on top the surface on the south side of the railroad, creating a big wet spot out in the field. So, we uh came over to the north side of the train tracks and it was doing the same thing.

[00:01:07]Come to find out this section of pipe was clear plugged full of roots, so we tried relieving the pressure by digging an open trench past the plugged section.

[00:01:17]And well, obviously, the pipes just clear full of roots everywhere. So, we got to replace a section of pipe from the north side of the railroad over there all the way over here where our 8-in clay pipe is blowing up.

[00:01:34]But uh yeah, these trees are these mulberry trees are not helping our situation. In between mulberry trees and walnut trees, they are one of the worst trees to have over your existing pipes. So, now the objective is to replace the pipe from the open ditch down there through the railroad which Milk is working on clearing the trees as we speak. We got to dig a cut through the railroad and on the other side of the railroad we're going to be tying into the pipe that's blowing up.

[00:02:07]Because uh well, it's clear full of water plus I don't know, probably a foot above the pipe pushing up with water, so that's not good, bubs.

[00:02:17]So, we need to be able to drain that field on the other side efficiently, so we got to replace the pipe. Well, we could start right here and just replace it with dual wall through the railroad to the other side, but as you look, it's currently 3/4 full of water, which means that somewhere in there it's 3/4 plugged full of roots, so there's more than just one bad spot. It could be down towards the outlet, we're not sure.

[00:02:44]So, so it's best just to replace the whole thing, which is what we're getting ready to do once uh Bubbles clears us a spot to dig a pipe through.

[00:03:59]>> You can just dump it backwards.

[00:04:01]Really?

[00:04:05]This goes 300 backwards.

[00:04:07]3 ft backwards. Oh, so it's the right way. I got you.

[00:04:26]>> [music] >> So we got the railroad all cleared out.

[00:04:53]No more trees are in the way. And now we're just down here with the 75 over here at the outlet.

[00:05:01]And we're getting ready to dig. So, yeah.

[00:05:04]We got our laser set up on a tenth.

[00:05:07]And we should be about 4 to 6 in lower than the 8 is right there before it hits the railroad, which it's 2 and 1/2 ft deep right there. So, if worse comes to worst, we'll just put some some of the dirt from the railroad on top of our pipe. That way it's a little bit deeper, but yeah.

[00:05:25]Should work.

[00:05:27]I should probably tell Milk Dud that there's a 18 right here before he just smokes it.

[00:05:31]Hey, there's an 18 that comes right here.

[00:05:36]Like right where your bucket's at, you're over an 18-in plastic.

[00:05:42]So, yeah. We got to basically sneak our outlet pipe in between the 18 and the 8 that's here right now. That way we can leave the old pipe running with water while we dig our new pipe in.

[00:05:53]So, that's the kind of the thought process behind that.

[00:05:56]Cuz we don't want to be working in a hole full of water the whole time.

[00:06:00]Just makes it real nice not to be doing that.

[00:06:05]But, uh yeah, getting ready to start digging.

[00:06:14]Oh.

[00:06:16]Found some uh cable wires or something.

[00:06:21]Maybe some phone line.

[00:06:22]We're not sure.

[00:07:11]Right there.

[00:07:19]Yep.

[00:07:20]Perfect.

[00:07:29]Might just be able to slip it in that bell.

[00:07:32]Sure. We've done it before.

[00:07:38]Yep.

[00:07:39]Dropping? Yep.

[00:07:50]>> Now something we are going to do different than what I don't know, some people do.

[00:07:55]Is we are going to tape this absolute snot out of our connection.

[00:08:01]That way when this grows back up in roots let's give it, I don't know, 15, 20 years.

[00:08:10]Ain't no roots going to be wanting to get into this header because it's all the way wrapped up with very, very thick tile tape.

[00:08:25]And so no ain't no roots going to be getting through that. Make sure we don't have any gaps.

[00:08:31]And that's all she wrote.

[00:08:33]But we got one stick of dual wall laid so far.

[00:08:40]And we got our outlet pipe laid.

[00:08:43]So now we're just off off to the races with our dual wall solid pipe trying to get to the railroad before lunch. Currently 10:00.

[00:08:52]You're good.

[00:09:08]It's all right there.

[00:09:15]So since we're laying this pipe through trees we got to leave our gaskets on in order for the roots not to be able to penetrate through the through the bell.

[00:09:26]So it just creates it a little bit harder to push our pipes together.

[00:09:32]So I So I'm actually going to pull it back out.

[00:09:36]I'm going to come over here to our blue lube, pipe lube.

[00:09:45]And I'm going to smear some of this all around our our uh gasket.

[00:09:54]Ooh, spilling some.

[00:10:01]So, now we should be able to just push it together. Although, my hand's a little bit slimy.

[00:10:08]So, we're going to come down here and try pushing.

[00:10:16]Oh, yep, there it went.

[00:10:19]Oh, goodness.

[00:10:21]I think we got it.

[00:10:26]Yep, we are we are in, baby. Sweet.

[00:10:32]Now, that ain't coming apart now.

[00:10:34]See that?

[00:10:36]But, uh Milk does just going to backfill that.

[00:10:41]And then we'll keep laying some sticks.

[00:10:45]Looks like he's just going to very carefully backfill with some powder.

[00:10:50]But, yeah.

[00:10:52]Catch you in a bit.

[00:11:04]I wonder if there's a specific amount of this stuff that you need to put on because I'm just doing, I don't know, half a handful at this point.

[00:11:15]And uh it seems to be working, but I don't know. We don't We don't put in a lot of We don't put a lot of lube on our pipes typically because we're usually installing them without gaskets.

[00:11:30]Because uh well, we're doing it usually in a field where there's no not a root problem for from trees so we don't need them.

[00:11:41]And the bells on the male end the way the pipes mesh with each other is usually pretty good.

[00:11:50]But uh yeah.

[00:11:53]See if we can push it. Yep, we got it.

[00:12:00]Now we're just going to walk down here.

[00:12:04]Make sure we got it good enough.

[00:12:07]Yeah, I think that rib right there is actually foam so that's good and we got our green stripe lined up decently so should be good.

[00:12:18]Stuff is stick-y.

[00:12:23]Nasty nasty stuff.

[00:12:25]Need a brush or something.

[00:12:27]My hands are all slimy.

[00:12:35]It's right before lunch it's about 11:00 and uh well, we got we got three sticks of 8-in dual wall put in. They're 20-ft sections so we got 60 ft of that and plus our 14-ft outlet pipe so we got 74 ft laid before lunch.

[00:12:55]We're just going to take a short little lunch break and the idea is because well, might as well just go to lunch before we uh get too messy as we dig through this pipe over here.

[00:13:06]It's going to get a little bit chaotic and wet so yeah, we might as well just go for it right now, I guess.

[00:13:16]Milk ducts backfilling it very carefully with some nice powder as we speak that way in case we get some water over lunch our pipe doesn't want to turn into a flotation device.

[00:13:33]But yeah, we're going to have to go get some more pipes as well because we got three more sticks and I don't think by the looks of it, three more sticks will only get us to the other side of the railroad. So, we're going to have to get maybe a couple more, TWO OR THREE.

[00:13:46]TAKE FIVE FOR LUNCH.

[00:13:50]UH WHAT DO YOU GOT? WOOD. What do you got?

[00:13:53]Wood.

[00:13:54]Want to trade?

[00:13:57]So, we're back from lunch. We got five more sticks of 8-in solid. So, that's good.

[00:14:04]And now the objective is to uh dig a cut through the railroad.

[00:14:08]And Milk Dud is uh currently working on that as we speak.

[00:14:13]He's going to loosen up some dirt, that way I can get in there with the skid steer and help him a little bit because it's a lot of dirt to move just with the excavator.

[00:14:21]And it's currently a little bit windy.

[00:14:35]If we would have brought a skid steer with a tooth bucket, he probably wouldn't have to do that, but we uh grabbed the skid steer with the smooth edge, so it's a little bit harder to take a scoop in some virgin dirt with a smooth bucket.

[00:14:48]But uh yeah.

[00:14:50]Once he gets that blown out for us, we'll attack it with the skid steer once more.

[00:15:09]>> [music] [music] [music] >> We just finished up the railroad cut.

[00:15:33]It's looking pretty snazzy.

[00:15:35]And it's getting pretty windy, so I don't know how much more I'll film or else you guys will probably be just hear me hearing the wind whistle, so yeah. Now we just need to connect our 8-in pipe that we hooked up before lunch to our wet hole on the other side of the railroad that's blowing up, and then we'll be good to go. So, that's what we're going to work on right now.

[00:16:16]Some really black soil.

[00:16:19]Really rich and some fibrous.

[00:16:23]Man, that was a big word. I'm proud of myself.

[00:17:08]Yep.

[00:17:25]>> Go a little bit more.

[00:17:28]I hate for it to be short.

[00:17:50]We uh hit some water.

[00:17:53]As we kept digging, it's maybe you're able to see it bubbling out right there.

[00:17:57]So, right now Milk Dud's working on getting some dirt on top of our pipe that way it eventually doesn't want to float away on us.

[00:18:29]Just now Just now starting to enter the cut that we dug.

[00:18:38]Milk Dud's still digging away pretty consistently.

[00:18:41]We just got done digging right next to our open ditch from where the water's flowing up to the clean pipe over there.

[00:18:49]And we got a hole full of water on our side.

[00:18:53]Looks like our pipe's taking it away pretty good. So, that means our pipe's working, which is excellent.

[00:18:59]But, yeah.

[00:19:02]We're still hammering her out Hammer We're still hammering down.

[00:19:07]Getting ready to put in another stick.

[00:19:14]Get there.

[00:19:18]Yep.

[00:19:31]You get it?

[00:19:32]All right there. Give me that right there.

[00:19:44]Down?

[00:19:46]Yep.

[00:19:49]One right here.

[00:19:59]Yep.

[00:20:14]So, we got two more sticks put in and milked out hit water and it's obviously blowing up in our faces, so So, before we did anything else, we very carefully backfilled our pipe before it became a flotation device, which it was borderline already there, but we got to it before it got too bad and well, yeah, it's nice embedded now all the way up. That way they can't float anymore.

[00:20:42]And now it's time to And now it's time to return to digging.

[00:20:46]We just got probably 40 40 more feet to go and then we will watch water run, which we can already watch water run, but we don't want to be working in a swamp, so we're not going to do that.

[00:20:59]We're not going to burst the dam just yet.

[00:21:12]>> Look what you did.

[00:21:21]We can probably put one in.

[00:21:27]Yeah.

[00:21:34]It's You're not going to be able to miss it. It's cutting back.

[00:21:39]It's just starting to make that bend out into the field.

[00:21:44]Is it really?

[00:21:47]All righty, folks. Come to find out it's actually a six going up through the trees parallel with the railroad. So, we're going to have to either poop out an 8-in T or we're we're going to have to go get one.

[00:22:02]Ah, yay. I just got wet.

[00:22:05]But, yeah.

[00:22:06]It's back back feeding from the eight, which is the main, and it's also pushing up from uphill. So, yeah.

[00:22:15]We've got a whole bunch of water coming this way.

[00:22:24]I don't think you're plugging it.

[00:22:28]He's He's trying to plug it. I don't know if it's working or not. I guess we'll find out.

[00:22:35]He might have done it.

[00:22:39]Nope.

[00:22:40]It's still leaking water.

[00:22:42]It's just going to leak water. I don't know. Yep, there it comes back again.

[00:22:48]Let's just keep digging and as as we dig it'll relieve the pressure off. By maybe the time we're we're done digging, we can put in our pipe.

[00:23:00]Right here where the stick is.

[00:23:21]So we hit that six, but our eight is still blowing up with water, so clearly there's still root problem in between where eight is blowing up and where our six tees into it.

[00:23:33]Which is right here. So obviously uh we're getting ready to hit more water, so that's what we're gearing up for.

[00:23:41]We haven't put in any more sticks.

[00:23:44]That way we don't have to fight it floating just yet. We can hopefully get milked up all dug up up to where we're going to connect it and then we can work together. That's the thought process.

[00:23:54]So we don't get ahead of ourselves too much. Because if I'm back there fighting a floating pipe, it's kind of hard for Milk Dud to get up there with the excavator help backfill as I stand on it. So we're just working together at the moment.

[00:24:08]He's getting ready to dig through the pipe, so this project is about over.

[00:24:13]All right, I guess maybe once he hits the pipe, it just started. I don't know.

[00:24:17]We'll figure it out, but we got a hole full of water over here, so something's getting ready to happen.

[00:24:26]Nope, I see the tile line.

[00:24:29]He just dug through it. Hit the pipe.

[00:24:34]Ooh.

[00:24:35]Well, we hit the pipe.

[00:24:38]Uh yeah, we got a little lazy river going on right now.

[00:24:43]It's a rushing and gushing right now.

[00:24:48]Magically our pipe stopped blowing up water in this suck hole, blow hole.

[00:24:54]So yeah.

[00:24:56]That's good.

[00:25:23]Okay, then.

[00:25:29]Okay, then.

[00:25:30]Yeah.

[00:25:31]Our hole did dry up.

[00:26:12]Not bad.

[00:26:14]Not bad? Not bad.

[00:26:16]You want to pinch it down?

[00:26:26]Okay.

[00:26:28]Copy.

[00:26:29]Yep.

[00:26:30]Okay.

[00:26:33]Woo!

[00:26:39]Yep.

[00:26:41]Like it.

[00:26:43]That was a nice one.

[00:26:47]Was it? Yeah. I couldn't tell.

[00:26:51]Now, me and Milk Dud are working together to backfill this pipe because on the other end of this 20-ft stick, it's turning into a pool noodle.

[00:27:03]I don't know if you can see that down there or not, but it's actually floating as we speak. And what my job is is just to add a few lbs to the top of the pipe to help push it down before dirt comes in to encapsulate it in place.

[00:27:18]That's all I'm doing.

[00:27:20]Milk Dud's the star of the show back there. He's uh using his arms as joystick levers.

[00:27:29]But yeah, that's all there is to this part.

[00:27:42]If I wasn't standing here, then the dirt would just do whatever it wanted to do, and the pipe would probably be off grade by 6 or 7 in. We're not really sure cuz we're not going to try that.

[00:27:54]We don't want our pipe to be off grade.

[00:28:00]Our water level has become a little bit more manageable.

[00:28:04]It's maybe a quarter of the pipe is bursting out at us, which honestly we'll take it. It's better than a full pipe.

[00:28:13]But right now Milk Dud's just trying to find a clean seam.

[00:28:18]I think he's going to go one sec- -tion that way, and then we'll try to make our connection.

[00:28:23]But yeah, we only got one more stick to lay. We got one extra just in case we had to go 20 more feet, but it's always better to be prepared than unprepared, so we might not use that piece. But yeah, this project is about to become complete.

[00:28:39]All we got to do is make this connection and backfill and load back up on the trailer.

[00:28:46]Then we'll be out of here like she's on rice.

[00:28:49]So, yeah.

[00:28:50]Let's see how fast this will take.

[00:28:53]Just like that.

[00:28:56]We just stopped with our solid pipe, and now we got perforated pipe that we found on the back of the mini.

[00:29:05]Red Milk Dud was pretty excited that he found it on the back of the mini.

[00:29:09]Or else it would have been a hassle trying to connect dual wall to the clay pipe, but hey.

[00:29:15]Some things just work out for the better.

[00:29:19]So, we are feeling pretty lucky with this.

[00:29:22]But, we just got to carefully backfill it.

[00:29:30]And then we'll backfill the rest.

[00:29:38]Yep, put some right there.

[00:29:41]Yeah, love it. Love it.

[00:29:45]Stomp it in real nice.

[00:29:47]I'm out of here.