Blocked Drain 191 - Not your "Average" blocked drain 

So that's where the ball with the goofy face came from. 😃😃

Incredible Gavin, got to see the birth of SCARY BALL! Well done sir. He is a worthy addition to the team. Angry looking dude. He will keep nosy pedestrians at bay.

Now we know were the "Scary Ball" came from

They called those toys "Madballs" and they came out around mid 1980's. When I was young and still in early primary school, they were all the rage. There would be regular meetings in the playgrounds where the kids with better off families would trade their duplicates for either other madballs or even tuckshop money from their parents. Never really got into them myself (single parent family and I was the eldest boy), probably due to knowing that my dad would not buy what he regarded as junk (he used a different word, but I am toning it down somewhat). It was back before pokemon, monsters in my pocket, didn't even have mobile phones or household computers. The good old days, when if you told your parents you were bored, they made you do extra homework for academic credit or household chores, so us kids, we used every opportunity to get out of the house and play in the sun... 😁

I half expected the video to stop just after Gavin says "hold on a sec, that's not red soil, it's BLOOD!"

Looks like another home where the kids (past or present) have tossed toys on the roof that went down or dropped then in the downpipe. Yay kids!🤣🤣

Ollie, Croc, Ratty and Baby Rat sent me so I'm here. Cheers

IMAGINE 2 CARS,2 BALLS & a spelling block + the smiley face, that’s quite a haul, stay well stay safe , 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸

Kids and all their unexpected costs lol. Good repair.

Stay safe down there. Pics of the flooding are crazy!

The Origin of the Mad Ball...😁

Love the videos. Not much use for that particular service where I'm at as everything runs off the grass into the streets. 2 quick things... 1. For a cleaner end result, when digging use a small tarp to put dirt/mud and sod on. 2. I'd have tried taping a small hook in the camera to try and dislodge the obstructions. While I'm not in the same business, I have some of the same issues.

A very good Thursday evening to you all from Wellington Somerset in the UK

That looks like Slimer from Ghostbusters.

Oh wow, watching old vids to play catch-up and discovered an origin story 😁❤️

Awesomeness overload video, expert job

That was such an interesting job to watch, but feel sad for Gav because it took so long and he said he had a busy day ahead, and maybe a cyclone. A reminder of the importance of all workers in our communities who keep us healthy and our lives ticking over in relative comfort.

9:34 Is that dice the strangest thing you've found in a pipe? Loved your comment. 🤣 10:52 That string cut was cool but why did you use it rather than the saw? 11:40 That's where you got that ball! Another great job done Gavin!

Well done! 🧊🧊🧊😮😮😮👍👍👍

Shout out from drain addict today! And a storm water filled with soil, great content as always mate!

Would love to have a time stamp of when you arrive on site to when you leave. Like arrived 9am left at 12pm. Just interesting to know how the time is spent, as people assume things seem easier and don’t take long but watching this just shows it doesn’t. Great work.

9:27 pm in USA to 10:04 pm. How that for a time stamp. Love all your new finds. Those matchbox cars/trucks could be worth some money as they look like old collector items. You do such great work. And you're right just take your time or your anxiety level will peak when you force yourself to struggle in a hurry. Right oh! Thanks again for the fun videos of finding treasures of all sorts.

😂😂😂😂😂. The birth of mad ball. He personally pulled it out of its birth hole!! 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

What a mix of different coloured waters from one drain

A difficult clog, but you conquered it! Cheers Gavin. 🇦🇺🙂👍🇺🇸

I had to cut out a section of 4" to correct an offset, and add a cleanout today in a client's mainline and I found myself digging under the pipe to check for anything before cutting. This is something I did not make common practice until watching your videos.

🐸 I think the home owner got this job done JUST in time! ☔⛈️🌧️🌩️ Looks like you had a ball on this job! 🤔 🎲🚘⚽

Toys in plumbing; Spanking time! I knew it was a bad omen when you first discovered the toy block. Sorry you had to get hugely detective on this one. Good job!

You are a great professional who takes pride in his work and has a good focus on customer service. I had a plumber come to my house when a pipe broke and the unnecessary mess from two floors was nasty. I am in America and can tell you Australia is lucky to have you. Keep up the good work and keep your eyes open for snakes! Yikes!

Great video Gavin! Scary ball is now part of the team!

Well done 👍

That job was a pain in the 🥎🥎👏👏

Reminds me of when my brother filled a clean out with gravel when we were kids.

I know your way to busy to respond , and that's O.K.. But your are truly one stand up guy doing a very interesting and tough job ! Carry on !

That looked like an episode of Taggart for a while there... "there's been a murder"... 😱

nice work

Maybe you found a kids time capsule lol

Great job even the replacement and repair the client should be grateful for that you are amazing

Another great video, really interesting. That drain was like a lucky dip, I wasn't sure what you were going to find next - at least there weren't any socks lol

Love the vids. Ive always enjoyed watching experts working. You need a spring loaded lever on one of your nozzles that would hook behind the balls so you can pull them out easier.

Pipe just kept on giving

Enjoyed the work, video, and new team member 👍🏼 good job buddy. 👏

Love watching these vlogs 👍

A great, but difficult clog. Came out swinging, and hoping a home run! Cheer Gavin!! 🇦🇺🙂👍🇺🇸

Great find mate 👍🏻 Wish you were up my way, we need someone like you in our town!

very good work, good flow, saved the customer a lot of trouble! I love seeing all the tricks of the trade demonstrated in your videos.

It wasn't just a blocked up drain it was a war! Damn little tykes and their toys. But you won the war Gavin. Mission accomplished!

Awesome job. You good work.

Yeeessssssss! I finally found where/when the Penetrator Ball joined the team! Fun fact, that Ball was actually 1 of 4 "Battle Balls" you could get at Subway (Eat Fresh) back in 1995. Weird thing is, that Ball only came in Red, so either the color wore off or it was a misprint of sorts! But yeah, I can understand how some people mistook it for a Madball but they were more abnoxious and gory looking! Altogether it is a great video! I'm almost halfway through all of your videos! (Not going in order, but plan to watch them all!)

Great investigation, Gavin! 😀🪣🧤🔦

I remember that it’s called mad balls toy.

I finally found when Mad Ball Joined The Team! #PenetratorTeamComplete Mad Ball is in the House!

The lil green pooernator

It looks like you did this job on my birthday 🎂

You find SO many treasures during your work. I think it may be a good idea to switch professions (at >50 years old), just so I can find some of these things. :-)

Wonderful Job ❣️🥶

some of the things you find in drain pipes funny the things kids throw on roofs

Well done

Hihi in this House to live a Golfer! And to Think the Rainwater Pipe is the Hole for the Ball! 😱A great Day the break Pipe repair, then the pipe to cut and the Ball clear and repeated repair. This is not a Fun. Greeting 🇦🇹

Your childhood dream....playing in the mud and getting paid 😂

Big Bertha in for the fight

When I first saw the site I thought it might have been energex or Telstras fault. Both are so close to the storm water pipe. Just another reason why you should have leaf / gutter covers on your roof. Kids throw balls and they end up on the roof then down the down pipe.

Excellent video Penetrator, really interesting on the colour of the water dark red is that the colour of the soil.

Great job

THIS is where the scary ball came from!!! LOL... I'm not exactly watching them in order.

Good job 👍 if you didn’t have the camera it would have been confusing.

Great video always looking for them. I just saw someone using a harness off sorts to hold the camera on a shoulder vs in your mouth. I would think it would work for you.

🐸 If Telstra/NBN Co damage your infrastructure, that's OK. BUT, if you damage their infrastructure - big problems ! Great job repair other people's damage ! 🙂

Are the kids who put the toys in the drain in their 20s now?? LoL 😂

Good to see the origin of "Mad Ball" Telstra contractors are the worst.

Had a thought if you pushed the nozzle past the balls and out the other end and change to a larger head might have been easier if that was even possible haha

up to 150mm of rain large floods nsw 9 dead some cyclone. Hope your ok . Carry on ..

How far do you travel with your business? Great job!

Maybe that's why the ball is mad, it lost his cube, lol

🐸 Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Squashed section. Easy ! 🤔

Hilarious,toad security

Which level of Hell did you penetrate to turn the water that colour? Or did I miss something?😂

Just wondering Gavin if the homeowner can get reimbursed from Telstra or whoever for the repair work, because there is no way that junction pit was put in without that drain being uncovered, they probably dropped the fit on the drain causing it to displace and eventually break.

The Madball!!!

How'd you go with the floods mate

What kind of drain camera are you using?

Scarry ball!!

My suspicion is that a track or tire was parked over that section of pipe, shoving it down. The 'die' isn't - it's just a child's letter block. People just don't like replacing broken covers on their drains.

MadBalls i think, popular in the 90s or so

yiooie///TCO is on the job

Wouldn’t it be easier to have entered the pipe with from the house side to be behind the balls, and then forward jet them out?

mutant ninja turtle head

That cube is a Die 🎲 just find one more and then you have Dice Don't leave it alone Keep Digging and find another one LOL

Why does code allow such thin walled pipe?

What a lot of balls?

I teach feng shuii. kind of everything means something. so the sink means it is a trap and as you said a cyclone is expected so do not keep the items you removed from the pipe as this will block you in a big way.

I know this was a while back, but you seemed like you didn't feel good..

I have to ask. Is safety toad taxidermy or rubber?

Ever get the feeling he could use a larger water tank?

You need a hydro vac like t2d2 on steroids and your jetter lance to dig around other services eg telsta and power

we say: one,s men dead is the other me,s bread

These little kids putting all these things down drains... I'm glad I never did that... 🙄

WHY do you always edit out the actual repair part? i feel robbed

I wonder if there were children in that house....

What a prick of a spot to deliver the gas cylinders to... the step and sloped driveway...