Clearing A 120 YEAR OLD Pipe At The Lighthouse! 

Have you tried a drill pipe retrieval magnet?? They will like insanely heavy drill heads out of boreholes so it should pull your pipe out without too much issue

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seriously though. hope to someday work my way down from the 1000 islands region and see your 2 lighthouses.

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@@jwyzdm we are going to announce another lighthouse soon so that will make 3 and growing! Please visit when we open them for tours, stays and events 😊

in about a year that pipe will be full of poop again

The small hole they made with that drill will not even last a year.

This was the 1st thing I thought as well. Definitely get a dive team and attack it from the outside of the caisson.

Pipe needs to come back out the way it went in imo. But not sure how. A neo magnet will stick to the original pipe before it gets to the problem pipe. Something like a fish grabber that slides down a rope or ice block grabber? Ice block grabber is way too wide. A pipe that sticks into the problem pipe with some sort of rubber thing that goes into the problem pipe and expands when the tool pipe is turned maybe. Like how a screw wall anchor works.

to get that pipe out use a cam type steel plate lifter, hook to at least a ton and a half chain com-a-long. push your rigging down the hole to the lip of the pipe and engauge with your pushrod. i cant tell from your video where to hook the other end of the come-a-long, maybe set up a tri or bipod or a beam across a doorway or steel plate with a padeye anchored to the wall........ that drain wont work with that pipe in there, looks like a 6inch nipple next to it too....... too bad you hammered it it tighter then drilled it, now ya gotta do it under water

lol best comment so far! I really don’t know how we ended up doing this but here we are saving lighthouses, making videos and loving it!

They have whole channels on here of people clearing drains.

Yup!... And blocked culverts, usually by beavers or torrential rain debris. Post10 is family safe to watch, for example, if you like uncloggings. 🕊

This is precisely why I'm subscribed to drain addict's channel over in Australia. The amount of hours of poo pipe cleaning I've watched is ridiculous.

Ditto 😊

Yeah, that old 2” pipe has to go. I thought you’d grab it with something before you broke through and filled the larger pipe with seawater.

My guess is that it's been corroding with the wall pipe for decades. Might be possible to smash it out with enough rods/2x4s in series and let it slide all the way through once it dislodges.

@@doubledrats235 I saw a a vise-grip mounted on the end of pole in my head. Once you get it clamped on the end of that pipe, pull it up. I'd bet there will be an update about this drain not working correctly someday.

It's a inline hose liner, very good and last a lifetime. Way cheaper than remove the old pipe and install a new

@@dvsur True. The ones i put in our old houses pipes even had some coating to stop the rust and stick to the old pipe. Got them in Europe though but i bet you've got products like that over there. Needed an air compressor to install though. Pipes still going strong to this day and i put them in like 16ys ago!

The treatment box they're installing macerates, so some restriction should be okay.

@@443DM I wouldn't want to be the one to clean it if it didn't. The bit end was only 3/4", that 2" has to come out for any kind of descent flow. They may be able to drill a couple more penetrations, but that would be it. I do low voltage and have the same 6' bit in my truck for fishing walls. I wonder if it could or should be bore brushed before a liner install? I'm not proficient on cast iron.

@@Normandy1944 When company did our sewer system with liner, where i use to live they start from lowest part, then used this dremel extension type cable in sleeve down the pipe that used brushes to stay centered well as clean the walls. I recall it was steel.. might been combination of straight and coiled brushes and water jets that scrape the surfaces on bare metal and flush the dirt out, then pressured air to dry it, witch brings to worst thing in this idea..i recall pipe needs to be dry and not be in use for several hours as it dries. Only method would be to get water tight seal on bottom end like bowel to cup the area, then suck water off, clean it, dry is and install the liner. It might be more feasible to remove blockage completely and use pvc pipe as new drain since it straight tube down, but before that can be even considered pipe needs to be cleared and even. In this i would probably made my own drillbit from tube and maybe diamond cup bit and maybe black iron pipes as extension handle/arm thingy, so you can rotate it to get around the pipe and then when you run into the pipe that is now not visible use it to hammer down, if you could get it dislodged or increase the drill tubes length enough to punch trough, before wire wheeling whole pipe interior with bore brush. You might be lucky and 125mm wire wheel disk fits into the pipe snuffly. I'm not familiar with the marine waste management, but i do know its better the get the tube cleaned and cleared properly before dumping anything, specially organic down the drain, even if its just gray water, let alone black.

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We definitely plan on it! We tried to remove it before but it was stuck in all that sentiment and hardened rust. Hopefully, now that we drilled out all around it'll break free 🤞

​@@thelighthousecenters Have you thought about trying a 2inch thread tap welded to the end of piece of pipe. Thread the tap into the old pipe and pull it all out. Or one of the grappling hook types. If you search "water well pipe recovery fishing tool" you'll see the different types I'm talking about. It may help you guys get an idea of how to get the pipe out. Hope you guys have a good day!

@@thelighthousecentersGood luck with the pipe too! I’m so curious to watch your pipes procedure unfold... Will a fishing magnet be strong enough to lift it? Will you drill a hole large enough to push it into the bay for retrieving? I’m searching my brains, and I just don’t know how you’re going to achieve it... and I’d be a liar if I did 😆 It was a total cliffhanger! I’m definitely tuning in to the next instalment 😄 👍🕊

Put a long piece of wood and hit it with a sludge hammer and it will come out the bottom

We call that the “Pipe Rodeo” section and the graphic is the “Poop Barometer” 😅

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You can only use a bucket for so long ;)

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My guess was the other end would get clogged with sealife, and their clearing method was to put in pieces of pipe to smash through, but they lost some pipe along the way. Then enough crud layered on it.

One of the reasons I wanted to start this project is that there is so much turmoil and division in the world, I felt like this is something we can all feel good about. Thank you for the kind words and support!

We have an underwater drone that we used to look at it from the outside and film the drill coming out into the bay. Unfortunately it broke and we had to send it back before we got the video from it 😢

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That’s a pretty good description lol BIG things are coming though. Thank you for the support!

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Future waste will be treated and macerated. It will be liquid so it shouldn’t be a problem. But stay tuned for part 2 when we slam that thing right out of the side of the lighthouse!

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It actually broke up a lot of sediment that we vacuumed out. Remember we cleared about 17 feet of 6” pipe! I believe it was instrumental in finally getting it cleared.

@@thelighthousecenters good point, there is a lot of drain there, lol

We will pound the pipe and hopefully is comes out the other side and we will have an underwater camera showing it! Sleep well 😊

Thanks a lot 😊

That was my thought as well. A Sun-Mar composting toilet would be more than enough to cover their needs.

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That is the most Aussie solution I can’t think of 😂

OMG it does look like that! Could it be corn from the 1960s? That’s the last time the lighthouse was lived in 😂

Thank you! We are working our butts off to bring more content. Just getting started. There is so much we are doing and will do to get these things restored!

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We are going to try to pound it through now that it is cleared around it. Stay tuned for Part 2!

@@thelighthousecenters If you could get a camera that you can monitor down there you may be able to hook that coupler with a wire with a hook on the end and get it out of the way.

I stopped at one in South Carolina and was amazed lol maybe they will sponsor us 😁

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Harbor freight has some good stuff and is right there when you need it 😁 I know we got the pressure washer there. Maybe you can pull some strings and get us sponsored with some more tools! 😉 Thank you for the support!

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