Unrolling pipe

[diggerjones]

Got about 30x 32mm rolls of water pipe to unroll. Any ideas.
Thanks

 

[Brendan]

Got about 30x 32mm rolls of water pipe to unroll. Any ideas.
Thanks

I used a traffic cone and bucket of the machine for a few rolls of ducting, throw roll over cone and bucket to pin the cone in place, then just walked the duct out. Might work for water pipe?

 

[DaveDCB]

A nice hot day will help whatever you do!

 

[doobin]

Build or hire a proper pipe unroller. f**k doing 30 rolls by hand!

Shame you're not closer.

 

[DaveDCB]

Have you got the pipe yet @diggerjones ? You can get it in 150m rolls… save some joints!

 

[V8Druid]

Alex @Op_Alx24/7 made one to go on his machine, for a similar job ... don't know whether he sold it or not ... PM him Dylan - he still looks in here now and again

 

[Smiffy]

We had a job putting in 100mm ducting.
A piece of scaffold tube held by the hydraulic-quick hitch jaw worked really well for uncoiling it. Would be even better with a piece of wood at the end of the scaffold tube as you had to hold it at an angle so it pulled onto the pole all the time instead of being able to hold it square

 

[diggerjones]

Have you got the pipe yet @diggerjones ? You can get it in 150m rolls… save some joints!

Yeah 30 x 150m of 32mm. It was £134 a rolla month ago. Now £155

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Build or hire a proper pipe unroller. f**k doing 30 rolls by hand!

Shame you're not closer.

For your sake I can assure you it isn’t!

 

[DaveDCB]

Yeah 30 x 150m of 32mm. It was £134 a rolla month ago. Now £155

You tapping into carsington reservoir or something?!

 

[diggerjones]

Thanks for replys. After a bit of ringing around. I found one to hire up the road

 

[Gecko]

Got about 30x 32mm rolls of water pipe to unroll. Any ideas.
Thanks

Does you'rs come pre-kinked or do you have to do it your self?

I've trenched and laid about 1400m of 1" - had to return 3 rolls due to visible kinks before I'd cut the bands.

I've tried early morning with a due, late morning with nice sun and full summer sun (40C plus). Cut the bands an hour before unrolling to let it relax, but I've found no technique that will reliably roll it out without a getting a kink where it previously looked faultless.

The 1-1/4" x 150m here ships with a small coil inside a large coil - if yours is the same, only take the large coils, the mortality is lower.

 

[diggerjones]

 

[Monkeybusiness]

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Combine that with @Routy56 digger and you are most of the way there to helicopter ownership mate!