Water Powered FishTape Pusher

This is a gagdet I made from some scraps of PVC to push a socket tied to a wire through 200 feet of conduit and then use the wire to pull cable back though so I can bury it about 400 feet from my cabin to my well on my Tree Farm.

It still needs a few tweeks like a better way to hold the spool of wire but it shot it through 120 feet in about two and a half minutes and I did a 200 feet length in under 4minutes with the mock up.

Duct tape fixes everything!

Thanks to a suggestion from someone I'm gonna redo this to use compressed air instead of water so I don't have to let the pipe sit out in the sun and downhill until it dries inside....

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[Crowbar1963]

I used a small kids water balloon blown up just enough to fit with a peice of fishing line to it. Then hooked two shop vacs inline to the other end. It worked great!! I have been trying on and off for four years to get something thru a 100+' run of 3/4" buried line. WALA!! I hope this helps someone..

[senseless]

@Crowbar1963 Yeah air works better than filling the thing up with water by far if the pipe is clear. I just had to unblock an 1 1/4 conduit running under my driveway to my power box that had somehow over the years filled with sand so I ran water in from the power box side slowly so it didn't get the inside of the hot box wet with a vac on the other end and after an hour it trickled through and flushed it clean, then I let the vac run all day to dry out the pipe before I ran #6 cable through.

[MrTerry428]

a small bag made from plastic tied to a rope the stick in pipe on the other end use a vaccum cleaner to suck air out of pipe as it does it will put the plastic bubble with the rope through the pipe

[spiralisedcat]

very clever thinking man top job!