From our last update we have learned about pipe and gravel. Before spring break we ordered 42 feet of pipe and a 45 degree union, along with that we ordered 10 tons of gravel! One thing that we have definitely learned is that putting pipe together is very hard (I will talk more below). Also with the gravel, we ordered 1.5” ABC gravel. One thing that I take responsibility for is not checking what that actually is. What we learned is that that is a mixture of gravel and dirt. Before ordering I thought it would be just gravel. So what we decided to do was use that to fill in the whole then use the gravel by the trebuchets to put on top. Even though we did have a bit of a mixup it still worked out good.
Since our last post we have finished digging the pipe trench. We stopped because we didn't know where to dig since we were ordering a 45 degree union. So once we mapped out where everything would be we finished digging the trench. This week we have spent time doing that and trying to put the pieces together.
One obstacle as I talked about above has been putting the pipe together. The guy that gave us the pipe said all you have to do was just shove it into the next one. We found this to be very hard because we have had two people pushing the pipe into the next one and it will not go. We have watched multiple Youtube videos and are hopefully going to solve that problem today. We are going to take a piece of flat wood, put it over the head of the pipe, and start hitting that with a sledgehammer to get it to go. We are pretty confident this will work. That has been our main obstacle and once that's done it will be just dumping loads of gravel!
Since our last post we have finished digging the pipe trench. We stopped because we didn't know where to dig since we were ordering a 45 degree union. So once we mapped out where everything would be we finished digging the trench. This week we have spent time doing that and trying to put the pieces together.
One obstacle as I talked about above has been putting the pipe together. The guy that gave us the pipe said all you have to do was just shove it into the next one. We found this to be very hard because we have had two people pushing the pipe into the next one and it will not go. We have watched multiple Youtube videos and are hopefully going to solve that problem today. We are going to take a piece of flat wood, put it over the head of the pipe, and start hitting that with a sledgehammer to get it to go. We are pretty confident this will work. That has been our main obstacle and once that's done it will be just dumping loads of gravel!