This is a job at my work. We had a medium good condition gum above a broken 4 inch water main. Debate, loose the tree $1000 to sox n stump or dig & slip line the main $4000. (which still needed to be fixed anyhow)
We did the math adding some tree usefull life & amenity $ value & found it was worth the cost.
Argument is we could plant a lot of new trees for 4K but as we are in bad drought and this area high vandalism it was dig n fix.
The job went well no significant roots or hindrance. A picture shows the slip line coupling in red they cost $800 each. A home water tapping feral is the copper piping and fitting. The picture of cut section 4 inch asbestos water main shows how thick these are. Asbestos? yeah we used this for water mains 30 years ago and they say we have the worlds second best water quality.
It took the 3 man crew most of a day in the rain. I turned up just as the sun came out, poor sods.
We did the math adding some tree usefull life & amenity $ value & found it was worth the cost.
Argument is we could plant a lot of new trees for 4K but as we are in bad drought and this area high vandalism it was dig n fix.
The job went well no significant roots or hindrance. A picture shows the slip line coupling in red they cost $800 each. A home water tapping feral is the copper piping and fitting. The picture of cut section 4 inch asbestos water main shows how thick these are. Asbestos? yeah we used this for water mains 30 years ago and they say we have the worlds second best water quality.
It took the 3 man crew most of a day in the rain. I turned up just as the sun came out, poor sods.
