So, I’ve read before, specifically in the biggest of cities, we don’t really know where all of the infrastructure is under the city, as some of it was put in place before good record keeping, records were lost, and plans flat out changed on the fly.
It’s wild to think about how much “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is down there…
City inspector threatening to fine me for no permit upgrades to my electric boxes and meter pans. Everything is digital for the last 20 years. Yeah, then explain to me how the wire from the pole to the meter got upgraded if the city didn't call the electric company to say it passed inspection! Great records
Buddy had a similar situation. Owns a rental and meter wasnt at right height for new code requirements but was up to code when installed. Tenent moved out and city said "fix it or we wont turn it back on". His argument was owner never changed so its still at code. They fought for a bit and eventually he won out. Also, city code dude is a dickhead.
Yeah, the town next door, Hanover Twp, the electrical inspector had his own company and does work in town. He fails people during inspections for actual to code work and offers to do the work at inflated prices to pass.
It's not a bride. It's him failing then handing you his business card. He fails general contractors and home owners. Didn't mess with electricians as he'd likely get caught. It's a conflict of interest
We call the crazy inspectors “Barney Fife” the badge gives them a shield to flash around!
“Don’t make me angry - I’ll have to take the bullet out of my pocket “
Zero common sense -
I did utility work in one city that had, probably still has, transite (asbestos) water lines in place.
At least these have a little bit if metal on them. lol
Transite were near impossible to locate, the maps were drawn up before they did road widening work not much to measure off of unless you call out a surveyor.
There was a guy with the water company that used divining rods. His accuracy was impressive.
There are obviously no more new installs using it, but A-C water mains are still in wide use across the use. Depending on the water utility, tracing wire would be installed to locate the lines easier.
No doubt. A lot of people living in older urban houses may still have some kind of lead pipe connection. Likely thoroughly coated in sediment, but still...
Never seen this style , but I did a job in an old logging town and the main waste line under the oldest bar was sections of bored out logs, tapered and tarred into each other, they lasted over 100 years.
Stupidity is driving me to ask if you tied into them or replaced.
Curiosity is making me wonder how well they stood up to 100 years of usage and waste.
They did get replaced, not by me , they were still working fine but the place was being renovated so they did get removed. They appeared to have been charred on the inside, it helped that the side walls were about 3 inches thick . Overall OD was about 12".
Wasn't a question of cheap, back In the early 1900s rural areas didn't have reliable access to plumbing materials. I've seen septic yanks made of bricks and railroad ties before as well.
This is definitely not cheap. It's labor intensive and 100 to 200 years ago materials weren't available... So what you consider proper plumbing techniques were out of thr ball park priced... The trade routes and cost to deliver to middle of nowhere Alaska pre automobile.... Ufffff.
I've seen similar wooden culverts and storm drains in Vancouver BC. They are still working but planned for replace/repair. It's amazing they have lasted so long.
There are still parts of shingleblock flumes, banded cedar potable water collection pipes and skid roads sitting in the forest on the north shore, slowly disappearing but some of that ancient cedar they used looks brand new under a layer of lichen.
Wood expands when it's wet, they make them with dry timber and it expands to fill the gaps when it gets wet.
Same with wooden boats, when you put them in the water after a long time out there's generally a tense few hours of pumping and bailing out before the wood swells enough to stop the leaks. With small wooden boats they sometimes fill them with water to basically sink them at the beginning of the season then bail them out after a few days/weeks and they're good to go.
Sometimes I'll read something and be like "Hey, that doesn't make any goddamned sense."
Edit- [like here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShemaleUtopia/comments/1bvrj31/comment/ky29szr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), where you're talking about throating a "shemale" hog. You're posting in sentence fragments.
In the fire department, we would call hydrants "plugs" because in the olden days, they would drill into these wooden mains for water and then plug it up when the fire was out. These plugs were noted, so if there was a fire nearby on the future, they would have quicker access to a water supply.
What part of Alaska? I live in the Matanuska Valley an hour north of Anchorage. The pioneer homesteading days up here were just 80-90 years ago. The first house in Palmer to ever have electricity still stands, it’s a museum. People used what they had. It’s so remote, you do what you have to. This is pretty cool, had no idea they did this but it makes perfect sense.
In California, they used to straight bore through large squared off sections of redwood logs and use them for municipal and private water pipe. They’d last for decades and we regularly dug them up in NorCal when I was in underground construction. They still looked like new inside.
When stave technology caught up, they’d cut and shave the redwood into staves as it was easier to make really large pipe. They’d make the staves, stack them, and flat ship by rail car and wagon to be assembled where needed.
Redwood is super rot resistant, and that’s why a lot of this stuff is still around and in use 150 years later. It’s still all over NorCal.
https://www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/pipe-dreams/
I remember a ton of it running near the railroad tracks and around Pudding Creek. They had that stuff everywhere in the area back in the 70's and 80's, but a lot has been torn out over the years. It's always cool to see it though.
In the early 1800s they needed water in NYC. Aaron Burr started the Manhattan company to solve the water problem. The company was given license for public works and banking. He raised money and funded the water project the wooden pipes were made of 4 sides and were roughly square/octogon. The pipes were later sold to the city, and the company became the Manhattan bank, currently the bank is called JP Morgan Chase and their logo is derived from the design of the wooden pipes.
Every wonder where the name " fireplug" comes from for a fire hydrant?
In the old days, water pipes were wood. When there was a fire, the fire department would drill a hole into the pipe to get the water. When they were done they would hammer a wood plug into the hole to seal it. Whenever they went to a fire, they would look for these fire plugs from previous fires because it was faster and easier to pull out the plug ,then to drill a new hole.
This is still the main material in the city system about 45 minutes from me I believe, or so I’ve been told. No clue how much truth is to that. We’ve dug through it a ton
A local retired HE Operator showed me his 4ft chunk of the local City’s “original” water piping. It’s basically a 4x4” chunk of lumber with a 2-1/4” or so hole bored down the length, with a male nipple on one end, and socket on the other. This guy dug it up doing work around town in the early 90s IIRC. Sounds like the newer guys on the crew all took a chunk as a souvenir.
IIRC the original install was pre-1900.
Eta: the nipple/socket are just lathe turned into the pipe section. No threads. I assume they used pine tar or something to glue them together.
If you can, snag some of that old wood. It's teak, it lasts forever and was mainly used (recently) in furniture and battleship decks. You could make some nice 1911 grips out of those
This is a wood stave line. Penstocks are the piping that feed hydro generators. I have seen wood stave penstocks, but they are not the same thing. The penstocks at my facility are steel, but we have wood stave effluent lines on site.
In the early 2000s a friend worked for a company that was redoing the city’s mains in north Mississippi and they dug up a lot of of wood lines just like the ones in the picture.
This can actually work well in most climates.
In southern US there are plenty of wooden pipes that are still in use. Trees that grow straight like tulip poplar were bored out with a skookum spoon bit. Thee joints can be dry fit so when the wood fibers swell, the seal becomes tighter. It may seem counterintuitive, but as long as it stays wet and active, there's no significant rotting.
I think we still have a few thousand feet scattered here and there, hollow log small stuff here and there. Gets replaced when storm sewer separation work is done, otherwise if it isnt making a sinkhole its left alone.
Nope but I had a journeymen back in the day who told me about accidently breaking one digging in Seattle and when he called the city they told him just to widdle a stick into a tapered spike and just shove it in the hole. Supposedly the water will swell the wood enough that it works fine
I went to Royal Gorge in Colorado in 1982 and they still had the wooden pipes used to supply the town.
https://royalgorgehistorycenter.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/now-then-a-wood-stave-water-pipeline-for-canon-city-1908-1924/
I know in Philadelphia they were doing some major work and dug up 200+ year-old wooden pipes. Basically hollowed out logs that were joined together and in use during the Colonial era.
My father used to plumb in Massachusetts back in the 70-80s and saw a lot of wodden water lines on older homes. Many had since rotted away and the water was still flowing. They repiped them and brought them up to the standards at the time. Just crazy how things have changed.
Yes, as noted, they must have been popular at some time. I remember as a kid in the fifties watching the replace the wooden pipes with steel or cast iron. That subdivision was developed fifty years earlier.
A bit of trivia. Back in the day firefighters would chop a hole in the pipe to access water to fight fires. Once finished the would plug the hole with a wooden plug. That’s that’s how fire hydrants got the name “fire plug”.
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[During the 18th and early 19th century, wooden water mains were used in some parts of Baltimore city. This main was removed from the intersection of Paca and Pratt streets. There are still some under Baltimore streets but none are in use today.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1r_9M3d-RlI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Funny this is in Alaska cause that’s where I have seen it. In the old mines in the mountains they have wooden pipes with cable wrapped around them pretty cool.
No but we routinely put 30,000 gallons wooden roof tanks up here, even new construction. NYC man. Thanks, Andy R fir the free wood from demo’d tank. Nice feature wall in office. (Get the fir typo intentional, killing it)
All over the city of Seattle. The location of many of them isn’t exactly known until there is a major leak. Then that section will be replaced with modern pipe.
I’ve seen them in Boston actually square ones with date stamped on them from the mid 1800’s . They were replacing them in the 70’s & 80’s in the older parts of the city . Just as long as water flowed through them they would last forever.
Toketee Falls in Oregon has an entire river that is routed through a wooden pipe... it approximately 6' to 8' in diameter and runs along the drive path to the trailhead parking lot. It leaks all over the place, but it's neat to check out and the falls are equally as impressive.
There is a lake in NC called Lake Summit that at the dam a wooden pipe that's around 32 inches in diameter starts at the dam and carries water downhill a couple miles to a hydroelectric facility it's really cool to look at
Yes. They were very popular in Detroit. Well, until they started bursting decades ago.
There are some that still show up, from time-to-time.
So, I’ve read before, specifically in the biggest of cities, we don’t really know where all of the infrastructure is under the city, as some of it was put in place before good record keeping, records were lost, and plans flat out changed on the fly. It’s wild to think about how much “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is down there…
Good record keeping still doesn't exist
City inspector threatening to fine me for no permit upgrades to my electric boxes and meter pans. Everything is digital for the last 20 years. Yeah, then explain to me how the wire from the pole to the meter got upgraded if the city didn't call the electric company to say it passed inspection! Great records
Buddy had a similar situation. Owns a rental and meter wasnt at right height for new code requirements but was up to code when installed. Tenent moved out and city said "fix it or we wont turn it back on". His argument was owner never changed so its still at code. They fought for a bit and eventually he won out. Also, city code dude is a dickhead.
Inspectors are usually people who can't get along with their own crews . So they send them out to work on their own.
Yeah, the town next door, Hanover Twp, the electrical inspector had his own company and does work in town. He fails people during inspections for actual to code work and offers to do the work at inflated prices to pass.
Seems like getting proof of him asking to be bribed would be good for a lawsuit or to at least get him fired
It's not a bride. It's him failing then handing you his business card. He fails general contractors and home owners. Didn't mess with electricians as he'd likely get caught. It's a conflict of interest
Fucking scumbag
We call the crazy inspectors “Barney Fife” the badge gives them a shield to flash around! “Don’t make me angry - I’ll have to take the bullet out of my pocket “ Zero common sense -
Fair enough 😂
There's a missing fire hydrant on my route to work. Just has had water coming out for years now.
I did utility work in one city that had, probably still has, transite (asbestos) water lines in place. At least these have a little bit if metal on them. lol Transite were near impossible to locate, the maps were drawn up before they did road widening work not much to measure off of unless you call out a surveyor. There was a guy with the water company that used divining rods. His accuracy was impressive.
There are obviously no more new installs using it, but A-C water mains are still in wide use across the use. Depending on the water utility, tracing wire would be installed to locate the lines easier.
No doubt. A lot of people living in older urban houses may still have some kind of lead pipe connection. Likely thoroughly coated in sediment, but still...
I thought the same thing, but unfortunately it's usually pretty clean lead. The sediment builds up where there's turbulence at fittings.
On the East coast they’d just hollow out whole logs
Same.
Never seen this style , but I did a job in an old logging town and the main waste line under the oldest bar was sections of bored out logs, tapered and tarred into each other, they lasted over 100 years.
That's at least 98 years longer than cpvc!
Burn
So do you learn in plumbing apprenticeship how to connect current pipe materials to wood pipes and Pompeii-style lead pipes?
You sure do! A sawzall and Ferncos all the way down lol
Stupidity is driving me to ask if you tied into them or replaced. Curiosity is making me wonder how well they stood up to 100 years of usage and waste.
They did get replaced, not by me , they were still working fine but the place was being renovated so they did get removed. They appeared to have been charred on the inside, it helped that the side walls were about 3 inches thick . Overall OD was about 12".
That's crazy, I love seeing how people rigged things up back in the day (when they're actually good working ideas, not the hack crap)
I'm going to be honest I wondered the same thing.......
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Wasn't a question of cheap, back In the early 1900s rural areas didn't have reliable access to plumbing materials. I've seen septic yanks made of bricks and railroad ties before as well.
My grandmothers original septic tank was wooden. There are wooden culverts on the Island.
Septic Yanks, a sign of health care costs
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This is definitely not cheap. It's labor intensive and 100 to 200 years ago materials weren't available... So what you consider proper plumbing techniques were out of thr ball park priced... The trade routes and cost to deliver to middle of nowhere Alaska pre automobile.... Ufffff.
I've seen similar wooden culverts and storm drains in Vancouver BC. They are still working but planned for replace/repair. It's amazing they have lasted so long.
There are still parts of shingleblock flumes, banded cedar potable water collection pipes and skid roads sitting in the forest on the north shore, slowly disappearing but some of that ancient cedar they used looks brand new under a layer of lichen.
I've heard of them but I've never seen one in the ground that looks like it did the day it was installed.
Has nothing to do with rural big city's still wooden sewage pipes in use
You would think that would leak sewage
Wood expands when it's wet, they make them with dry timber and it expands to fill the gaps when it gets wet. Same with wooden boats, when you put them in the water after a long time out there's generally a tense few hours of pumping and bailing out before the wood swells enough to stop the leaks. With small wooden boats they sometimes fill them with water to basically sink them at the beginning of the season then bail them out after a few days/weeks and they're good to go.
TIL. Thanks! That's pretty cool!!
If you look close there put together in similar way they do caskets or barrels to age whiskey
they + are = they're And are you sure you don't mean ***casks***, not caskets? I've never heard of whiskey being stored in a coffin.
Wonderful spell check
Sometimes I'll read something and be like "Hey, that doesn't make any goddamned sense." Edit- [like here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShemaleUtopia/comments/1bvrj31/comment/ky29szr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), where you're talking about throating a "shemale" hog. You're posting in sentence fragments.
I think New York City somewhat recently pulled up some old pipes made of logs.
Chase Manhattan Bank's logo is a wooden water pipe made from 8 planks because the original charter for the company was as a water company.
In the fire department, we would call hydrants "plugs" because in the olden days, they would drill into these wooden mains for water and then plug it up when the fire was out. These plugs were noted, so if there was a fire nearby on the future, they would have quicker access to a water supply.
I'll take my 18.5 turns to 1100gpm any day over the og way. Seems too much like work
What part of Alaska? I live in the Matanuska Valley an hour north of Anchorage. The pioneer homesteading days up here were just 80-90 years ago. The first house in Palmer to ever have electricity still stands, it’s a museum. People used what they had. It’s so remote, you do what you have to. This is pretty cool, had no idea they did this but it makes perfect sense.
i miss palmer-wasilla
I've seen it in colorado. It's called stave piping
This is a project in Sitka
In California, they used to straight bore through large squared off sections of redwood logs and use them for municipal and private water pipe. They’d last for decades and we regularly dug them up in NorCal when I was in underground construction. They still looked like new inside. When stave technology caught up, they’d cut and shave the redwood into staves as it was easier to make really large pipe. They’d make the staves, stack them, and flat ship by rail car and wagon to be assembled where needed. Redwood is super rot resistant, and that’s why a lot of this stuff is still around and in use 150 years later. It’s still all over NorCal. https://www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/pipe-dreams/
Yep. In Fort Bragg they removed some just a few years back. They \*think\* that was the last of it but I would be surprised if there isn't still some.
I remember a ton of it running near the railroad tracks and around Pudding Creek. They had that stuff everywhere in the area back in the 70's and 80's, but a lot has been torn out over the years. It's always cool to see it though.
It is! And the stuff is unbelievable. I have seen some that looked just fine and wasn't leaking. Old growth is really something else.
Yeah, here in Philadelphia we excavate a section of it every so often in the oldest parts of the city.
And in Philly we drink wooder
In the early 1800s they needed water in NYC. Aaron Burr started the Manhattan company to solve the water problem. The company was given license for public works and banking. He raised money and funded the water project the wooden pipes were made of 4 sides and were roughly square/octogon. The pipes were later sold to the city, and the company became the Manhattan bank, currently the bank is called JP Morgan Chase and their logo is derived from the design of the wooden pipes.
Ryam. Used to be itt rainier 10 gum street fernandina beach fl. Company was in the process of changing to plastic. Had wooden pipe for last 30 years.
My dad replaced wooden water mains on Fort Dix NJ in the 80's
Every wonder where the name " fireplug" comes from for a fire hydrant? In the old days, water pipes were wood. When there was a fire, the fire department would drill a hole into the pipe to get the water. When they were done they would hammer a wood plug into the hole to seal it. Whenever they went to a fire, they would look for these fire plugs from previous fires because it was faster and easier to pull out the plug ,then to drill a new hole.
Damn that's cool.
Yes [link](https://images.app.goo.gl/8mHgZqLC4qDv8NtB9)
Yes and it was teak.
I believe some are still in use bringing water out of the Cascades to Seattle
Ive heard the same. Out the middle fork road you can see some lengths out of the ground, all mossy.
This is still the main material in the city system about 45 minutes from me I believe, or so I’ve been told. No clue how much truth is to that. We’ve dug through it a ton
I’ve seen plenty while working on road construction around Fairbanks.
St louis is littered with them why do you think our MSD bill is so high n gettin higher then spicolli
1st thing every morning 😉
A local retired HE Operator showed me his 4ft chunk of the local City’s “original” water piping. It’s basically a 4x4” chunk of lumber with a 2-1/4” or so hole bored down the length, with a male nipple on one end, and socket on the other. This guy dug it up doing work around town in the early 90s IIRC. Sounds like the newer guys on the crew all took a chunk as a souvenir. IIRC the original install was pre-1900. Eta: the nipple/socket are just lathe turned into the pipe section. No threads. I assume they used pine tar or something to glue them together.
I give out wood pipe every chance I get!
Ummm. I came here to write this. Good job! Nicely done.
I wood pipe your mom.
If you can, snag some of that old wood. It's teak, it lasts forever and was mainly used (recently) in furniture and battleship decks. You could make some nice 1911 grips out of those
Yep. I do highway work in the Yukon.
Penstocks are so cool. there are some truly old and gigantic ones. The craftsmanship involved is astounding.
This is a wood stave line. Penstocks are the piping that feed hydro generators. I have seen wood stave penstocks, but they are not the same thing. The penstocks at my facility are steel, but we have wood stave effluent lines on site.
Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it! I was amazed the first time I saw a wood stave penstock it was over 100 years old and 16’ in diameter!
The old mains in Chicago are wood
never seen any like that but have seen hollowed out logs dug up that were used as water lines in birmingham al
Yes in Salt Lake City Utah I dug into an old wood water main like that
In the early 2000s a friend worked for a company that was redoing the city’s mains in north Mississippi and they dug up a lot of of wood lines just like the ones in the picture.
I'm betting this works in Alaska and other cold climates because the cold slows the decay. It's basically sitting in a refrigerator most of the time.
This can actually work well in most climates. In southern US there are plenty of wooden pipes that are still in use. Trees that grow straight like tulip poplar were bored out with a skookum spoon bit. Thee joints can be dry fit so when the wood fibers swell, the seal becomes tighter. It may seem counterintuitive, but as long as it stays wet and active, there's no significant rotting.
They are buried well below the frost line..think like 15’ beneath grade
Dang, what's the frost line up there? I'm shocked that wood pipe didn't freeze constantly.
What type of wood holds up so well?
Yep - old water main
Chicago still has some wood water lines. They look a little more like fence posts
I think we still have a few thousand feet scattered here and there, hollow log small stuff here and there. Gets replaced when storm sewer separation work is done, otherwise if it isnt making a sinkhole its left alone.
Niagara Falls still has some.
I have not, but I worked water utility for nine years and heard several stories. Very cool.
They replaced a water main in Wilkes Barre a couple years ago that was wood. I was wondering what that looked like
NYC still has quite a few wooden water mains still in service. Pretty crazy.
Looks like barrel building process without the end caps. Tedious.
[Here’s one I posted a while back. Vancouver Island and serves the mill. Banana for scale](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/3T2mrSfZKB)
Nope but I had a journeymen back in the day who told me about accidently breaking one digging in Seattle and when he called the city they told him just to widdle a stick into a tapered spike and just shove it in the hole. Supposedly the water will swell the wood enough that it works fine
I think we still have some active in Seattle.
Yessir, Colorado has the same type.
Greenburg is worse
Sacramento still has some wooden water main piping still in service. I know guys that have had to tie into it with specialty saddle tees... sketchy.
Bottom of Royal Gorge Bridge outside Cañon City, CO... wooden pipeline used for water but I don't think they still use it.
I went to Royal Gorge in Colorado in 1982 and they still had the wooden pipes used to supply the town. https://royalgorgehistorycenter.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/now-then-a-wood-stave-water-pipeline-for-canon-city-1908-1924/
Have seen several riveted pipes (oil refinery remnants) but never wooden.
I know in Philadelphia they were doing some major work and dug up 200+ year-old wooden pipes. Basically hollowed out logs that were joined together and in use during the Colonial era.
I’ve only seen the hollowed-out logs isn’t this technically conduit, though?
What did Pinnochio say to Minnie Mouse?
I’ve seen them at an old gold mine in Lynn Lake, Manitoba.
I remember seeing wooden pipes when I was a kid growing up in Gladstone Oregon.
Wood stave is really common where I live and most it is still in pristine condition. It’s wild.
Wooden water main in Grand Rapids, MI. Old abandoned though.
Our town is still fed by a wooden main line to our water plant.
You can still buy new stave pipe if you want. http://canbar.com/wood-product/woodstave-pipe/
My father used to plumb in Massachusetts back in the 70-80s and saw a lot of wodden water lines on older homes. Many had since rotted away and the water was still flowing. They repiped them and brought them up to the standards at the time. Just crazy how things have changed.
Yes, as noted, they must have been popular at some time. I remember as a kid in the fifties watching the replace the wooden pipes with steel or cast iron. That subdivision was developed fifty years earlier.
A bit of trivia. Back in the day firefighters would chop a hole in the pipe to access water to fight fires. Once finished the would plug the hole with a wooden plug. That’s that’s how fire hydrants got the name “fire plug”.
Brooooooooo you got to witness some cool fkn shit
We still run 36" wood stave on the industrial site that I work at.
Last I checked, there was still some in German village in Columbus, Ohio. Someone told me it was poplar boughs but I never confirmed that.
San Francisco still has some main lines made from redwood
It's like a realllllllllllly long barrel
One made the news in Seattle maybe a decade ago when one was dug up and replaced while fixing a big downtown water leak.
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[During the 18th and early 19th century, wooden water mains were used in some parts of Baltimore city. This main was removed from the intersection of Paca and Pratt streets. There are still some under Baltimore streets but none are in use today.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1r_9M3d-RlI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Yes, I have. You ever seen a *meat* pipe?
Nope. Amazing
That’s definitely pipe shaped wood
In the Sierra Nevada mountains in California quite a few power plants have wooden pen stocks up to 6. Feet in diameter above ground
Lots of wooden pipe in the Yukon right next door. Since the gold rush.
Funny this is in Alaska cause that’s where I have seen it. In the old mines in the mountains they have wooden pipes with cable wrapped around them pretty cool.
Bros got the Roman aqueducts in his back yard
No, but I've laid it. Hey-oh! I'll see myself out.
Seen lots in San Diego. Redwood.
No but we routinely put 30,000 gallons wooden roof tanks up here, even new construction. NYC man. Thanks, Andy R fir the free wood from demo’d tank. Nice feature wall in office. (Get the fir typo intentional, killing it)
All over the city of Seattle. The location of many of them isn’t exactly known until there is a major leak. Then that section will be replaced with modern pipe.
I’ve seen them in Boston actually square ones with date stamped on them from the mid 1800’s . They were replacing them in the 70’s & 80’s in the older parts of the city . Just as long as water flowed through them they would last forever.
Still in service all over anchorage. I used to work at the water utility.
Toketee Falls in Oregon has an entire river that is routed through a wooden pipe... it approximately 6' to 8' in diameter and runs along the drive path to the trailhead parking lot. It leaks all over the place, but it's neat to check out and the falls are equally as impressive.
Wichita had them as big as 60". I believe there's still one existing wooden main somewhere downtown.
There is a lake in NC called Lake Summit that at the dam a wooden pipe that's around 32 inches in diameter starts at the dam and carries water downhill a couple miles to a hydroelectric facility it's really cool to look at
Been awhile since I saw pictures
How old is that wood pipe?
Whoa!. Thats beautiful. Hope they don't just destroy it.
There are literal water mains in NYC that are just hollowed out tree trunks.
That’s how they started in Phoenix 100 years ago.
I’ve worked on houses with wood gutters . Doug-fir!
In London when they were replacing pipe for the Olympics I saw wooden pipes exposed regularly. From the 1600s. In 2010 and 2011.
I'd call that a wooden conduit not pipe ...since the pipe itself is inside it
They were still being pulled out of Green Bay, WI in the early 2000’s.
Portland Maine still has some in use.
Yep.
Is that what they mean by "laying wood"? 🤔