tunnelling under sidewalk; how to do it?

All of the above is not true everywhere!

Our sidewalks are not the city's and the strip between the sidewalk and the street also is not city property! (In fact five feet of the street are mine!)

Sorry...the city doesn't own the sidewalks. I wish they DID! I could have saved a few hundred dollars this year in sidewalk repairs.

They only have an easement on the land.

That's not necessarily true. It depends on where the sidewalk is.

The city generally has an easement from the centerline of the street to so many feet on either side of that centerline. We have a few areas in our city where the front lawn is 100' or so long. The sidewalks are up near the houses...quite a ways from the street. The city doesn't have an easement all the way up to the sidewalk...only a few feet from the centerline of the street.

It is city property...to the extent that they have control of it. But you still need to cut the grass out there...and shovel and repair the sidewalks near the street.

Wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving season...

Trent

they like to call it a running track. don't forget to wear your helmet Artie boy!

Is see you picked "another" usual name. everyone hates a "Bill".

Nope, and even if he had, they would have just replaced it and probably fined him for it as well. And since it's all done at taxpayer expense...

The homeowner and they'll come out and fine you for not doing it too.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.comic (TOM KAN PA) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m23.aol.com:

Treelawn.

Boulevard

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I'm like the "majority of Americans" . From

Jim

No. Boulevard is a divide drive. He's looking for what we used to call a "parkway".

you should be ducking under the sidewalk with a face like that!

ever hear of erosion dumbfuck.

"William W. Plummer" wrote in news:FcHyb.273223$275.967319@attbi_s53:

It's known as an easement

I didn't see any earlier posts on this but, if your ground is not to rocky you can drive a pipe under it. dig trench leading up to your tunnel 1/2 again wider than the sidewalk and leave yourself a cushion under the slabs and drive a pipe larger than you need so you can use it as a conduit. if the ground is a little rocky use a blunt end cap if not point the tip.

Of course they drive easier using a hoe but you can jack them under as well. WE use the same methods to run utilities under roadways.

Good Luck, tHAT

I think there's a tool that uses water to wash away the dirt as you force the pipe through.

They do have something similar to a pressure washer that cuts the material in front of it. It makes for an extremely messy excavation on a small scale. and also erodes a lot of material. The results are not that great in areas that experience ground frost and heaves. You can pump a grout/slurry back in to fill the unnecessary voids.

tHAT

Try a powerwasher