I was watching a show called Modern Marvels. It showed wooden pipes from long ago. It also showed wooden pilings being driven for New Orleans. Wooden pilings have been holding Venice, Italy up for hundreds of years.
Anyhow, a couple links if anyone is interested.
When I moved to my neighborhood, there was still the remains of an old steel rod wrapped wood pipe visible along one of my jogging paths. I was probably 1 ft. ID, wrapped with 1/4" steel at about 4" of pipe per wrap.
I love Modern Marvels. Missed this episode though. Thanks for the interesting links.
Looks like Ancient Aliens replaced Modern Marvels.
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