Greetings,

living uphill Chiang Mai, i would like to replace an existing PVC water pipe running through the forest from our water source with a metal one (galvanised steel e.g.)

The PVC pipe tends to break quite easily or it gets chewed by moles and mice or the forest fires damage it.

Total length may be around 150-200 metres.

Does anyone have any recommendations on brand, quality and where to get the pipes?
Online-orders or somewhere in the area of Chiang Mai would be great!

Thank you!

 

Must be a dozen or more suppliers in CM who sell steel water pipes. 

Galvanized Pipes are worst case scenario except you are using bigger Steel Pipes in the underground to protect your PVC Pipes.

Get a  Makro..........bury it  deeper, use hdpe pipe with no joints in, 1 metre deep, also useful for burying lazy workers. 9 years  ago no problems, that galvanized stuff is crap, but if you really wanted  pour concrete over it ( the hdpe)

Go look in the nearest Thaiwatsadu store.

They are the best priced hadware store chain in Thailand for most things. 

Dig deep and dig once 

"bury it  deeper, use hdpe pipe with no joints in, 1 metre deep, also useful for burying lazy workers. 9 years  ago no problems"

 

Why can't you bury them any more if it was ok 9 yrs ago?

 

 

6 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Get a  Makro

 

Surely you mean a backhoe. Even most Thais call it that. 🤔

11 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 

Surely you mean a backhoe. Even most Thais call it that. 🤔

Some may, many don’t, many don’t understand the word backhoe.

Backhoe is what North Americans call a JCB somehow it has slipped into Thai. I suppose in the same way that some Melanesians speak pidgin

1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

Backhoe is what North Americans call a JCB somehow it has slipped into Thai. I suppose in the same way that some Melanesians speak pidgin

Backhoe may well be a common American term, it is more accurate than most.

Macro is the common Thai Term” it is not the correct technical name 

A JCB is a company “Joseph Cyril Bamford Excavators Ltd” a British multinational it is not the correct technical name for the machine it has become the common name based on the colour “yellow” of the machine and the ubiquity of the company products.

There is no general specific name for the bucket digger known by the names Backhoe, Macro, and JCB though Backhoe has the most claim to be correct.

 

The reason for the name backhoe comes from the fact that it started as the attachment for a tractor unit or purpose built machine called a backhoe loader before becoming an independent machine 

 

 

8 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

Macro is the common Thai Term” it is not the correct technical name 

 

Macro is either the incorrect pronunciation or the misunderstanding of a farang.

9 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 

Macro is either the incorrect pronunciation or the misunderstanding of a farang.

It is the way a Thai would say it. Though since it is a transliteration the English spelling of the sound is an approximation, other spellings are available, and other Thai pronunciations are possible.

On 12/2/2023 at 8:42 PM, VocalNeal said:

 

Surely you mean a backhoe. Even most Thais call it that. 🤔

not by me or by farcebook in Thailand https://web.facebook.com/groups/1670996713246917/?_rdc=1&_rdr

 

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On 12/2/2023 at 7:16 PM, GypsyT said:

"bury it  deeper, use hdpe pipe with no joints in, 1 metre deep, also useful for burying lazy workers. 9 years  ago no problems"

 

Why can't you bury them any more if it was ok 9 yrs ago?

 

 

it creates a  labour  shortage  apparently