8 inch Corrugated Drainage Piping

[Sebes]

I checked Home Depot, Lowes, called several stores, a couple golf courses....and still no luck finding my tube for my pole vault bag. Somebody help.

Thanks,

Sebes

[achtungpv]

Home Depot & Lowe's both carry it regardless of what they told you...it's very commonly used for landscaping projects. Just go by and look. If it's not with the PVC pipe it's outside with the landscaping supplies. You don't want that kind though, it'll rip the tape off your poles unless you put each pole in a sock or something to that effect. You want lined corrugated drainage pipe which is harder to find. You'll have to call places that supply culverts and road construction materials since it's commonly used for those type of projects. If you don't know, just call your city's street and bridge office and ask them for a local source. There may be other suppliers...

[rainbowgirl28]

They only had 10' sections of it at the Home Depot and Lowe's around here, and I really don't want to splice two pieces together.

I'm having the same problem Sebes is having, except I need to find about 60' worth between the four of us on the team who need tubing.

[achtungpv]

They make a sleeve that locks the two 10' sections together. They're in a bin right there with the pipe. Like 6 bucks a piece.

[Darth Vaulter]

I used the black corrugated tubing for a couple of seasons and if it isn't lined (and mine wasn't) it puts black marks all over the poles in addition to being hard on the tape.

This year I went to Home Depot and picked up three 10' sections of 6" white, thin-walled PVC drain pipe without the drain holes. They have it in the same aisle as the thicker plumbing grade PVC. You can cut one of the three pipes in half and make two 15' pole tubes. Back out in the landscaping area you can find end caps that fit this size tube. I glued mine in place on one end with squeeze tube latex adhesive (not the smelly PVC glue). On the other end, I glued an end cap with a screw-in cover. I needed to take one of the end caps like the one glued in place on the other end and cut off the closed end to make an adaptor ring so that the plumbing fitting would fit securely on this thinner-walled drainage tube. Each tube can hold up to four poles with plugs in place and could probably hold five without plugs.

Finally, (and this may be of use even if you go the black corrugated route) Home Depot sells 100' rolls of white nylon landscaping fabric that is a sleeve. I cut it in 12' to 15' lengths and close one end with a zip tie to make absolutely perfect pole sleeves. The fabric is very slippery so the poles slip into the sleeves easily and slide in and out of the tubes the same way.

Good Luck.

[Russ]

Just last weekend I went to Home Depot and got a bunch of drainage tubing in 10' sections. I cut and spliced pieces together with duct tape and I was able to fit 2 sections side-by-side into the large pole bags, and one section into the small pole bags.

I'm delighted with the results. It protects the poles, but it's not as heavy as putting the original tubes into the pole bags. I'd recommend it.

I'm not ordinarily a very handy person, but the splicing and taping was very simple.

[master]

Finally, (and this may be of use even if you go the black corrugated route) Home Depot sells 100' rolls of white nylon landscaping fabric that is a sleeve.

Are you saying this is already a sleeve? What is it normally used for? Sounds like it would be useful but I've never seen it.

- master

[1yeldud1]

Russ could you be more specific as to the "surgery" that you did on the tubes ????? Thanks Also what about these "Sleeves" anybody know anything about this item ????

[master]

Also what about these "Sleeves" anybody know anything about this item ????

I searched the web and found some sleeved material used around a perforated drainage pipe. I think that is what was being referred to. I haven't been to Home Depot yet to see if they carry it. This may not be it, but it is what I am talking about. http://www.carriff.com/Products/drain-sleeve.htm

[Darth Vaulter]

Master, it is indeed sleeve material that goes around drainage tubing. It costs $19.99 for a 100' roll if I remember correctly. It stretches to fit around the drainage tube so there isn't alot of excess material when you use it as a single pole sleeve and, as I mentioned in my initial post, it is quite slinky and slides on and off the pole easily as well as into the pole tube. I found it out in the garden department in the same area as the connections for the drainage tubing.

[Darth Vaulter]

I think Home Depot also carries a fitting for splicing pieces of the corrugated tubing together.

[OUvaulterUSAF]

8 inch tube, is that an 8 inch diameter? If so that is huge, I'm not sure a standard pole bag could fit it.