Just with all the posts on tent pegs etc., I was wondering if there was a standard safe depth at caravan parks that one can drill down to with out hitting water , waste or irrigation pipes.
To hold our heavy duty awning ropes down we use either 300mm or 400mm pegs depending on the soil type. We've never hit anything over many years with tents, camper trailers & our caravan. Only the odd shallow tree root occasionally.
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Electricity is well away, If they have a watering system in place they usually have a sign out to tell you. We saw this at Sandstone WA. the water pipes normally run close to the drain pits.
I use angle iron in sand . Screw in on clay,rock etc with doesn't need to be deeper than 250 -300mm . Angle and rope distance Atleast 45* I have used two ropes and pegs at 45* on windy, sandy areas also .On west Aust . No issues .
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Monday 21st of November 2016 11:58:27 PM
Many years ago, in the fly in/fly out employment playground, if you wanted to dig more than about 300 mm down into the ground, you had to get a permit from the owners representative, to do so
I would assume (but we all know what Fort thought), that the caravan park owners, would not be putting their electrical cables or water pipes, in the area set aside for the caravan annex
The Electricians, and Plumbers, should be able to tell us, what minimum depth the cables and pipes should be buried
There is 170 odd pages of Aus standard for electrical cabling but generally the requirement is 600 mm deep. If not 600 mm deep then it is required to be covered by concrete.
There is a similar document for plumbing as well.
Water sevices are supposed to be 450mm deep from memory bit I can tell you from my experience that many water pipes are not that deep. In my vocation we are required to drill and core holes at times close to existing buildings and many a time a water service is struck and or damaged because its location is just under the surface of the ground. We have clients sign a waver to place the liability back onto them should their property be serviced by water and electrical supply that is not to the current australian standard. Never had to actually test it in court but it does help to cover our a$$. I did see a showground type situation where it appeared that the services did not comply and further enquiries revealed that the work was carried out by local volunteers and not by licenced trades people.
A good indication of shallow services will be stony / rocky ground. We humans are basically lazy when it comes to digging a trench.
Before driving that peg in just have a good look around and probably better still, ask the park manager.
-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 05:44:34 AM
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I had a geyser at Echuca, only using short pegs and couldn't believe I struck the main water pipe (plastic) to the toilets, buried 150mm deep running through the back quarter of the site.
The (new) owner came down and shut it off saying that the whole park had been built "on the cheap" and all piping was aggy plastic and buried shallow.
He said he repairs a pipe once a week, painful......
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Many moons ago I were at the Seymour expo three days with our tent exhibiting no problem till I pulled up a tent peg and up she rises a water spout had a perfect seal till I lifted that peg
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