Here is the first section I dropped. I was able to saw through part of it because it is steel, not cast iron.
It don't all cut so easy, though. Some of it really is cast iron, and the blades could not even crack the surface. But a hammer does. Here is where I stopped, at the other side of the house after removing about 12 to 15 feet of old pipe. The joints were sealed with lead - and the seal is a cylinder about 4" long and about 3/8 of an inch thick. I have to remove one more coupling, an elbow, and another foot or more of pipe that couples with a line that goes down to the sewer. Got any ideas on HOW I can do that? I can't bash all the pipe with a hammer for fear of breaking a seal I can't reach or cracking a piece of pipe I want to keep together.
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