[can-talk] CHINESE WATER PIPE

Strangely I have only recently heard about this for the first time myself. I recently went to the Steam, Oil and Kerosene Weekend at the Campbelltown Steam and Machinery Museum at Menangle. One of the members of the organisation (and I'm afraid I cannot remember who) was telling me that the land that is now the site of the museum used to be a Chinese market garden, and that every so often bits of these wooden irrigation pipes have been dug up on the site.

If this is of interest, the museum's contact email is big-trev at bigpond.com

Alison Wain

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> Has anyone come across examples of or the use of timber 
> (possibly bamboo)
> water pipes by Chinese market gardeners? An example in the 
> Charters Towers
> museum intrigued me during a recent review of the collections. 
> The pipe is 3
> metres long, id 100mm ext diam 135 mm, with male/female 
> connections at the
> ends. It is in four quarter round pieces that were abutted and 
> apparentlybound when in use. 
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