For anyone that has ran PVC pipe in a ditch they know that it is a very difficult job if you need to cut the pipe after it is in the ditch. This is especially so if it has already been glued together. The ditch is normally no wider than a backhoe bucket or a trencher blade. This leaves very little working room to get any type of saw down in the ditch to cut the pipe.
There is a fairly simple solution to this problem though. You just need a few pieces of string about 4 feet long. Work the string under the PVC pipe and grab the other end where you have each end of the string coming up on each side of the pipe.
It is best if you wrap the string around each hand a few times to get a nice grip on it, then just start working the string back and forth with your hands alternating and pulling the string. Left hand pulling the string up then the right hand.
Once you have a cutting groove started just make sure that your string remains in that cutting groove. The friction of the string moving back and forth will burn right through the PVC pipe. It will also burn your string into so it may take several pieces of string to get the pipe cut into.
This method will work for any size of PVC pipe. Although it is not a real fast cut but it works much better than trying to cut it with a saw down in the ditch with you.
