[GWN7]

You could have pushed the snake thru the blockage.

I bought a commercial machine a couple years ago because of the 60' Elm I my yard who's roots were blocking the line. It would happen every couple years and usually on a Sunday. What I paid for the machine I recouped in 4 years. Plus my neibour borrowed it along with my son to do their drains.

A buddy says his drain is backing up. So I load the machine up and take it over to his place. I start auguring and push it out the full 75' with no change in the draining. I do this a couple times and can't figure out what's up. Run the water and it slowly backs up to come out the floor drain.

He ends up calling a rotor rooter type guy for $175. The pro tells him the blockage (terry towel cloth threads) was 10' from the floor opening and he said I probably pushed the cutter head thru the blockage and never felt it.