Invisible pipe steals the show

An invisible pipe has been drawing crowds at Fieldays for years now but it never ceases to amaze people.

Many theories have gone around this year about how the top of the pipe floats in mid-air.

Kathy Howard from Rotorua is at Fieldays for the first time this year and believes she’s solved the mystery.

“There’s a pump at the bottom that pushes the water up and the silver pipe on top pushes the water back down.”

Eleven year old Freddie Leach from Cambridge thinks there’s a pipe in the middle of the water, his friend Henri Fromont, also 11, didn’t know how it worked but thought it was “pretty cool”.

The business behind the excitement is Morinsville based Pump and Pipeline Limited, run by Lisa and Paul Skiffington.

They say the display isn’t used in real life, but it gets people looking their way because they don’t know how it works.

“The best comment we’ve had about it was when a man came up to us and told us he wouldn’t be able to sleep that night if we didn’t tell him how it worked,” said Lisa.

Paul and Lisa are tight-lipped though about how it really does work.

“We can’t disclose that information, it’s a secret,” Paul said. “Magic.”