Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing faulty or damaged pipe from beneath an earthfill such as a roadway or the like and simultaneously replacing the faulty pipe with a length of new pipe, the invention allows rapid and economic replacement and/or repair of old or damaged plastic or metal piping such as is used as conduits in rural water supply systems and the like. The apparatus includes a length of steel cable having a free end which is pushed through a section of pipe being removed and replaced, the other end of the cable having a threaded adaptor fixed thereto and which is smaller in diameter than the inner diameter of the smallest pipe which would be removed according to the invention.