Chimney Dilemma

[CSCPeter]

Working at a customer's house and she has a 35'-40' masonry chimney that runs inside the house. It is clay-lined with 8" block around it. Someone in the past put single wall stove pipe on the inside to to "line" the chimney, and it has broken down to some full pieces as well as just crap and is in a mess and trapped in the chimney from the base to about 10-15' up the chimney. The cleanout is 8"x8" so not enough to get anything out of it in the size that the lower pieces are in. I have gone with a magnet on a rope from the top and just about had it but it just did not work. We dropped a rope and secured it to the bottom of the pipe but the pipe is now wedged and will not move for any reason. Has anybody ever run into this? Or does anyone have any suggestions?
~A very frustrated Installer

 

[JMF1]

Never had any experience with this but sounds like you need to pull up evenly on the pipe, do you have access to the bottom where you could attach a plate or piece of wood to 2 lines and then pull up evenly? Just an idea.........

 

[struggle]

two hooks on two separate ropes and drop them down and hope to hook the pipe and pull it up. Seems like a tough thing to pull out.