Re: simple but effective drainage??

Posted by paul on October 14, 2012 at 20:28:17 from (66.44.133.112):

In Reply to: simple but effective drainage?? posted by dave2 on October 14, 2012 at 13:51:01:

'Here' leach field pipe has kinda big holes, real sdrainage pipe would be better, but what you suggest should do a lot.

If you can get your hands on some sort of sub-soiler like the one pictured, you put a bolt & hook on it down low, and you can pull 2 or maybe 3 inch pipe into the ground, less trenching, less visible. Might have to run over a time or 2 in dry runs, to loosen up the ground before the final pipe run.

I've had 10-11 miles of tile drainage put in my farm over the past 4 years, so a little familiar with it. :)

2 feet should help a lot, if you can get 3 feet it will help a lot more. 3-4 foot deep tile will help pull out water from 40-60 feet each side of it; shallower won't go as far.

And you want to try to get the water drained away from before it's wet on the surface. It's hard to describe in a few words here, but your problem starts farther away, before the water shows up on the surface at the low spot. About 1/2 way up the slope is where the water problem is, it just shows up at your low spot. Works better if your drainage can affect that spot where the problem is, rather than just trying to get the little bit of the problem drained.

It's hard to make that make sense, I'd need to talk with my hands to get the idea across. :) Depending on the lay of the land, might get more results running the tile on the top side of your small paddock, would cut the water off from ever flowing down to that bottom side. If you put the tile at the bottom, it's still gonna always flow through your paddock down to where the tile is, so while the tile lets the water flow away - it's still always gonna flow through the paddock first...

--->Paul

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