40 years is a long time- you need to pump it. Some non-digestable stuff goes in, no matter how careful you are- dirt in mop water poured down the toilet or drain, dirty water and grease from the clothes washer, bits of plastic, dirt from washing vegetables in the sink, etc. It may take a long time, but it will eventually fill the septic tank, and once it does, the sludge will fill your drainfield and you get to put in a new system to the tune of 10 grand or so. Someone said below that if it is working correctly, you won't have any sludge. Not so- there are some things that the bugs just can't eat.
We hadn't pumped ours for 15 years, and when we did so, he found that the concrete baffle that keeps solids out of the drainfield was failing- he made a new one out of PVC, and we're good to go. But he said we were probably a couple of years from getting solids into the drainfield and ruining it. You used to be able to just dig a new drainfield, but not so in most places anymore- so be real careful you don't let it get ruined.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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