Most pro installers use infiltrators or their polyethylene bead cousins. The reason is the enormous savings in labor over using rock. Whether you use a pro or do it yourself you will not save money with these products. But using them is a LOT less work.
I dug my own septic system back in 2002. I used traditional 1.5 inch drain rock both because I wanted to farm over the top of the system and I feared the many gophers and ground squirrels would invade and inhabit the hollow infiltrators in the bottom two trenches in my serial system. (Code required more capacity than I would likely ever use.) I thought handling rock would be no problem because I'd recently bought a backhoe.
Boy, was I wrong! An inexperienced operator cannot achieve the proper grade with the backhoe alone. Drain rock is one of the hardest materials to move with hand tools, especially the big stuff I was using. A shovel just bounces off.
I can remember reflecting upon the meaning of the words "idiot stick" as I hand shoveled 3000 pounds of rock back into the loader bucket in the hot August sun. (I'd slipped with the machine and dumped too much at the end of a trench.)
The county health inspector was really impressed with my system (after I'd spent almost a month building it). He said hardly anyone used rock any more. I had, by that time, painfully learned the reason for this.
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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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