Advice - solution for bridging ditch for access

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MF35

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Location

Hampshire

• Jan 8, 2017

• #1

Dear Forum members, I am trying to find the most cost effective solution to bridging a field ditch to facilitate access by vehicles under 3.5 tons realistically. Any practical recommendations appreciated ? One side is slightly higher than the other.

Always admire the ingenuity and helpfulness on this site to find solutions.

thanks.

 

Kevtherev

Member

✓

Location

Welshpool Powys

• Jan 8, 2017

• #2

Picture?
Can you use concrete pipes and build up with hardcore on the low side??

 

bovrill

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

East Essexshire

• Jan 8, 2017

• #3

I'm just about to do a similar job. I'm going to get a 20' length of 300mm twinwall pipe to put in the bottom (that'll be the expensive bit), then I've got some massive lumps of WW2 concrete I dug out of a mound last year which I'll lay at the edges, effectively as kerbs, bridging the ditch, then fill with any clay/dirt I've got to hand.
I could put some crush concrete on the top, but it's from one field to another, so I don't think I'll bother.

My ditch is 6'+ deep, and 10'+ across the top, and the lumps of concrete are I think the foundation edges of a Nissen hut, which I've broken up into lengths I can pick up with the loader, probably two to three tons each.
I wouldn't calculate yours for 3.5t loading, go big, you won't regret it when you have to take something bigger in one day.

 

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mo!

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

York

• Jan 8, 2017

• #4

As above, pipe it in with sloping sides of earth. We did it between two fields, I reckon it paid for itself in one year.

 

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Paul E

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Location

Boggy.

• Jan 8, 2017

• #5

Well somebody had to say it !

 

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glasshouse

Member

Location

lothians

• Jan 8, 2017

• #6

Temp or permanent?

 

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Turra farmer

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Jan 8, 2017

• #7

2 scrap I beams

 

Matt L

Member

Trade

Location

Suffolk

• Jan 8, 2017

• #8

Twinwall of appropriate size for the catchment and ditch size. Then backfill with suitable material and top with type one. Twinwall will be the most costly part.
Make sure you clean the ditch out properly first or the culvert will be in at the wrong depth when you do get the ditch cleaned.

 

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renewablejohn

Member

Location

lancs

• Jan 9, 2017

• #9

Shipping container flat

 

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Power Harrow Pilot

Member

Location

East Yorkshire

• Jan 9, 2017

• #10

Replacing similar here, could I use a concrete panel for the sides? Don't want too long a pipe in bottom of dyke??

 

RobFZS

Member

• Jan 9, 2017

• #11

decent twinwall pipe, some nice stone to cover it and then a load of rubble, then whatever you need to level the top off, we have concrete sleepers over ours.

 

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Lincsman

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Jan 9, 2017

• #12

Power Harrow Pilot said:

Replacing similar here, could I use a concrete panel for the sides? Don't want too long a pipe in bottom of dyke??

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Better and cheaper to use a drymix in sandbags.

 

Davey

Member

Location

Derbyshire

• Jan 9, 2017

• #13

Could you bridge it with an old lorry trailer? Take the axles and gubbins off first and dig it into the bank either side and you'd be none the wiser.

 

Matt L

Member

Trade

Location

Suffolk

• Jan 9, 2017

• #14

More hassle then its worth doing that really though

 

Kingofgrass

Member

• Jan 9, 2017

• #15

Pipe then sleepers then 12ft and 13ft gate

 

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Derky

Member

Location

Bucks/oxon

• Jan 10, 2017

• #16

20ft flat rack shipping container.

 

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MF35

Member

Location

Hampshire

• Jan 14, 2017

• #17

As ever, some excellent ideas and practical advice by way of response. Thanks to all for your contribution. Now need to decide the route subject to what I can find from the various potential shopping list items suggested.

 

Bobthebuilder

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Jan 16, 2017

• #18

MF35 said:

As ever, some excellent ideas and practical advice by way of response. Thanks to all for your contribution. Now need to decide the route subject to what I can find from the various potential shopping list items suggested.

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What's your location? As I know a local farmer/ haulier of concrete pipes often has odd sizes going cheap

 

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MF35

Member

Location

Hampshire

• Jan 16, 2017

• #19

Bobthebuilder said:

What's your location? As I know a local farmer/ haulier of concrete pipes often has odd sizes going cheap

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Thank you for that. I am near Romsey in Hampshire.

 

Massey675

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Bristol

• Jan 30, 2017

• #20

The way we done it on a field is metal girders across the ditch with railway sleepers fitted into the girders 20 odd years on its still with stood flooding and years of abuse.