Found a drain!

Punch

Member

Location

Warwickshire

• Jan 9, 2020

• #1

We’ve found a drain that takes water from a ditch and don’t where it goes!
We’ve recently acquired some drainage maps for this land and although it’s plastic pipe its not shown.
There is a headwall 350m the other side of a main road that seems to be inline.
What’s best to put down to check it is same drain.
Amongst us we’ve had suggestions of food colouring to fairy liquid!
The headwall has old pipe emerging from it.

 

mar

Member

Location

Ulster (Rep of Irl)

• Jan 9, 2020

• #2

Greedy said:

We’ve found a drain that takes water from a ditch and don’t where it goes!
We’ve recently acquired some drainage maps for this land and although it’s plastic pipe its not shown.
There is a headwall 350m the other side of a main road that seems to be inline.
What’s best to put down to check it is same drain.
Amongst us we’ve had suggestions of food colouring to fairy liquid!
The headwall has old pipe emerging from it.

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You get dye to put in the water, your local builders providers might have it. If not let me know and I might be able to find out a company or Rep that supplies it.

 

Spencer

Member

Location

North West

• Jan 9, 2020

• #3

Milk is as good as anything.. and easy to source

 

Oat

Member

Location

Cheshire

• Jan 9, 2020

• #4

Spencer said:

Milk is as good as anything.. and easy to source

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try propzamide or metaldehyde........only joking, please don't

 

Highland Mule

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Jan 9, 2020

• #5

Spencer said:

Milk is as good as anything.. and easy to source

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Tends not to be appreciated by the fish though, I think? From memory the coloured tracer is called fluorosene and should be available from most builders’ merchants.

 

Brisel

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Jan 9, 2020

• #6

Spencer said:

Milk is as good as anything.. and easy to source

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Please don't use milk. It has a Biological Oxygen Demand 10x that of raw sewage.

 

nails

Member

Location

East Dorset

• Jan 9, 2020

• #7

Cochineal is what to use.

 

A1an

Member

• Jan 9, 2020

• #8

Tracing die.

 

neilo

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Montgomeryshire

• Jan 9, 2020

• #9

A tin of the cheapest white emulsion (water based) paint you can find?

 

puppet

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

sw scotland

• Jan 9, 2020

• #10

Is the water getting away?
Where does it go?
Who cares?

 

PSQ

Member

Arable Farmer

• Jan 9, 2020

• #11

A tea spoon of 'Rothenberger dye', from the plumbers merchant, bright fluorescent green.

 

A1an

Member

• Jan 9, 2020

• #12

Bailey 3589 Drain Tracing Dye - Green https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0041SUDHW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9k0fEbE0HR6EX

 

Paddington

Member

Location

Soggy Shropshire

• Jan 9, 2020

• #13

Pooh sticks !

 

milkloss

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Jan 9, 2020

• #14

A mug full of dye (you might get away with less) which is available from most builders merchants. I've tried this and the colour of the dye never showed up despite predicting the correct outlet.

 

onesiedale

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Derbyshire

• Jan 9, 2020

• #15

Seen it done using white emulsion paint. Very little needed.

 

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Lazy Eric

Member

• Jan 9, 2020

• #16

Tup raddle powder is very effective:

 

Spencer

Member

Location

North West

• Jan 9, 2020

• #17

Brisel said:

Please don't use milk. It has a Biological Oxygen Demand 10x that of raw sewage.

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Well I never knew that...

 

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som farmer

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

somerset

• Jan 9, 2020

• #18

had trouble with a soak-a-way in a cottage, a neighbour was getting very worked up, council chap put it down our drain, nothing showed up, she was still ranting, so council put some down her drain...…… she never apologised, but she did moan about the cost of a new system !
slightly different, as we have had heavy rainfall this autumn, which has been giving us hassle with surface run-off, a small hole appeared in 1 field, taking a large amount of water, must be an old drain, can't see where it runs to, on an old hedge line, hedge went late 60's ? been regulary ploughed, but this is the first inclination of a drain, and it doesn't run to the nearest ditch ! When crop is cut in may, we will have to explore, is interesting though, and, with the rain we have had, very welcome !

 

Dry Rot

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Jan 9, 2020

• #19

som farmer said:

had trouble with a soak-a-way in a cottage, a neighbour was getting very worked up, council chap put it down our drain, nothing showed up, she was still ranting, so council put some down her drain...…… she never apologised, but she did moan about the cost of a new system !
slightly different, as we have had heavy rainfall this autumn, which has been giving us hassle with surface run-off, a small hole appeared in 1 field, taking a large amount of water, must be an old drain, can't see where it runs to, on an old hedge line, hedge went late 60's ? been regulary ploughed, but this is the first inclination of a drain, and it doesn't run to the nearest ditch ! When crop is cut in may, we will have to explore, is interesting though, and, with the rain we have had, very welcome !

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My uncle's tractor fell in a large hole like that on the family farm in Devon. It turned out to be a neolithic (?) grain store. Apparently, they just used to dig a large hole for storing grain. The build up of carbon dioxide acted as a preservative. Sorry, that's all I know!

Prehistoric storage pits - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

Farmer_Joe

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

The North

• Jan 9, 2020

• #20

https://www.toolstation.com/search?q=DRAIN DYE

Its not rocket science the proper stuff is super cheap and very effective.