drainage pipe

  1. Laggard

    Drainage prices

    What would be a good price to excavate trench, supply and lay pipe and backfill trench to 1000mm with 80mm plastic pipe 1100mm with 100mm plastic pipe £ Per metre please ?
  2. bankrupt

    2024 Drought thread

    "The UK could have hosepipe bans and water shortages this year despite experiencing the wettest eighteen months on record, experts have warned."...
  3. nxy

    What happened to perennial wheat?

    Some twenty years ago I remember reading how we wouldn't need to plant wheat every year by about now, it would grow back every year they just needed to perfect the breeding. What happened?
  4. Fergie Ploughman

    Legalities around drainage...

    Our property relies on a good flow through a perimeter land drain which runs through a couple of fields, a couple of gardens and then down a private lane, into the grounds of a private country hall/estate and into some ponds. At the halls posh entrance we had trouble with tree roots in the clay...
  5. Derrick Hughes

    Septic Tanks

    Is it OK to discus these on here , must be a lot of farmers who can't connect to a sewer Where do you start to get approval , I assume you need approval to install a drainage field ?
  6. Grassman

    Rappa atv winder tips

    I have never really rigured out the best way to put out a fence with mine. 1. Drive round unreeling wire. Throw posts off whilst travelling. Put corner posts up. Put the reels on the end post. Then walk right round again putting the posts in and wire. Then tension. 2. Drive 50 metres throwing...
  7. E

    DIY gravel cart suggestions required for stoning drainage trenches

    I'm looking to canvas suggestions for a cheap gravel cart type set up for putting stone in drainage trenches. I'm looking to put in some short lengths of drainage pipe by myself to drain some wet holes into the ditches. The lengths of the pipes is unlikely to reach beyond 20m or so, so I'm...
  8. B

    Worst, Best Companies, You Have Had The Misfortune To Deal With?

    As it says, any one care to have a say? Id start the ball, rolling, toyota GB, product quite good, service, attitude, way below average? Now anyone in business, i would think would aim to be above average, but below? Many reasons for me saying that, ive bought 3 new hiluxs over the years, whever...
  9. yellow belly

    if labour win the next election what hope for farmers when labour in power say this

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-67429978
  10. Banana Bar

    Low volume ventilation

    We will be building a new 2500t flat store very shortly. 4.5m storage depth. I need some low volume ventilation and prefer the idea of ducts rather than any type of pedestal, what can you recommend? Thank you BB
  11. Greythundercloudys

    Proposal gas line threw 2 fields. How much.

    Young lady and a man in this morning and it turns out a new gas pipe line is to go threw 2 of my fields. A good distance. Obviously this is the first lv head of it. So very early days but what amount might that be ? So much a metre or what. ?
  12. supercow

    Silage slippage

    We put half of 3rd cut in the pit yesterday, it came In fairly dry everything considered, the pit was pretty high I’d say like 7 sheer grabs deep. It’s slipped basically where the first cut face was, planned to put the rest of 3rd cut ontop, will it be ok?? We’ve had to do it in 2 goes because...
  13. Hilly

    Toys for pigs

    Im needing some toys to keep the BNB pigs entertained , im looking for some bouys off boats such like anyone got anything suitable ??
  14. H

    Large vet bill for putting dog to sleep

    Just received vet bill for having our dog put down. She was having trouble breathing late on at night, I wasn't sure what to do so I phoned the vets out of hours, the first thing they told me was it will be 240 pounds for consultation/emergency to bring her in to the practice ' do you want to...
  15. P

    Close call accident thread?

    There is another thread running onTFF about tragic fatal farm accidents. To try and help farm safety, would it be an idea to have sticky thread entitled “how I nearly had a fatal accident today on the farm”. TFF members can just say what happened and how they are be lucky to be still alive ...
  16. R

    Mill pond not looking good

    So I dug out the 200yr old Mill pond which was simply filled with a build up of leaf/tree debris. Got down to lovely clay. It fills naturally as low in a valley but I now have a small stream fill it too. Nowadays (2 yrs since excavation) its nearly always covered in brown or green algae...
  17. daveydiesel1

    Pumping water uphill without electric or fuel?

    Would like to create a fake stream at the house with a wee straight drop water fall, problem is theres no natural stream, there is 1 at a guess 2-300 feet away at another guess mabe 15 foot lower than where i want it. So is there any way of pumping a decent amount of water mabe a 4 or 6 inch...
  18. Fat hen

    Old drain keeps flooding Yard in deluges

    Want to block/stop a drain from flooding car park. We dug out an area from a woodland for a car park. The ground level of the car park is 5ft below the woodland GL. Halfway up the created perimeter bank we came across a some Georgian drains which drain a sandy soiled woodland. They spill out...
  19. Steevo

    How much drainage stone in a trench please?

    I'm thinking of putting in a 6" twinwall pipe approx 160m in length across a field. Assuming the trench is dug with a 12" excavator bucket.....how much stone would I likely be needing to use please? Depth clearly makes a big difference - I'd be grateful for advice on this please.
  20. mobileweld

    What would make ditch water this colour

    As titled really. I suspect horse muck run off. And if so surely that can’t be right? Or allowed to happen? I appreciate it may be hard to see properly from this photo
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