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A year to show up 120 year + old drainage systems
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<blockquote data-quote="bovrill" data-source="post: 9269469" data-attributes="member: 12758"><p>They call them Napoleonic drains here, supposedly dug by prisoners of war during the the fight against the French. </p><p>But I think any small bore clay pipe gets called that, even early 20th century ones! </p><p>I dug an old ditch out once that a lot of '70s/'80s drains run into (via companion drains <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤬" title="Face with symbols on mouth :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png" data-shortname=":face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" />, whoever dreamt those up to milk the subsidy?) and at about 18" below the bottom of the existing ditch I found a 2" 'Napoleonic' drain, so followed that all the way, and that sorted it out. They knew what they were doing 100+ years ago far better than they did 40 years ago, and without the big machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bovrill, post: 9269469, member: 12758"] They call them Napoleonic drains here, supposedly dug by prisoners of war during the the fight against the French. But I think any small bore clay pipe gets called that, even early 20th century ones! I dug an old ditch out once that a lot of '70s/'80s drains run into (via companion drains 🤬, whoever dreamt those up to milk the subsidy?) and at about 18" below the bottom of the existing ditch I found a 2" 'Napoleonic' drain, so followed that all the way, and that sorted it out. They knew what they were doing 100+ years ago far better than they did 40 years ago, and without the big machines. [/QUOTE]
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