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Battling the reeds with goats and ancient land drains. Any interest, experience or advice?
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<blockquote data-quote="LKSF" data-source="post: 7953885" data-attributes="member: 156301"><p>Thanks for the replies, I can see that forming a fence over the worst effected areas for them to concentrate on sounds like a good plan, along with somewhere to sleep and get out of the rain.</p><p>Whilst there is no doubt poor drainage causes these things, they also grow well in other drier areas, we even had a big rash of them on top of a hill. Some of the drainage ditches are open, these things move in and choke them up. Much of the increase is due to it being warmer and wetter these days.</p><p></p><p>So drainage ditches. </p><p>Well we have a series of what are known as 'Soughs' running under the fields. If you can imagine a deep trench with a stone bottom, small dry stone wall up either side and a stone cap on top then that's all they are. As you can imagine they were laid a heck of a long time ago and are still working well today. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012369[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012370[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012371[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Just an older and much more labour intensive version of the modern perforated pipe. So far i've only found one blockage and it was a modern pipe. It was too small (at 3") to take the water at max flow and had silted up inside. I unblocked it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012374[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012375[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That had caused this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012376[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>When I unblocked it it started to drain straight away:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012378[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>But it'll get a bigger pipe now unless there is a blocked sough there I can repair.</p><p>That's the worst field, the others aren't anywhere near as bad. I'm going through it finding all the soughs, making sure they are flowing and then if needed i'll put some plastic land drain in the problem areas and connect it up to these existing soughs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LKSF, post: 7953885, member: 156301"] Thanks for the replies, I can see that forming a fence over the worst effected areas for them to concentrate on sounds like a good plan, along with somewhere to sleep and get out of the rain. Whilst there is no doubt poor drainage causes these things, they also grow well in other drier areas, we even had a big rash of them on top of a hill. Some of the drainage ditches are open, these things move in and choke them up. Much of the increase is due to it being warmer and wetter these days. So drainage ditches. Well we have a series of what are known as 'Soughs' running under the fields. If you can imagine a deep trench with a stone bottom, small dry stone wall up either side and a stone cap on top then that's all they are. As you can imagine they were laid a heck of a long time ago and are still working well today. [ATTACH type="full"]1012369[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]1012370[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]1012371[/ATTACH] Just an older and much more labour intensive version of the modern perforated pipe. So far i've only found one blockage and it was a modern pipe. It was too small (at 3") to take the water at max flow and had silted up inside. I unblocked it. [ATTACH type="full"]1012374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]1012375[/ATTACH] That had caused this: [ATTACH type="full"]1012376[/ATTACH] When I unblocked it it started to drain straight away: [ATTACH type="full"]1012378[/ATTACH] But it'll get a bigger pipe now unless there is a blocked sough there I can repair. That's the worst field, the others aren't anywhere near as bad. I'm going through it finding all the soughs, making sure they are flowing and then if needed i'll put some plastic land drain in the problem areas and connect it up to these existing soughs. [/QUOTE]
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