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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 6669998" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I have given up digging down to drains except where we have previously installed sand traps and jetting pits which provide some stability. You are right, it's too wet to open an unsupported hole. These will have to wait.</p><p></p><p>The problem is the contractor laid the header (years ago) a bit flat and it tends to fill with sand and run slow. The laterals then also back up and the junctions tend to get tree roots as its adjacent to a wood. Only jetted it two years ago but this wet spell has really tested it.</p><p></p><p>Hand pulling beet gets very tiresome very quickly. We pulled some fodder beet that got too big for the machine (about 10 tonnes, took a week) where the drill ran out and left them gappy but I presently have 250 tonnes of sugar beet out there that I can't harvest without bogging down. There is time yet. A dry fortnight would probably see the water drain enough even through the slow system but what I don't want is the frost that tends to come with a dry time in winter.</p><p></p><p>Worse things happen at sea and plenty of folks here with hundreds of acres of spuds not lifted and no drilling done so I can't complain. It's just wearing and we could all do with an upturn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 6669998, member: 2119"] I have given up digging down to drains except where we have previously installed sand traps and jetting pits which provide some stability. You are right, it's too wet to open an unsupported hole. These will have to wait. The problem is the contractor laid the header (years ago) a bit flat and it tends to fill with sand and run slow. The laterals then also back up and the junctions tend to get tree roots as its adjacent to a wood. Only jetted it two years ago but this wet spell has really tested it. Hand pulling beet gets very tiresome very quickly. We pulled some fodder beet that got too big for the machine (about 10 tonnes, took a week) where the drill ran out and left them gappy but I presently have 250 tonnes of sugar beet out there that I can't harvest without bogging down. There is time yet. A dry fortnight would probably see the water drain enough even through the slow system but what I don't want is the frost that tends to come with a dry time in winter. Worse things happen at sea and plenty of folks here with hundreds of acres of spuds not lifted and no drilling done so I can't complain. It's just wearing and we could all do with an upturn. [/QUOTE]
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