draining ,ditching & jetting lets get this water flowing

[Derrick Hughes]

Can anyone tell me how.........when you dig out an old stone drain, put a pipe in and backfill with clean stone and then put what you dig out back over the top......you are left with such an indent the length of the drain after it has settled then year after?

Mix bucket of sand with bucket of gravel and gravel on its own . Do you have the same volume . Will theb sand mix fill 2 buckets
You are mixing the old stone with the soil so could be reducing the volume by nearly half especially if its biggish stone

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[Macsky]

Mix bucket of sand with bucket of gravel and gravel on its own . Do you have the same volume . Will theb sand mix fill 2 buckets
You are mixing the old stone with the soil so could be reducing the volume by nearly half especially if its biggish stone

Every day is a school day for those who was over educated [emoji23]

I would have though that the void created by the new pipe plus the extra stone would have more than compensated for that tho.

 

[Guleesh]

I would have though that the void created by the new pipe plus the extra stone would have more than compensated for that tho.

Surely it's mostly what's lost into the grass, The same when digging strainer holes, in longer grass you're scraping about trying to get something to backfill although you've filled most of the hole with a strainer and stones.

 

[Macsky]

Surely it's mostly what's lost into the grass, The same when digging strainer holes, in longer grass you're scraping about trying to get something to backfill although you've filled most of the hole with a strainer and stones.

Ground was very bare when it was done, and it wasn’t me on the machine so was done tidy too

 

[Gulli]

Doesn't make sense to me either, something to do with to soil structure collapsing I think and all the air going out of it, I try and mound them up after but it rarely make a difference

 

[Flat 10]

Has anyone ever dug a ditch field side of the old one to avoid felling old willows etc and successfully picked up the old drains that ran into it? Do you have to stay a certain distance from the old watercourse?