draining ,ditching & jetting lets get this water flowing

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Livestock Farmer
As the landowner you have riparian rights which actually say you must maintain watercourses on your property.

If it's your ditch, then yes, you can clear it.

I'd be thinking, what's the worst they could do? Take you to court and request damages or make you reinstate?

Can't be right, round here I have never seen the environment agency clear anything out...........
Don't think they know what a 360 is, all they do is ride round in white or silver trucks......


Any idea of cost? There is about 100 metres to do. Man with 13 tonne, 360 for 2 days?
 

Matt L

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Trade
Location
Suffolk
Yeah, 13t or 16t for a couple of days with a good driver.
Don't know about charges down your way so wont comment but we would aim to get that done in a full day, but our 360 drivers do that work in their sleep.
 

Thomas5060

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Livestock Farmer
That's what I like to see
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Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
That's what I like to see
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So long as it is taken to the correct depth!

Cleaned one ditch here and pulled out a culvert at a gateway which was expected. Then found an older one even deeper below that. Final ditch level after cleaning is deeper still! :LOL: I hate digging out pipes as they do like to break. Ditches are simple.
 

Thomas5060

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So long as it is taken to the correct depth!

Cleaned one ditch here and pulled out a culvert at a gateway which was expected. Then found an older one even deeper below that. Final ditch level after cleaning is deeper still! :LOL: I hate digging out pipes as they do like to break. Ditches are simple.
It's just a yard drain that goes out over a 6ft drop into a shuck so no need to worry about depth :ROFLMAO:
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
I've got something like that.
Was told they were old steam boiler pipes, used for outlets into the ditch.
I don't understand, what are steam boiler pipes made out of clay? You can see the holes in the top of this one to let the water in. Essentially one half is perforated. I found this one in a ditch about a mile from a field where I have found several, always exposed by ploughing........
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
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Fen Edge
Ha. I think it's very old too but beyond that hunch l have no proof. Google doesn't have any like it l can find. Grandfather said some fields were drained way before him by napoleonic prisoners of war but l don't know how true this is.....
I found out whilst looking for information that the first drainage subsidy was in 1845!
 
Ha. I think it's very old too but beyond that hunch l have no proof. Google doesn't have any like it l can find. Grandfather said some fields were drained way before him by napoleonic prisoners of war but l don't know how true this is.....
I found out whilst looking for information that the first drainage subsidy was in 1845!
Don't know much about subsidys in 1845 or about the prisoners as im not that old !! but I might look it !!!!
 

Kidds

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Horticulture
My son was working in a garden this week and found a lot of water and some clay pipes. He called me for advice and I suggested he rodded the drain. Obviously a land drain from before the house was built.

Off he goes to Screwfix and buys 20 rods and as I told him he sent them up the drain keeping turning them clockwise. Having got them all up there he comes to pull them out and only three come out.
On inspection he realises non of the joints have got the little pins/rivets in. WTF?

I told him he should have bought Baileys, he said they were!
 

Jon

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Location
South Norfolk
I don't understand, what are steam boiler pipes made out of clay? You can see the holes in the top of this one to let the water in. Essentially one half is perforated. I found this one in a ditch about a mile from a field where I have found several, always exposed by ploughing........
Oops sorry, looked like the metal pipes I find when ditching.
My mistake.
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Oops sorry, looked like the metal pipes I find when ditching.
My mistake.
We had a load of old boiler pipes on the farm somewhere and I can't remember what they were used for.........
Back in the day they must have been quite easily acquired.
Never heard of them used in drains, I guess they rusted and blocked terribly?
 

Paddington

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Soggy Shropshire
My son was working in a garden this week and found a lot of water and some clay pipes. He called me for advice and I suggested he rodded the drain. Obviously a land drain from before the house was built.

Off he goes to Screwfix and buys 20 rods and as I told him he sent them up the drain keeping turning them clockwise. Having got them all up there he comes to pull them out and only three come out.
On inspection he realises non of the joints have got the little pins/rivets in. WTF?

I told him he should have bought Baileys, he said they were!
They weren't yellow rods by chance ? Bought a couple of sets off ebay at what seemed a very good price, only to find they were Chinese and virtually fell apart before the went down the drain.
 
A little bit more of what I do with big and small trenchers and diggers
 

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astra

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Trade
Did u ever get chance to try ur setup out?
Just ordered one today from a company that will fit onto a set of draining rods but they are also making me an adaptor to screw it onto the end of our jetter in place of the nozzle. This is a bit of an experiment as I don't know if our homberg will drive it up the drain without the jetter helping with water if you know what I mean but the adaptor was only a few quid so worth a try.
 
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