How to unblock a 2ft culvert under an A road...

[Doing it for the kids]

Usual story, discharges on to neighbours land, its blocked reasonable solid, access good from upstream but not down.

meeting neighbour and going to dig out a bit out down hill side to give us a chance later this week.

visible from the road, so need to be careful.

all suggestions welcome, I only have one!?

 

[Lincsman]

Road culverts belong to the council, ring them to clear it.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Road culverts belong to the council, ring them to clear it.

whilst it may be true, i need it doing this year! That said it’s worth’s phone call I suppose. Thanks

 

[RAF]

Just get a local jetting firm in they aren’t that dear . Ideally a firm with agri no how. Where about are you

 

[Lincsman]

whilst it may be true, i need it doing this year! That said it’s worth’s phone call I suppose. Thanks

Hype it up a bit like danger to homes etc and crop compensation.

 

[Will 1594]

Just on with making a bigger version of one of these , with some skids on ,
can you get some drain rods through , with a rope attached , then pull a chain trough ,with a car tyre on end ,if so pull one through ,then two tyres and back through ,

 

[RAF]

That’s a good idea tbf

 

[Smith31]

We threaded some rope through with drain roads from one end of the culvert to the other, then attached a small disability scooter tyre to one end of the rope and pulled it through.

We did attach another bit of rope to the tyre, so it could be dragged back out, in the event it hit something solid or got stuck.

 

[Brains]

We threaded some rope through with drain roads from one end of the culvert to the other, then attached a small disability scooter tyre to one end of the rope and pulled it through.

We did attach another bit of rope to the tyre, so it could be dragged back out, in the event it hit something solid or got stuck.

We have done this before, rope one way and chains another and pulled with a tractor with a wide implement to get some overhang. Start with something small to drag through then get bigger. Needs to be something which won’t snag on pipes if not aligned.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Small child

 

[s~~t shoveller]

We fasten a telegraph pole and push through as a drain rod with digger bucket but watch out when it comes back out in a rush!

 

[Exfarmer]

Road culverts belong to the council, ring them to clear it.

You sure, I doubt it!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

whilst it may be true, i need it doing this year! That said it’s worth’s phone call I suppose. Thanks

I let my councillor know and the crew are there within the week.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

You sure, I doubt it!

Course they do, which doesn't mean they want to. If a culvert starts collapsing, who do you think is going to correct it?

 

[Exfarmer]

Most rural roads, in fact virtually all those which were made before WW2, are owned by the neighbouring landowner with the highways only responsible for the surface. I am unaware of any responsibility for culverts
Land drainage act 1991 states landowner is responsible, whether they are aware of it or not, if it is on their land
this is only the law in England and Wales, i am not aware of Scottish law.

 

[Wombat]

Most rural roads, in fact virtually all those which were made before WW2, are owned by the neighbouring landowner with the highways only responsible for the surface. I am unaware of any responsibility for culverts
Land drainage act 1991 states landowner is responsible, whether they are aware of it or not, if it is on their land
this is only the law in England and Wales, i am not aware of Scottish law.

Interesting but when we bought some land last year it only showed our boundary to the hedge on the land registry maps, the verge and road were not ours

 

[Exfarmer]

Interesting but when we bought some land last year it only showed our boundary to the hedge on the land registry maps, the verge and road were not ours

Two points
the land registry do not delineate boundaries!
second when was the road built?
it is possible the previous owner kept the verge etc to act as a ransom strip in the future

 

[Dukes Fit]

What's it blocked with?

I've done a few culvert clearing jobs for council.
For box culverts underneath bridges I built a dredge 6ft wide using a loop of Oil Rig mooring chain and a towing bridle attached. Winched through the culverts and back with a tow tractor.
Culvert boxes were around 13ft wide, 5ft deep and blocked to about 8inches from the top.

For smaller culverts/drains we had a PTO driven Bauer irrigation pump and rigged it up to fire hose using Morris fittings. Also had 3 10ft solid extension pipes to run down the culverts but to be honest pure weight/flow of water was the most effective method.

Flushed out a large build up of silt and rocks and worked very effectively

 

[br jones]

Council have to deal with blocked manholes and culverts here ,

 

[Mc115reed]

Get your local slurrying contractor in, find a pond and Rev her up