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<blockquote data-quote="Simon C" data-source="post: 7308616" data-attributes="member: 319"><p>Completely understand your problem, sounds like the same as here. Old permanent pasture has 6 inches of top soil then it's solid clay which goes down for ever, water does not percolate through it, the natural way the rain water leaves the land is surface run off. Sometimes some clown will put in a soakaway on a new build house, but they just fill up and water finds it's own way across the surface.</p><p></p><p>In my grandfather's day (1940s, 50s) arable land was stetched up, that is going back and forwards with a conventional plough so as to make water furrow every 8 feet. Then they dug water furrows by hand at right angles to take water to the ditches. The only way we can farm here now is to put in an artificial system which consists of stone backfilled drainage with moling every 2.5 metres across them. As soon as a mole fails, water just sits on the surface and stays there all winter.</p><p></p><p>I've read all the books too, the trouble is these ideas don't always work on different continents, on different soil types and in different climates. Most of these authors only know there own little piece of dirt and can't possibly comprehend what it is like elsewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon C, post: 7308616, member: 319"] Completely understand your problem, sounds like the same as here. Old permanent pasture has 6 inches of top soil then it's solid clay which goes down for ever, water does not percolate through it, the natural way the rain water leaves the land is surface run off. Sometimes some clown will put in a soakaway on a new build house, but they just fill up and water finds it's own way across the surface. In my grandfather's day (1940s, 50s) arable land was stetched up, that is going back and forwards with a conventional plough so as to make water furrow every 8 feet. Then they dug water furrows by hand at right angles to take water to the ditches. The only way we can farm here now is to put in an artificial system which consists of stone backfilled drainage with moling every 2.5 metres across them. As soon as a mole fails, water just sits on the surface and stays there all winter. I've read all the books too, the trouble is these ideas don't always work on different continents, on different soil types and in different climates. Most of these authors only know there own little piece of dirt and can't possibly comprehend what it is like elsewhere. [/QUOTE]
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