Opened up my silage field!!!help

Hired a 3t digger this week, to clean out ditches, and I have got carried away and opened up the silage field that is getting reseeded asap! Ordered pipe today, going to use pebbles off the shore to back fill,

What I would like to know is how much stone is needed on top of the pipe? Trench is 2 1\2 to 3 feet deep,

The pebbles are flat and smooth but are a right mix of sizes form tea cup to dinner plate size, will this be OK? Can't afford stone from the quarry!!
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Dry Rot

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I've seen peat cuttings in the islands through old drains in peat. They'd have dug a trench, then used the turfs off the top to form a sort of tent with pitched sides in the bottom of the trench, then back filled. Still working since The Clearances. I was told that after the crofters had drained the land, they were moved on again. No wonder they hate the landowners!
 

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