"Pumping" gravel uphill?

[Taylortractornut]

I wouldnt want to get caught with silt in a creek. Id spring for the clean stuff, Trying to pump that stone would be hard. When I was 15 and had gotten time welding I worked on a Gravel screen for the folks we bought our gravel from . THey had a chute wear thin. it was for pea gravel. I didnt know they had special grained metal for it. I picked up a peice of cold rolled metal. I welded it in and the first hour of production i was welding in a new peice of the wear material.

 

[pat32rf]

I thought 3/4 crushed ran about 2 ton/yard?
If you pump the water up and wash it then let the water flow back down, for the amount you are doing there might not be much silt that makes it to the creek.....
(is it a clear spring fed trout stream or a muddy crick?)

 

[zmoz]

Pumping water to the top instead could be a possibility, but unfortunately my best work area is going to be down by the creek. It's kind of hard to explain...but that's where I have the space to pile up my different "grades". I'm talking about crushed basalt which is about the only type of "gravel" we have around here.

Id check with the powers that be before id go dumping a bunch of silt into a stream.

This is actually a "drainage ditch" with a muddy bottom and no aquatic life what so ever. It gets most of it's water from the local parking lots. It looks nice and clear, but it's definately not clean. About half a mile down stream it fills the city's sewage ponds.

That's why I want to add gravel to the section where I like to relax, make it look a little nicer instead of a mud hole.

 

[zmoz]

Now imagine with me for a second...if I have some sort of auger attached to the end of the gravel pipe. If I continue to feed gravel into that, it should, in theory force it's way all the way up the hill....no? I'm thinking basically an auger that would fit tightly (but still spin) inside the bottom of a 4" pipe.

Or would the auger need to extend all the way up the hill?

Honestly I would just bring it up in 5 gallon buckets but I can't climb up the hill and cary a bucket at the same time. LOL

 

[zmoz]

Anybody have any idea what a 55 gallon drum full of gravel weighs? I might be able to clear a big enough area for some kind of track up the hill, a steel pipe or a peice of lumber, up which I could winch a drum full of gravel. **** maybe I could ride it too.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

depend on the gravel and how wet it was also. Somewhere in the 350 plus range.

you could parbuckel it, I have parbuckeled drums of fuel up pretty steep hills with just a couple people.

 

[Scooby074]

Drainage ditch that fills a sewer pond? You should be ok as far as the Dept of environment goes.

Sounds like it will be an improvement as to what you have now.:thumbsup:

 

[BHD]

could you make a skid (or trailer like cart) that is attached to a cable and then pull the skid/cart up the hill with your tractor on flat ground?

 

[SPYDERLK]

Anybody have any idea what a 55 gallon drum full of gravel weighs?

A little short of 1000 pounds. Gravel weighs roughly twice what water weighs. Gravel types vary density within a range so yould have to get more specific to close in on a closer weight.
larry

 

[2manyrocks]

There's a reason quarrys use conveyor belts and loaders. It almost seems like you'd want to look at the way they do mining cars on tracks and maybe figure out something from that. The problem with a 55 gallon drum is loading it on end, turning it over when it's full, and rolling it.