My creek is clogged - What would you do?

[npalen]

Whatever you do, just be sure to drink upstream from the herd.

 

[plowindeeper]

I notice that you are from TN if your are under the TVA jurisdiction and your stream is big enough. You might get them to dredge it for you for free. Talk with your NRCS office or FSA. Your county extension officer might can help to. They will clean it all out and everyone else's down stream that will let them.

 

[chucko]

Call those swamp logger boys that are on discovery channel

 

[grsthegreat]

back in the 1980's, when i worked on a large cattle operation in Montana, we would head to BigR supply store and pick up a crate of ditching dynamite and primacord. creak would be flowing again with little effort.

those days are long gone.

 

[Ken45101]

If you are going to use a cable (or chain) with a big tractor, be extremely wary of the cable snapping and flying at you, that's lethal. Even with a winch, they recommend that you put a section of old carpet on the cable to dampen it if it breaks.

 

[Pharm]

If you are going to use a cable (or chain) with a big tractor, be extremely wary of the cable snapping and flying at you, that's lethal. Even with a winch, they recommend that you put a section of old carpet on the cable to dampen it if it breaks.

Good point!

 

[dmccarty]

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I'm probably going to try to use a come-a-long with a cable and winch a log from a large tree on the bank. I'll post again when it's done and let you know what worked. I'm definitely waiting until the water's lower and warmer. Maybe I'll get lucky and the floods will get it done - procrastination does work for me sometimes. :thumbsup:

I think I would be using my come along and cable as well to see what happens. This is going to be like a game of pick up sticks in reverse. If you can find the right logs, and you can move them, I think the jam will come apart at least enough to let the next heavy rain finished the job. When I worked on a farm as a kid we had a small Cat bulldozer with a winch. We pulled many a larger tree up/down ridges without a problem. Trees far larger than what I see in the stream. From the photos, the trees you cut that are in the stream don't look too big. If you can pull them so that the water can help move/float them I don't think it will take much humph. Just humph in the right direction.

The boss also would run the bull dozer in one of his creeks to clear it and make easier access. I wonder if that would get him in trouble today...

Later,
Dan

 

[rkeith]

Blowing it up is the easiest, if you can find someone with their ticket. Backhoe would be next.

Two or three sticks of dynomite will solve that problem! ...just like removing a stump! :thumbsup:

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Just remember that moving water is incredibly powerful. If the flow of water is, say 3 miles per hour in a 20' wide section and you somehow manage to block off 10' of it with a log, the speed will double in the new 10' wide stream instantly. The force of the water, however, will not double. It will quadruple. I'd say if you're going to start pulling logs, wait for the lowest, slowest water flow just to be safe.

Actually fluid resistance goes up with the cube of velocity, so if you double the velocity you increase the force 8x. This works for wind speed too, which is why 100 mph winds are twice as damaging as 80 mph winds.

 

[MossRoad]

Actually fluid resistance goes up with the cube of velocity, so if you double the velocity you increase the force 8x. This works for wind speed too, which is why 100 mph winds are twice as damaging as 80 mph winds.

That gives him twice as much reason to use caution than I tought! :laughing: