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The OP is asking about a septic field, not grey water.
Dig septic bed with front end loader
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Be an idiot... Doing that is tantamount to modifying a T 4-5 tractor to geat the emissions hardware and soft ware. You do that and your tractor and your property becomes with much less when you eventually sell it and running the outlet pipe feom a septic to the ditch beagtes any potential sale when you cannot meet the requirements of the sale because it won't pass muster. Sure it's been thought of and done, but right, no way.
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I guess that’s a solid idea if you want to your house condemned, utilities shut off and your house be unsellable until it’s brought up to code.
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Lots of low income people here just run the pipe to the creek. Mine is up to snuff, but I have seen many trailers with a 4 in pipe sloping to the woods.
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There's a small town SE of us that had an open ditch behind all of the houses. Their sewage just went straight into that. For decades. Then, as I recall, it overflowed into an AG drainage ditch and then into a river. I believe they had to start a sewer district and everyone had to hook up. The water table was too high and the lots too small for septic systems. Cost a lot of people a lot of money.
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Many jurisdictions only count sidewall surface area to achieve the square footage for a system. So a trench that is narrow is the least expensive. I used to argue with them about counting the ends when I was designing them.
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CONGRATS!
Looks great.
Can you give us a rough estimate of the man hours it took?
Looks great.
Can you give us a rough estimate of the man hours it took?
Digging the hole took a full day with two tractors at time or 1 tractor and a man on the laser level. Day two was putting in the 6" of gravel and then laser leveling the pipe. Also on day two the pipe was covered with 2" of gravel with tractors riding on 2x12 lumber. Got it all the way to being ready for inspection on day two leaving just the header uncovered.
It took about another 6 hours with two tractors to carefully backfill using heaving 3/4 plywood with 2x12's on top of that to backfill. Had one tractor running on the lumber in the pit and another dumping dirt in from the side.
Not counted in all of this was the time to add a effluent filter at the tank outlet, fine grading with rakes, and dealing with buying all the pipe and doing engineering drawings of the layout.
It took about another 6 hours with two tractors to carefully backfill using heaving 3/4 plywood with 2x12's on top of that to backfill. Had one tractor running on the lumber in the pit and another dumping dirt in from the side.
Not counted in all of this was the time to add a effluent filter at the tank outlet, fine grading with rakes, and dealing with buying all the pipe and doing engineering drawings of the layout.