French type drains on a steep side hill

breadtrk · Sep 23, 2014

Combination of dogs, shade and fence building activities recently. It is normally a jungle that is a PITA to mow, weedeat, or burn. The 2 small trees in the middle of the yard have been since removed, they were just overgrown weeds anyway.

I'm not confident enough on that slope to do anything yet so I'm probably going to use the lawn tractor to scratch it up to plant some kind of ground cover that won't poison the hounds and that I won't have to try to mow more than once a year.

breadtrk · Mar 23, 2020

OK, 2 yrs later.... I finally nutted up and took the tractor up there with the backhoe, never once felt uncomfortable or in fear of falling over. I did the chevrons and used pipe that had a sock with foam pellets. Worked a charm. 4yrs later it is still working and it's been VERY wet this year. I've even done the same thing at the house next door.

ALAS, been here 45 yrs and a deal on another house, with a 50 x 100 garage with 16ft doors, a 50x 100 open pole barn with 16ft openings and a huge gravel lot to park and turn my semi's around on, sort of fell into my lap through a divorce in the family..... Drunk and made an offer that she is making him take. So will be making the 25 mile move up there, it IS my dream place, I did help build most of it over the years. It too has a water problem. Fairly level land with a sort of wetland in the rear. During the wet season some water gets under the house, so much so that we put in a drain in the low corner and it does work. I don't want the water in there at all. I'm trying to decide on a french type drain or a swale along the back to give the surface water some place to go. I WILL be running the gutters away like I've been trying to get them to do for the last 10 yrs, that will go a long way to help.

Once the deal is done and I take possession I'll put up some pictures..... things are delicate. Sis is divorcing dude..... I'm not.

Xfaxman · Mar 23, 2020

Sounds good for you, hope it all works out ok.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Creamer · Apr 18, 2020

That is exciting when you get your dream place. Enjoy! And never look back you know this is what you wanted.

breadtrk · Apr 18, 2020

Well..... just in the last month I've purchased property in another county, it too has a couple wet areas but it's all flat as a pool table. I'm keeping this place and bulldozing the 50 yr old doublewide, keeping the 80 yr old house as a rental property. Whole new thing to deal with now, the state says I can do whatever I want , the county says the bog in my 9 acre front yard is a natural wetland...... I'm moving from Nashville and Davidson county because of liberal, socialist, policies, only to even more of the same shat. I'm going the the Army Corp of Engineers, the State guy and tell the county to fight it out with them.