Wormwood
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2011
- Messages
- 60
- Location
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Tractor
- Kubota M5-111 SVL97-2 KX080-4s2
If anyone has a good way to handle this please share...
The pasture is about 70acres in total, a little less than half is a gentle slope that can be still be cut laterally to the slope but enough of a slope for watershed to collect at the bottom half. The problem is the bottom half. Even though the hay almost waist high & golden ready to cut the ground moisture makes it impossible for a 2wd tractor to drive through with a cutter or rake & a 4wd drive will do fine but rut everything. Over the years, I've simply bushhogged & put everything back in the ground & cut it short trying to get sunlight down to the moisture hoping it would dry it up. I've come to realize this has got to be spring fed because it's constant & no amount of sun or weather conditions changes the moisture. So my question is has anyone tried digging a "dry well" properly? I mean excavated a deep enough hole to get through the layer of clay & then backfilling with rock & allowing the water to perk past the clay into the ground? How close should dry wells be together & how many are needed? Is fabric need to keep the clay layer from clogging everything up? Since I'll probably rent out some equipment, I'd like to get it right & done the first time but have a difficult time coming up with a solution.
Wormwood
The pasture is about 70acres in total, a little less than half is a gentle slope that can be still be cut laterally to the slope but enough of a slope for watershed to collect at the bottom half. The problem is the bottom half. Even though the hay almost waist high & golden ready to cut the ground moisture makes it impossible for a 2wd tractor to drive through with a cutter or rake & a 4wd drive will do fine but rut everything. Over the years, I've simply bushhogged & put everything back in the ground & cut it short trying to get sunlight down to the moisture hoping it would dry it up. I've come to realize this has got to be spring fed because it's constant & no amount of sun or weather conditions changes the moisture. So my question is has anyone tried digging a "dry well" properly? I mean excavated a deep enough hole to get through the layer of clay & then backfilling with rock & allowing the water to perk past the clay into the ground? How close should dry wells be together & how many are needed? Is fabric need to keep the clay layer from clogging everything up? Since I'll probably rent out some equipment, I'd like to get it right & done the first time but have a difficult time coming up with a solution.
Wormwood