New Mahindra Owner!

[Etch]

all your pics look very familiar. my driveway is about 700' long and after a good rain the whole thing looks similar to yours. i just started repairing it tonight. we had a 18" deep by 2' wide trench through a about a third of the driveway that was dug out in the last 2 months. now it's gone. only about 500' of driveway to take care of. i lol at your video of your runoff, my wife thought i was a nerd for the pics i took.

LOL.. My wife is the one who suggested I take the pics and video!

 

[Tim_in_IA]

Here are some pictures of my river.. uh.. I mean driveway:

Yikes! Time for some culverts!

 

[Etch]

Yikes! Time for some culverts!

Yup! Another one! We just put in a large culvert a few months ago to replace a pair of crumbling concrete culverts that were installed in the 60's (it had the date etched into them..lol) You can't see it from the pictures, since it is behind where I was taking the pictures from.

We actually need to install 2 more culverts. 1 where you see the run off and another where the driveway starts across my front yard.

 

[Etch]

Started on 2 of my projects!! Just got back from South Carolina on business and found it hadn't rained since I left. The front yard is still wet from all the standing water, but I was able to start cutting a trench for drainage. I used the box blade and the FEL and it worked great. i had to stop when I started hitting the really wet stuff. So after that I took off the box blade and attached the 6' shredder and tackled about 5 of my 24 acers (actually 22 acres since 2 acres is accounted for by the house, yard, driveway, etc.) It was so nice to see those darned sunflower weeds get mowed down.

The 5 acres is the front pasture and as I was mowing the horses were lining up at the gate noticing all that nice grass that they would now be able to get to. Once I finished, I opened the gate and they haven't left since. I'm not really sure how long it took, but I'm guessing about 3 hours or so in 2nd gear (the weeds were really thick and the ground is very rough back there.) The wife was very happy when she got home. Even though I had the deck set up pretty high to avoid all the rocks I got out there, it made a world of difference. After shutting the tractor down, I went over to look at the ditch I had started and to my surprise, there was water in it. Looks like it will work nicely.

The only bad news of the day is the fact that I got a flat tire. The rear left tire was completely flat when I came back out about an hour later. I found no evidence of thorns or nails, but the air is coming out by the valve stem, so I guess a thorn did puncture it. I posted a thread in the Parts/Repair section.

 

[Shemp]

Started on 2 of my projects!! Just got back from South Carolina on business and found it hadn't rained since I left. The front yard is still wet from all the standing water, but I was able to start cutting a trench for drainage. I used the box blade and the FEL and it worked great. i had to stop when I started hitting the really wet stuff. So after that I took off the box blade and attached the 6' shredder and tackled about 5 of my 24 acers (actually 22 acres since 2 acres is accounted for by the house, yard, driveway, etc.) It was so nice to see those darned sunflower weeds get mowed down.

The 5 acres is the front pasture and as I was mowing the horses were lining up at the gate noticing all that nice grass that they would now be able to get to. Once I finished, I opened the gate and they haven't left since. I'm not really sure how long it took, but I'm guessing about 3 hours or so in 2nd gear (the weeds were really thick and the ground is very rough back there.) The wife was very happy when she got home. Even though I had the deck set up pretty high to avoid all the rocks I got out there, it made a world of difference. After shutting the tractor down, I went over to look at the ditch I had started and to my surprise, there was water in it. Looks like it will work nicely.

The only bad news of the day is the fact that I got a flat tire. The rear left tire was completely flat when I came back out about an hour later. I found no evidence of thorns or nails, but the air is coming out by the valve stem, so I guess a thorn did puncture it. I posted a thread in the Parts/Repair section.

Etch,

Boy that tractor looks familiar. Could be that I have the same one except I got the 5' cutter and 5' boxblade. Got mine about 2 weeks ago from Knox Tractor in Houston. It's a great piece of machinery.

If you can I would really apprecieate it if you could show some pics of the trench that you are cutting. I've got a similar situation on my land out in Columbus as far as drainage and would be interested in seeing what you are doing. Thanks.

 

[Etch]

I'll see if I can take some pics today or tomorrow. My property is on a downward slope and the natural drainage is good, but in the front yard we have a low spot and we have an area that is higher than it should be preventing the water from escaping. My plan is to fill some of the low spot and also cut a trench through the high spot. I don't want a narrow deep trench, since that would make it difficult to mow, so what I'm doing is cutting an 8' wide shallow trench just deep enough so the water will find it's way in and drain towards the back part of our property, where it naturally drains. I'm an amateur, so I'm not even sure this is the best solution, but so far, it seems to be working as water is starting to drain through there. I still have a long way to go.

 

[Cacinok]

etch, good to hear you've dried out some. it's a wonderful feeling to cross off projects. i'm about half way done fixing our driveway, but the half that i've fixed makes a huge difference.

 

[Etch]

etch, good to hear you've dried out some. it's a wonderful feeling to cross off projects. i'm about half way done fixing our driveway, but the half that i've fixed makes a huge difference.

Yeah I can't wait to fix the driveway. About to order some base here in a few.