Small trencher

[dvan1966]

I have a area in my backyard that has had standing water in it all winter. I need to dig a small trench to drain it. Any ideas on something on a 3 point hitch or attaching to the FEL to do this? I have a Kubota B6200.
Thanks for any advise.

 

[bigtiller]

A subsoiler with a mole-ball will make a hole for water to run in. It's the farmers "quick" tile job. But it will collapse if driven on, so you get to do it every year. John Deere makes one for farm tractors but with a little ingenuity you could patch one together for your B6200.

 

[2manyrocks]

Backyard picture with the water would help. How big and long is the area? Do you really need a trench or to generally regrade or fill in a low spot? Do you need a french drain?

Just some preliminary questions that come to mind.

 

[Renze]

I have a area in my backyard that has had standing water in it all winter. I need to dig a small trench to drain it. Any ideas on something on a 3 point hitch or attaching to the FEL to do this? I have a Kubota B6200.
Thanks for any advise.

You need a pizza cutter

Mole ploughs only work in clay soil.

 

[dvan1966]

Backyard picture with the water would help. How big and long is the area? Do you really need a trench or to generally regrade or fill in a low spot? Do you need a french drain?

Just some preliminary questions that come to mind.

It's not a big area. I plan on getting topsoil and fill in. It has always soaked in in the past but the past year it holds water. It doesn't help that I have septic/leach field issues and a tile that drains in that area sometimes. The plan is to get all that fixed this spring. I just need to get it dried out. I also have a downed tree that I need to cut up in that area.

 

[dvan1966]

the area I need to drain

 

[Smokeydog]

Better rear blades dig a swallow trench pretty good.
Quick spade on forks works good.

 

[newbury]

My back yard looked similar to that about 40 years ago. I took a round pointed shovel, removed a1 foot strip of sod, dug a shallow ditch. Laid in an appropriate length of slotted 4" or 6" black plastic drain pipe, laid a layer of roofing felt over, filled around the sides with #57, topped with the sod. Been fine ever since.
My back hurts just thinking about.
A tractor solution would have been nice.

 

[2manyrocks]

Where would you drain that to and how deep would you have to go to reach daylight with the outlet of your drain?

Does the drain tile location feed water into this area that is ponding? Is something else going on that is causing your septic field to also be saturated with water?

Has this been going on for a while or did it recently start?

Sort of wondering if the three issues you mentioned are all connected and the ponding is just one symptom of an underlying cause or if you are dealing with multiple separate problems.

 

[D2Cat]

Looks like you have a high spot where that lane is. Need to cut it a bit lower there. Should be able to take your loader bucket and put the cutting edge down where you want the water to run and simply roll you bucket. Might take a couple of times to make it low enough for water to drain.

Or you could get a sub soiler and pull it through that drive area about 6-8" deep and water will flow. You won't need to add any attachment to the rear of it. Just pull it a few inched deep. Also, make sure you have to utilities in the path!!

 

[sandman2234]

A middlebuster is a wide version of a subsoiler, which would make a little wider trench. I used a rear pond scoop/dirt scoop to dig a ditch, which worked out really good.
David from jax

 

[rd_macgregor]

Everything Attachments has a "how to use a box blade" video in which they show how to ditch with a box blade...

https://www.everythingattachments.com/Tractor-Box-Blades-Box-Scraper-Grader-Box-s/85.htm

At about 5 minutes into the video.
If you are going to be adding some fill in that hole, you might be needing a box blade anyway.

 

[dvan1966]

We made one at work the other day, seems to work pretty well. Just too muddy to get back where I want to trench right now.

 

[Vigo327]

Love to see homemade implements. I like the use of the 3pt drawbar. Whenever im daydreaming some kind of homemade attachment I always seem to forget that you don't have to build the lower pins mounting points if you just make the thing bolt to a 3pt drawbar.