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[Paul_in_CT]

and here is the rental machine that made it all possible . This little dig it just kept on going.

 

[Paul_in_CT]

Now if I just could have fit the Dig-It thru the front door I would have been in heaven. This the only digging machine I ever owned!! Sometimes I had a hard time getting this machine started../w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

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[jfakerj]

Paul
I've got a digging machine like that some where. Have not used it much since I bought the bh.
If I could drain mine out like yours maybe i'd go for it, but the way it is - no way. That digit looks like a sweet machine for bh work.

Jerry

 

[Paul_in_CT]

yeah my manual digging machine ignition isnt as reliable as before and I got tired of paying to rent a machine. Then rushing for a week to get the job done rain or shine. So I`m finally breaking down and buying my own Kubota. I just wish it would get here. I feel like an anxious kid. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif That dig was a good little TLB much better than the terramites.

 

[RichNJ]

When we dug the foundation for our house we hit a spring. It flows several GPM. Luckily the excavator knew what to do. He dug down deeper and placed drain pipes and a layer of larger gravel about 2 feet deep. Then 2 feet of 3/4 gravel and then the rigid insulation, concrete clab, etc. The pipes go down the hill to daylight and there is always alot of water coming out but our basement is bone dry.
In the end it cost a couple thousand extra but moving the house on paper would have cost more.

 

[jfakerj]

RichNJ
I think in my case moving everthing down hill will be much better. It won't change anythingwith the house or the pole barn because it the same slope. The one thing that will change is the view. Won't be as good, but I'd rather do that than have to worry about pipe plugging under the barn or house. Big problems if that were to happen. Beside the house is not really set up for a view any way. Except for the front porch all the rest of our living will be on the uphill side of the house. More private that way. So instead of the house being 550' off the road it'll be about 450'. No big deal.

Jerry

 

[AndyR]

Take a look at "Curtain Wall Drain" that I posted over in photos. I am dealing with hard clay soil for most of this project so sand provides a good channel. In my case, the ground water tends to be moving more horizontally. With your sand it almost sounds more like a water table issue - but if you go deep and size your pipe right will you should be able to stay high and dry!

Andy in NH

 

[jfakerj]

My ground water is moving horizontally also. It's comming down the the steep hill above me and is saturating the ground as it moves down my sloping property. Every day the water has moved a little father down the hill and is now at my perk holes that have been dry until now.. The top one has about 2' of water in it(4' hole). The next hole has about 1' and the bottom one has none. I sure hope the engineer already had this perked because it'd never perk now. The holes I dug up farther on the hill that were 1/2 full a week ago are now overflowing. My rough calculations tell me that putting in a curtain drain (about 100' wide) will yeild about 10 gpm water flow at the depth I'll have to go. That's a lot of water. I'll have to take the water from just above where the pole barn will be and discharge it in my field just below where my drain field will be. I'm thinking that may devert enough water to dry up the drain field(probably using 6"pipe). There's about 1-1/2 acres there before the road and I hope that's enough ground to handle that much water. No problem if I had a lake down there instead of the county road. Maybe I can make one with that much water.

Jerry

 

[MarkV]

Jerry,

Will your house be on a septic system? With the amount of water you are seeing, I would sure make finding a place for the field a high priority. I would think some creative drain lines could take care of the building site, but the septic field is a differnt cup of tea.

Good luck and keep us up to date.

MarkV

 

[jfakerj]

MarkV
I just came back from the property and after digging some more test holes I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to talk to an engineer before I do anything else. I fust need hem to tell me what I'm dealing with here, not to actually design anything. I hate to spend that kind of money but I don't see how I can afford not to. I can already see I'll have to move the drain field slightly.

Jerry