While I'm at it PICS(Culvert Installation)

JD Farmer · Dec 18, 2011

Thanks for all the advice I got on doing this.

It gave me time to rethink a little and go ahead with what I had planned, but I did go for broke and now, time will tell if it holds up. I kinda think it will.
Since the pics were taken I put 20 tons of #4 limestone on it too, so it's filled to the top of the walls and from the gate to the corner of the grainery.
Sure the heck alot nicer to cross and smoother too.

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John T · Dec 18, 2011

Awwwwwwww Shucks, Your daughters not in the pictures, what good are they, these pictures arent near as prettyyyyyyyyyyyy lol lol

Take care JD

Merry CHRISTmas

John T

BushogPapa · Dec 18, 2011

If you think the ditch may fill back in, you may want to consider laying a string of tile in there and back-filling/seeding it..
Maybe 8" tile..?
The tile would let the low land drain and carry off lighter water flow and relieve flow during higher flow...
Just a thought..

Ron..

Mark - IN. · Dec 18, 2011

Looks good to me. An ambitious undertaking. Use it in good health for many years to come.

And as John said, Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Dec 18, 2011

you should have that fenced.... your dog might pull a peterpan off the edge and drown in that deep water...LOL

donjr · Dec 18, 2011

Is that a dawg or the local township inspector?

Clodbuster · Dec 19, 2011

Oh heck, you should have just built a ramp on each side and jumped the tractors across.

JD Farmer · Dec 19, 2011

LOL....you guys are funny. You all have a Merry Christmas too.....and by the way....my daughter is gonna read this stuff too...

Daryl in PA · Dec 19, 2011

No guardrails?

Gun guru · Dec 19, 2011

I had a similar issue when I built my home. I used 12" corregated plastic pipe, under ground. You may have to cut those sides back farther so it doesnt cave in and dam up the water.

Vito · Dec 19, 2011

Nice job.Only suggestions would be to put some rip rap at both ends of the culvert and cut the bank slopes back to a 2 to 1 grade.

Vito

dieseldoc · Dec 19, 2011

that is the best culvert install i ever saw. excellent job!

JD Farmer · Dec 19, 2011

I plan to do that once we get thru the winter and I get a few rocks gathered together. I have plenty of them, just got to go out and pick them off the ground.

JayinNY · Dec 19, 2011

Looks great! Can your widest equipment fit across it? I have a culvert and it's close going over it with may 489 haynine. Lol, I put orange painted stakes up on the edges for the winter, the snow can trick u as to were the sides r. Mines about 10 ft above the creek bed thought.

GordoSD · Dec 19, 2011

Code violation, gas barrel too close to dwelling.

Billy NY · Dec 19, 2011

Un-chocked round bales, oh boy ......

Back to the culvert, well that is probably as cost effective as it gets, do those banks and rubble/rip-rap then post when you get that prolonged heavy rain, hard to figure looking at it what the water will do if it overflows, looks like it ought to hold up against most storms.

Mike (WA) · Dec 19, 2011

Nice job. It even seems to have the begrudging approval of the board Safety Officer.

Will be interested to see if it takes all the water in a prolonged rain. I've been "badly fooled" a couple of times along those lines, and always put in what seems to be a ridiculously big culvert now- and have always been glad I did. 'Course, we invented rain in the Pacific Northwest. . .

JayinNY · Dec 19, 2011

Could be used to collect rain water for a garden.

Mark-Ia · Dec 19, 2011

That was JDSeller with the daughter.

Daryl in PA · Dec 19, 2011

Same person..........look at the pictures!

JDseller · Dec 19, 2011

That is JD Farmer"s daughter hauling bales. Mine is just a little bit older. (I was threatened with bodily harm IF I told her age) LOL

john in la · Dec 19, 2011

'Course, we invented rain in the Pacific Northwest. . .
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

You may have more rain (make that drizzle) days but you are no where close to most inches of rain in a year.

1 Mobile, Ala.: 67 inches
2 Pensacola, Fla.: 65
3 New Orleans, La.: 64
4 West Palm Beach, Fla.: 63
5 Lafayette, La.: 62
6 Baton Rouge, La.: 62
7 Miami, Fla.: 62
8 Port Arthur, Texas: 61
9 Tallahassee, Fla.: 61
10 Lake Charles, La.: 58

The Southeast dominated the most rainy list, while the Pacific Northwest never enters the list until Olympia, Washington pops up at number 24.

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