Well we took the plunge and bought a 20+ acre (almost) turnkey farm! It already has a fairly well done drylot, which connects via a narrow lane to a large pasture. The problem is that the connecting lane goes right through a major drainage route. I want to just slap some drain tile in there and throw some gravel and screenings over it, maybe with a grid system too, but I’m worried that with all the horse traffic that the tile will get crushed within a year and we will be back where we started. Anyone with similar setups care to give me some ideas? Tile and gravel honestly seems too easy, nothing is ever that easy!
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If you use a grid system, I imagine it’d be fine, as they’re meant for high traffic areas.
Is this a ditch or wide muddy area? If it’s a ditch or could be graded as a ditch, get an actual culvert that’s big and sturdy enough to handle the water volume and load, then put gravel over that.
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Another vote for a culvert.
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Can we see a picture? If water is running over it then it will eventually relocate whatever you try to put put there. It does sound like a culvert might be in order.
Is a culvert something I (as a fairly handy person with a tractor) could install myself? Or are we now talking about professional grade excavating work? Where does one even buy culvert pipe (or whatever its called? I’ll try to get a picture tomorrow when its light out.
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if you have a blade or are skilled with the bucket, you can install a culvert. Its just a pipe covered by dirt. Of course the drainage is first graded somewhat to collect the water and sendit throught he culvert.
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My local Tractor Supply sells culvert pipe, though sometimes it needs to be ordered in a special size. Attached is a short video of a guy with a tractor installing one. This is likely a bigger pipe than you need. This is the simple way, but you can go with things like filter fabric, gravel and such. But it sounds like all you’d need is a pipe and dirt. There are lots of youtube videos on this.
Here is a photo. I hope the upload works, not quite sure how to post photos. I think I will end up doing a culvert. Does anyone know how deep you need to bury it so that the horse and tractor traffic over it won’t crush it and render it useless. Assuming I get a plastic one. The steel ones are expensive!
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