If you want to protect the upstream soil banks from erosion, use soil bags. Hessian bags filled with top soil, place them on the banks. An seeds in the soil will row and the roots will stitch them all together.
Zero years of professional construction experience, but I think it’s a trade off between how much to spend now to push maintenance further down the road. No matter how large the pipe, Mother Nature will eventually throw enough stuff at it to clog it. However, I usually overbuild and spend more than I should up front to put off maintenance as long as possible. I like making things but hate maintaining them. I can’t recommend my approach for others, but I’m stuck with who I am.
You created some RU-vid classics in 2023, but in '24 you continue to kill it! I really appreciate the work, but you bring the work to the video quality, and you make this channel a joy to watch.
Waiting months to add the results of your labor, adds so much to the overall enjoyment of the video. Just seeing the grass come up, out of that straw, made me smile.
Having a long enough pipe to receive and discharge water is a big key to working properly. Entry water has a swirl that 'eats' the bank away, fills the pipe or washes it down stream. A thoughtful and expert operator (Jon) makes for a good job and video. Thank you for relaxing & enjoyable time in the woods.
From my own experience with plastic culverts they are much more resistant to blocking if you concrete around the entrance to remove the sharp edge. The collar face can be at a 90 degree angle to the pipe, but is better if slightly angled in by 10 to 20 degrees. The collar will funnel small sticks & debris into the pipe without them blocking the entrance. Even if larger sticks and logs wedge pile up, the angled collar will hold them away from the pipe entrance, leaving gaps for the water to pass through to the culvert pipe.
You're right! Water always wins! And, it doesn't take very long! One gully washer here took out 6 ft of dirt on a farm road, in 15 minutes! Great video, Jon! Lee
Great work John. Makes you realise the work a modern machine like the Yanmar and materials like the pipe can do and save you, in the past those jobs would have been quite a big undertaking digging out with hand tools, stone lining and capping the culverts. Thanks as always for brining us along!
As a kid on my uncles farm, we used chicken wire to stabilize the down stream side of a couple crossings, then added rock over the top to hold it in place.
And here was me thinking the boom behind looked awkward but made some sense with managing centre of gravity. OTOH the boom downhill can be an even better tool to manage problems due to centre of gravity. If all else fails he can just walk it off the side and everyone can have a comment. 😉
Why would it be annoying? I'd feel sketchy going down a trailer backwards tbh, but each to their own. I don't see how that would be annoying anyway, the way I look at it, I don't look at safety things as an annoying thing, rather a necessary thing to enjoy the activity you are doing safely, and the privilege of being able to continue doing that activity since you don't get injured! I mean yeah it's probably a bit easier to do it without safety gear or safety procedures but then it's only gonna be a matter of time until you hurt yourself so you can't even do that anymore at all.
That's great work Here in the Adirondacks we'll usually dig "down and out" around 4ft before the culvert. This will slow the water before entry and give a place for sediment to collect. Easy to clean out if needed. Nothing broke down....
The cost of machinery is not cheap but it makes jobs sooo much more efficient. Renting equip gets expensive and with all the back and forth, jobs are put on hold until you have enough to make the rental worthwhile. When you can fix your shit, buying used is the way to go. Things get done when they should get done and once you have it you find so many uses for it. Great video as always John. Nice to see the grass all up and looking great.
you could make "trash racks" for the culverts, just a box or wedge shape of rebar. so if the front gets clogged the water can flow over the top of the rack and still go through the pipe.
@@tujuprojects Please. There are plenty of farms around the US that are messy or have junk lying around. Jon's is just a better example of keeping it tidy.
With time and persistence, water can create wonderful landscapes and block even the largest pipe. It is very wise of you not to fight against water, but to use it as your ally. Good job John!
Hey Jon. Thanks for having the patients to hold off showing bits a pieces. I really enjoyed the start to finish of the video. Question . . . why didn't you tow the farm cart back to the farm with the excavator? Rob
Just a suggestion. While you have the pipe clear you should threadle a piece of chain through it. If it ever gets clogged in the future you can just tie something (such as an old tyre) to the end of the chain and pull it through. Thereby clearing the blockage. You then threadle the chain back through ready for the next time.
You should consider putting a hitch receiver on the backfill blade of your excavator. It would come in handy for towing your side by side around a job site for quick runs back to your truck, and also towing a small trailer for supplies and tools around job sites. Several people have done videos on that and cotton top has a good video on mounting the receiver hitch.
Looks like it came out good! I like top stack 3 smaller pipes in a triangle formation so that if the one pipe gets clogged it won't wash out before I catch it. It saves me a lot of redoing.
I’ve got two 16’ sections of 14” smooth internal wall ribbed outer wall black plastic pipe in my backyard. When I picked them up at the lumber yard I guess they weighed a little over 109 lbs. Now leave one set a little while outside and it will weigh 209-300 lbs from water condensing in the ribbed chambers form the little holes in the pipe.
Luv your videos you are so knowledgeable in all things farming and machine repair I live in co kildare ireland and you have a lot of fans here in Ireland keep up the great content
Nice video Jon. I would have liked the story ending to be Jen taking Dozer for a walk along the trail to show the culverts and how much he has grown. Cheers EJ
This is the kind of content I subscribed for. I really loved your analysis of why that Fill was just sitting there on the side of the stream. Yeah, it makes sense that when they were originally digging it out they would have encountered a lot of muddy dirt. "Can't work with that, so put it to the side.:
When you are strapping a single piece of pipe of any kind to a flat bed trailer, take one strap and wrap it around the pipe in a clockwise direction one wrap. Then wrap another in a counter clockwise direction one wrap. That way they will pull against each other firmly securing the pipe in place.
Speaking of creeks and flowing water, I highly recommend watching two videos from "Practical Engineering" - "Why Rivers Move" and " Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers", they explain in simple terms, e.g. why you just can't straighten river without erosion. I think it's good know this, if you are already making dams.
I do have corrugated poly pipe on my road, however, I went to an earthmoving place and asked them if they had any secondhand concrete culverts. $2500 later I ended up with 42 culverts delivered. It was a bargain. Yes they're damaged a bit but we 'aint building a freeway. 42 is enough to do 14 full width culverts. Thing is they're not as easy to place as a poly culvert, but in the mix I got 6 large diameter so 30" culverts. I also have a hobby excavator a 7.5t Kobelco (not as good as yours) but a bit bigger. One row of those large culverts saved my road in a freaky incident one night. Previously there had only been a single smaller poly culvert. So, I'd been arresting some gully erosion by placing in some tree stumps left over from logging. A big rain came and washed one stump into the culvert next to the large diameter concrete one. The stump fit in the smaller culvert almost like a cork with the roots acting as a stopper. The water rose up it was flowing over the road - just. The water was firing out the large diameter culvert like it does at the bottom of a dam when they open the gates LOL. In my car I had a chain (I live in the forest so not as 'lucky' as it seems) and dragged the stump out of the smaller culvert saving the road. I would've been trapped on the wrong side if the road got washed out.
12:35 Nice mud maneuvering, Jon! That same trick works on snow, too, until all the tracks merge into a single icy sheet. But I'm betting you know that.
Did you see the dump trucks DC matt got one of those would be perfect for your farm. And congratulations on having the farm a lot of work but it looks like a lot of freedom to💥💥🛠️🐿️
Don't do a slow motion grab at a log in the river if you're not about to fall in the damn river... That's basically like common curiosity! lol love the vid man!
Love your videos. Also like watching diesel Creek and Andrew camaretta. I was watching a video of yours watching your rotation of grace and with your cattle noticing. There's a lot of area with grass or fish that the cattle don't like. Maybe you have so many acres. It doesn't matter. I was just thinking maybe you could enhance. The areas by giving rid of the areas they're not eating and Put down. New seed.
I don't know if this could be applied in your case as your pipes aren't buried very deep, but i've seen people doing it on video. You can take and old tire from a car and attach a rope to it, maybe nylon or something which doesn't rot. You put the tire on a bank downstream and pass the rope through the pipe upstream and tie it to the tree or something. And just leave it there. This way when you need to unclog the pipe you just tie upstream end of the rope to your excavator or a truck and pull the tire through the pipe. It's flexible so it will bend to fit the pipe and you can clean it in minutes with just one pull. After that you just reset and it's ready for unclogging once again when you need it.
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suggest using a stone wall basket to help protect the pipe u put in
sometimes the good old mark 1 &2 hands work the best think i would take out some of the trees around the crossings. thought "oops going to have to unload to get the pu out of the mud" good work, at my parents farm we had a large creek that we had fence crossings on it switched back 4 times in a half mile was ALWAYS a mess. couldnt just fence off one each side either as about twice a year it would flood and get about 10ft over the fence .""Water Dog" had a golden that loved the creek!! you could use a short piece to extend the plastic pipe at the other crossing, MAYBE:) YEAW i think may need to trim out some trees along the path. YES that culvert was pretty much junk i thought it might be usable as a edge for the road at the new pipe ,nope. LOOKING GOOD Have fun with your excavator:)
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This video giving me flashbacks from what I’ve been doing the past few weeks. I think someone had to be air dropping extra debris in to clog up my culverts 😂 Figure out what size culvert you think you need and then get one three sizes larger.
