drainage/trenchers

amacca

Hi,

I'm thinking of doing some drainage on a piece of land...made a decent job of it on anther section last time using a digger

but it was very work intensive and left an awful lot of levelling/cleanup afterwards + stone picking etc etc for 60 metres of a trench + grass taking a while to come back


just wondering if a trencher might do a better job with less work involved + is there anywhere they can be rented + what sort of money would one cost

bogman_bass

dont know if you wcan hire one to self drive. you would need a tractor with a crawler box fitted.

Flynns in mullingar were (maybe still are) selling some resently which are higth adjusted by laser. might be worth giving them a call. they might point you in the right direction

case956tom

amacca wrote: »

Hi,

I'm thinking of doing some drainage on a piece of land...made a decent job of it last time using a digger

but it was very work intensive and left an awful lot of levelling/cleanup afterwards + stone picking etc etc for 60 metres of a trench + grass taking a while to come back


just wondering if a trencher might do a better job with less work involved + is there anywhere they can be rented + what sort of money would one cost

is it a gravel mole plough you mean instead of a trencher? something like this
http://www.oke.ie/gravelmole_plough.html

amacca

case956tom wrote: »

is it a gravel mole plough you mean instead of a trencher? something like this
http://www.oke.ie/gravelmole_plough.html

no it wasn't tbh but thats an interesting looking thing.......dont suppose I could use that or something like it maybe without the hopper to sink a bit of that connacht agri pipe?


previously and its still working well I got a digger dug deep trenches before adding pipe and then topping up with large gravel chips almost to the surface but it was a messy work intensive job....would like something that i could dig the trenches with the correct fall without too much surface damage, lay the pipe and then backfill without spending weeks and weeks on and off at it

its to get rid of two ever expanding soft patches in a field growing fresh rushes year on year that are a bit like an itch I cant seem to scratch at this stage due to other commitments....would dearly love to be able to walk through those patches without fear of losing my wellingtons in the muck

case956tom

amacca wrote: »

no it wasn't tbh but thats an interesting looking thing.......dont suppose I could use that or something like it maybe without the hopper to sink a bit of that connacht agri pipe?


previously and its still working well I got a digger dug deep trenches before adding pipe and then topping up with large gravel chips almost to the surface but it was a messy work intensive job....would like something that i could dig the trenches with the correct fall without too much surface damage, lay the pipe and then backfill without spending weeks and weeks on and off at it

its to get rid of two ever expanding soft patches in a field growing fresh rushes year on year that are a bit like an itch I cant seem to scratch at this stage due to other commitments....would dearly love to be able to walk through those patches without fear of losing my wellingtons in the muck

as far as i know you have to dig shores for connacht agri pipes and backfill with soil was thinking of using them myself.any trencher i have seen uses coils of pipe it will dig shores similar to what a digger will dig, some of them might only leave the dirt beside the shore so wouldnt be any tidier than a digger some trenchers fill the shore with gravel you might need a digger to clean up after too,i dont know where you could hire one out most will be owned by a drainage contractor.