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Drainage pipes

  • 18-06-2013 7:05am
    #1
    farmer_dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭


    We need to do some drainage on a very boggy field we have. I'm looking into pipes at the minute and was wondering if those yellow pipes are the only option?

    I thought I seen someone on here who posted up an image of some new type of pipe - possibly located in the west of Ireland somewhere.

    Does anyone know the options for piping - I always think the yellow stuff is prone to collapse.


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  • #2
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    There is a black version that appears to be a little stronger or more flexible than the yellow. before it will collapse. There are different yellow pipe makers also. Any of them are fine if you get them into the ground deep enough without damage


  • #3
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    It could be Connaught agri pipes you were thinking of.

    Here is that thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055988944&highlight=connacht+agri


  • #4
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    jfc have a version out now also


  • #5
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭ABlur


    JFC Plastics do a 4 inch Corripipe its €10 for a 6m length you can drive a truck over it!


  • #6
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    ABlur wrote: »
    JFC Plastics do a 4 inch Corripipe its €10 for a 6m length you can drive a truck over it!

    laid 300m of that jfc 100mm twin wall corrie pipe last week, have to admit its strong, drove over it with tracks of digger and it sprung back to shape, but no need for pipe if the length of the drains are less than 40m just 20mm chip will do


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  • #7
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    severeoversteer wrote: »
    laid 300m of that jfc 100mm twin wall corrie pipe last week, have to admit its strong, drove over it with tracks of digger and it sprung back to shape, but no need for pipe if the length of the drains are less than 40m just 20mm chip will do

    No point putting chip into bog. It will first all clog up with bog mud and then over time it will sink!


  • #8
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    reilig wrote: »
    No point putting chip into bog. It will first all clog up with bog mud and then over time it will sink!

    you are right i didnt read the question ! the ground i was working on was far from bog thank god


  • #9
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    farmer_dave wrote: »
    We need to do some drainage on a very boggy field we have. I'm looking into pipes at the minute and was wondering if those yellow pipes are the only option?

    I thought I seen someone on here who posted up an image of some new type of pipe - possibly located in the west of Ireland somewhere.

    Does anyone know the options for piping - I always think the yellow stuff is prone to collapse.
    How deep is the bog? I ask because I originally thought alot more of my place had deep bog but by opening a few trenches and digging the odd trial hole I found in a lot of places there is only 8-12" of peat on top of clay. Depending on the soil profile you need to look at different drainage stragegies.

    If it is deep bog, the connaught agripipe is supposed to be the business. I heard through the grapevine that a fella who installed it 2/3 years ago in a very wet field was grazing cows in it this Spring. That's some turnaround. My main concern with it is how long will it remain open? Surely at some stage the mesh will get clogged.


  • #10
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    just do it wrote: »
    How deep is the bog? I ask because I originally thought alot more of my place had deep bog but by opening a few trenches and digging the odd trial hole I found in a lot of places there is only 8-12" of peat on top of clay. Depending on the soil profile you need to look at different drainage stragegies.

    If it is deep bog, the connaught agripipe is supposed to be the business. I heard through the grapevine that a fella who installed it 2/3 years ago in a very wet field was grazing cows in it this Spring. That's some turnaround. My main concern with it is how long will it remain open? Surely at some stage the mesh will get clogged.

    Same could be said for the stone regards clogging I would think jd. We have 12 acres of very wet land very like what you had posted the pics of draining. Was hoping to try and do something with it in the next 2 or 3 years cause its useless at the moment, we rent it to a fellow to put in a few horses every winter. I would be happy if I could get it good enough to take a cut of silage off it to so I could graze the farm at home and have the cattle outside the door for most of the summer. For all the stone that surrounds us we are 24 miles from the nearest quarry and haulage for the of stone needed would be a killer, Even at that its limestone and theres so much iron in the water its red so dont think it would work for very long anway. I hope to go and walk somewhere where it has been done with the connaght agri pipe next year and see how it has worked.


  • #11
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Redz
    I've the solution. One of these nights I'm planning on a night time raid of a few acres of golden vale land. They'll never notice it missing and we can split it 50:50:D:D


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  • #12
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    just do it wrote: »
    Redz
    I've the solution. One of these nights I'm planning on a night time raid of a few acres of golden vale land. They'll never notice it missing and we can split it 50:50:D:D

    Sound, Ill bring the bucket and you can bring the shovel :D


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