Flushing land drains

just do it

Had a good discussion group yesterday discussing land drains. The issue of them blocking due to iron ore came up. Two solutions offered, 1st go deep and get below the iron pan. 2nd flush the drains.

Someone was talking of having a sump at the top end of the drain and flushing them with a vaccum tanker. I tried to get an explanation on this but got lost in the explanation. Set up a sump at the top end? Anyone any ideas on this? Pictures?

bbam

I think it was ear to the ground last year had a farmer from Donegal on.
He had an extra long hose on a reel from his powerwasher, he jetted out the drains from the end on a regular basis.

Thing is, if you had much to do it would be desperately time consuming work.

razor8

bbam wrote: »

I think it was ear to the ground last year had a farmer from Donegal on.
He had an extra long hose on a reel from his powerwasher, he jetted out the drains from the end on a regular basis.

Thing is, if you had much to do it would be desperately time consuming work.

see some guys put on a stand pipe and the start of the drain for flushing, hook up the tanker and wash it out, sounds simple supposed to be big thing in Holland i think

nashmach

If the drain has a regular flow of water, I find that a run of chimney sweep pipes with a cork screw on the end, does a good job.

Certainly helped unblock a few here and have done some for neighbours as well.

49801

just do it wrote: »

Had a good discussion group yesterday discussing land drains. The issue of them blocking due to iron ore came up. Two solutions offered, 1st go deep and get below the iron pan. 2nd flush the drains.

Someone was talking of having a sump at the top end of the drain and flushing them with a vaccum tanker. I tried to get an explanation on this but got lost in the explanation. Set up a sump at the top end? Anyone any ideas on this? Pictures?

only explanation I can think of for the sump would be to catch deposties during the jetting.
There are tractor mounted jetters suited to the job like in the clip below

just do it

bbam wrote: »

I think it was ear to the ground last year had a farmer from Donegal on.
He had an extra long hose on a reel from his powerwasher, he jetted out the drains from the end on a regular basis.

Thing is, if you had much to do it would be desperately time consuming work.

The journal did an article on him a few months ago as well. He'd a hell of alot of drains and was full time so could justify it. I don't think there is a contractor with gear locally, and even if there was I'm not sure I could justify the cost!

Hence the interest in this alternate solution. I've JFC smooth walled corripipes put down so they should help but one drain in particular is 150m long with hardly any gradient and I can see iron water in the trenches. A simple flushing from the high end when the tanker is in seems like a good option.

just do it

razor8 wrote: »

see some guys put on a stand pipe and the start of the drain for flushing, hook up the tanker and wash it out, sounds simple supposed to be big thing in Holland i think

Forgive my ignorance but what's a stand pipe? Sounds like what I've in mind...

razor8

just do it wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance but what's a stand pipe? Sounds like what I've in mind...

something similar to a hydrant, you can screw on a pipe like the fire brigade would

who the fug

Would not the cheap solution be a 70 feet of wavin hose to rod the the pipe, like we use to do

Milked out

The iron seems to clog the slits in the drainage pipe so clearing with rods isn't as effective, We have the same problem down here with 6 inch drainage pipe, flow after slowing severely, would like to see if that power washer style hose would do the trick