Drain jetting.

Blackgrass

Hi, recently had a neighbour just over the hedge using a drain jetter along a ditch we share before christmass. Poked t up an outlet on our sie and was quiet shocked by the amount of silt and sand stuck inside and amount of water that it lit away after. This would only by 5 years old 6'' with 4'' runs of at 45degree every 5m for 10m in particular area of field.
Were thinking of rigging up something to try out, anyone ever used one?

tomieen jones

Flushing the drain with a vacuum tanker of river water

Blackgrass

tomieen jones wrote: »

Flushing the drain with a vacuum tanker of river water

Pretty much along those lines, had a roll of black polythene piping with a 'jet' on end hooked to water bowser and petrol pressure washer pump

onyerbikepat

Blackgrass wrote: »

Pretty much along those lines, had a roll of black polythene piping with a 'jet' on end hooked to water bowser and petrol pressure washer pump

The pressure rating of the hose should, at least, match the pressure from pressure washer. Remember water jet is used to cut through steel. Just be careful!

Milton09

I used to be experimenting with pressure washers, tankers etc to flush out pipes but last September I got these guys in www.landdrainflushing.ie
Unreal the amount of silt and iron deposits they shifted from relatively new land drains.

Driver was making a similar point about the pressure saying most pressure washers have too high pressure and too low flow, the stuff in the pipe
is generally not hard shifted so no need for pressure but you do need high flow to transport it out.

st1979

Have pto power washer that does 4000psi and nearly 30l a min. bought drain jetter nozzle from eBay to suit. It actually came from company in sligo that makes them. ab jets or something. Bloody good yoke. Pulls itself up pipe very well. Only cost 25ish euro delivered. haven't used it on field drains but reckon it would work well enough

GreenPower15

We'll say now lads or ladies we have a lot of old drains there the last few installed in the late 90's, now alot of them could be older than this, most of them are probably blocked, but some still flow a bit seems to be alot of red iron in them would drain cleaners be worth a go??

Markcheese

Is it expensive - pay by the hour I suppose ?

Milton09

GreenPower15 wrote: »

We'll say now lads or ladies we have a lot of old drains there the last few installed in the late 90's, now alot of them could be older than this, most of them are probably blocked, but some still flow a bit seems to be alot of red iron in them would drain cleaners be worth a go??

From what I've seen short answer would be yes.

GreenPower15

Milton09 wrote: »

From what I've seen short answer would be yes.

Does the drain flow quite well afterwards? and how long roughly would a typical drain take to clean with these machines?

Milton09

GreenPower15 wrote: »

Does the drain flow quite well afterwards? and how long roughly would a typical drain take to clean with these machines?

Unusually my land was bone dry when I got the flushing done so some of the drains didn't flow much directly afterwards, others in more boggy ground did flow notably better. All are flowing very well now. One drain had been blocked about 30m in and the machine could not get any further. I dug it up later and found the pipe crushed by a big stone. As regards time I was told average 2-300 meters per hour and I'd say that's about right.

Blackgrass

Thanks was buisy to reply...
o more about flow have pressure?! have 2 big ouput pumps also for ransfering water so not too big an issue.