Monthly Archives: September 2019

Yard Drain French Drain – Move More Water With Less Labor and Money

2019-09-24T23:26:18-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 Yard Drain French Drain - Move More Water With Less Labor and Money Welcome to the French Drain Man channel. I'm Robert Sherwood and I'm here to help you save money. Put in the yard drain that moves more water and less labor. We were using larger and larger aggregate to increase the amount of [...]

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Yard Drain, French Drain

2019-09-24T23:12:03-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

Yard Drain, French Drain We have a lot of sheet water coming off this large driveway. It has a cobblestone open French drain, but here's the problem. We didn't do that. All this water is being discharged where this retaining wall is. This is a second wall too and it's leaning and it's failing because of [...]

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How to Use a High Water Alarm

2019-09-24T06:36:51-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , |

 How to Use a High Water Alarm These high water alarms are just great. People can just test it, make sure that it works. When you're on the lake and you're pumping water all the time, it's hard to sleep at night. You worry if that pump goes. So this has a float that goes [...]

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How to Build a Commercial Water Feature

2019-09-24T06:28:27-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Build a Commercial Water Feature I'm running with Scott heading out to Lansing. Scott's got his dump trailer, well it's a gooseneck, he's got it full, full of cobblestone. I'm running the 10 ton so we can load up the equipment. We're going to finish up Zach's waterfall project, detail it out, give [...]

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How to Wire an Outdoor Sump Pump System

2019-09-23T10:06:03-04:00By |Categories: Sump Pump|Tags: , , , , |

How to Wire an Outdoor Sump Pump System Some of the comments in the comment section, people want to know how do you wire an outdoor sump pump. We have the inlet for the Baughman High Octane 8-Slot Pipe and then that water will fall to the bottom and we lift it with a half-horse Liberty [...]

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How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain

2019-09-23T09:28:29-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

 How to Run a Downspout in a French Drain Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. When Francisco digs and he can feel when he grabs a sprinkler line, that Kubota U17 is really sensitive and it, because it doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. That's actually a plus that you could tell when you grab a [...]

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How to Grow Grass Like the Pros – Part 1

2019-09-22T18:36:51-04:00By |Categories: Turfgrass|Tags: , , , |

 How to Grow Grass Like the Pros - Part 1 I've had a few requests where subscribers wanted me to talk about how to grow really nice turf. So whenever the subscribers want something, you know, I set out to do it. I have a cousin, they just built a new home in Macomb, Michigan, [...]

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Farm Drainage Tile – Baughman AG (Agricultural) Pipe

2019-09-21T16:25:19-04:00By |Categories: Baughman Tile Company|Tags: , |

 Farm Drainage Tile - Baughman AG (Agricultural) Pipe I just wanted to share with everybody where Baughman came from, where they currently still dominate. Since 1883 they've been making tile for farm drainage, agricultural. Now they've entered the yard drainage. Thanks to all our subscribers. You guys kept calling, ringing their phone off the hook. [...]

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How to Deal with a Sprinkler System in a French Drain

2019-09-21T08:53:52-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 How to Deal with a Sprinkler System in a French Drain I had a young contractor in Troy, Michigan wanted to know how we deal with the sprinklers. Francisco can feel when there's a sprinkler there, the Kubota U17 doesn't have a lot of breakout for us. Sometimes you know, sometimes you wish it had [...]

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What Happens When You Bury Yard Drainage Pipe Too Shallow

2019-09-21T07:53:56-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 What Happens When You Bury Yard Drainage Pipe Too Shallow In the north, if you don't bury your drain pipe, this is what happens when it's too shallow and you don't bury it deep enough. This is a job that we're going to redo. When it's hard ground, like the clay that we're typically working [...]

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