Yearly Archives: 2019

How to Install a Blind Inlet

2019-10-07T07:13:31-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: |

 How to Install a Blind Inlet We get a lot of questions about blind inlets. Today is really muddy. We've had this all night and all-day rain. This past weekend was a wet one. So this grass will look great after a couple more rains just from walking it and stomping and it's a bit [...]

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Billy Goat Sod Cutter Review

2019-10-06T20:26:42-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Billy Goat Sod Cutter Review We were going through sod cutter after sod, cutter after sod cutter. Finally, I felt comfortable with the Bluebirds and then we ran the Bluebirds for years. They're pretty solid unit but they're not Hydros. So there were chains and belts that this machine does not have that were always [...]

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How to Use Perforated Corrugated Drainage Pipe to Disperse Water

2019-10-07T07:43:47-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Use Perforated Corrugated Drainage Pipe to Disperse Water All right, we're doing a test. We're taking two leach field manifolds. Okay. See all the water coming right out. We're taking a half-horse Liberty. Look at all the water just pouring out of that. Why is that? Well, you're not supposed to use a [...]

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Which Drainage Pipe Should You Use?

2019-10-06T20:36:04-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Which Drainage Pipe Should You Use? We did a leach field series showing you how to build a yard drain to a leach field, but I'm a little bit concerned because we're selling the leach field manifolds with 8 slot pipe. Now the 8 slots we'll use as a collection pipe, we use knife-cut as [...]

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Why We Work Around the Clock When Excavating Large Pond Digs

2019-10-05T10:15:34-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

Why We Work Around the Clock When Excavating Large Pond Digs Not last night, but the night before we had an all-night rain and we still pushed a lot of dirt because you got to keep the piles knocked down. You know, if the excavator gets too far out in front of the dozer, man, it [...]

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How to Dig a Pond – Part 4

2019-10-05T09:32:05-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , , |

 How to Dig a Pond - Part 4 We now have enough ground opened up. We have more ground opened up right now. This is larger than most ponds for sure. That's just this addition itself, let alone the three acres that we're going to be connecting this to when we go through that dam [...]

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How to Dig a Pond – Part 3

2019-10-05T08:39:38-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , , |

 How to Dig a Pond - Part 3 All right. I'm on the other side of the corner pond. So, you can see how I cut the bank down with the D7 last night so that Francisco can get down in the pond, continue to expand the pond, make it deeper. And what is a [...]

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How to Dig a Pond DIY – Part 2

2019-10-03T22:33:39-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , , |

 How to Dig a Pond DIY - Part 2 Keep in mind when building a pond that the two pieces of equipment that you are going to need and they're going to be running the whole time. You want a pretty big backhoe. This one had 32 feet of reach. I'm not positive on, I [...]

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How to Grow Grass Like the Pros – Part 4

2019-10-03T22:56:59-04:00By |Categories: Turfgrass|Tags: , , |

 How to Grow Grass Like the Pros - Part 4 Quite a difference since the last been here. So my cousin's husband, Tom, he really, really busted his butt on this. He graded everything by hand. See now, because they got straw right here when it rains and you can see it's been raining, there's [...]

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Why Contractors and Homeowners Need to Communicate

2019-10-06T20:43:29-04:00By |Categories: French Drain|Tags: , |

 Why Contractors and Homeowners Need to Communicate 10 days ago I shot a video standing right about here. And we were talking about how we are digging a canal and we were working night and day. I was on the night shift because working the dirt was great. It was a dream and as a [...]

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