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Re: OT --corral too muddy, how to improve?


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Posted by Jerry/MT on February 09, 2008 at 10:58:05 from (206.183.116.129):

In Reply to: OT --corral too muddy, how to improve? posted by midlam on February 09, 2008 at 06:07:47:

I don"t know what you mean by "chips".

If I were you, I"d lay 1-1/4 ballast rock( no fines) down first then make a groove in them and lay the pipe in the groove and add more ballast then put the landscape cloth over that. (You want the landscape cloth to act as a filter for the dirt so you drains don"t get clogged with it.) I lived in an 80 inch rainfall area that"s how the excavating contractors handled wet spots.

I can tell you what I"m doing as I build my working corral. I have scraped off about 12-15 inches of top soil. I am planning on bringing in 12-15 inches of sand. If I had any low spots that will tend to collect water, I would dig them out about 6-8 additional inches, bring in 1-1/4 inch ballast, lay a drain pipe in a groove on that, connecting it to a lower spot so that water drains away, add more ballast, cover with landscape cloth and then cover with sand.
I live in a ~16 inches of annual rain area so I think what I"m doing will work well for me. If you live in a higher annual rain fall area you may want to slope the corral toward the middle, bring in ballast, lay it down 5-8feet from the centerline and about a foot deep, groove it along the centerline and lay in your drain pipe and drain to a low spot outside of the corral, cover with more balast, then landscape cloth that sand. Your local NRCS or Conservation District should be able to provide you with recommendations.
Hope this helps you.


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