An open ditch or swale is fine, it’s just pasture anyway. I first need to clean the area out as it has become the scrap pile for things needing to go to the scrap yard or dump
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 11, 2021, at 3:06 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > You need gutters on the roof with drains to carry the water to lower ground. > > If there is a path to lower ground and you don't mind an open ditch that > would be easiest. Maybe a more gentle "swale" you could plant grass in so it > isn't so ugly as an open dirt ditch. > > Allan > > >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, at 10:14 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> You think that would be better than just cutting a drainage ditch to let it >> drain? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Jul 11, 2021, at 9:05 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Get a roll of drain tubing and rent a Ditch Witch for a day. Run a drain >>> tile from that area out to the road or to the pond. >>> >>> -D >>> >>>> On Jul 11, 2021, at 10:02 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was talking the neighbor the other day and he said he didn’t understand >>>> why they didn’t build the pond in that area behind the shop where all the >>>> water runs too instead of at the opposite end of the property. I should >>>> look into building another one. I wonder how much that costs. >>>> >>>> The levees themselves are fine. It’s just the water that runs off the roof >>>> of the shop collects between the shop and the levee and gets up to the >>>> level of the concrete pad then starts coming in. I went back out last >>>> night and the water is all run out for the most part. Will air it out >>>> today. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>>> On Jul 11, 2021, at 8:56 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes >>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hope you get that figured out, sounds pretty miserable. Are you allowed >>>>> to >>>>> dig out a big pond / drainage area? I'd think about that, create a nice >>>>> big pond, and then all that dirt that is dug out can be used to build up >>>>> your levees and such to keep water out of the shop. May need to use some >>>>> ancient Egyptian technology to get your elevations correct. >>>>> >>>>> Not a solution to flooding, but have you thought about pouring a concrete >>>>> floor in the shop? >>>>> ------------- >>>>> Max >>>>> Charleston SC >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 7:31 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < >>>>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Went out to the shop just now and it’s got an inch or 2 of water in it. >>>>>> On >>>>>> the back side of the shop there is an overhead door that I never use. In >>>>>> the pasture behind that the water from the back average drains in that >>>>>> area >>>>>> toward the road. There is some dirt work done next to the shop, basically >>>>>> they built a small levee behind the barn and shop to direct water toward >>>>>> the road instead of in the shop. The problem is there is a space about 5 >>>>>> feet wide between the backside of this and the shop that water will pond >>>>>> and if it gets up to the door will come in. I have not seen it this bad >>>>>> before but I have been meaning to see if I can get an angle blade for the >>>>>> tractor and cut a ditch at the end of the shop to let this water drain >>>>>> out >>>>>> toward the road instead of getting deep enough to get into the shop. The >>>>>> closed overhead door on the opposite wall was holding water in so I >>>>>> cracked >>>>>> it open to allow it just flow out the other side. I need to solve this >>>>>> problem ASAP so this does not continue to happen. Water also runs thru >>>>>> the >>>>>> barn which I would like to stop. It also has this levee behind and to the >>>>>> high side of the barn but still gets water thru it. I think it’s runoff >>>>>> from the roof. For that I’m probably going to need to haul in some dirt >>>>>> to >>>>>> build up the level of the dirt floor inside the shop so water does not >>>>>> come >>>>>> in. After it does, it’s literally a mud pit in there. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
