Put in a Dry Creek Bed This Week

[tdw28210]

Rented mini excavator and end-loader and 5 tons of Tennessee River Gravel and Ta-Dah! A 75 foot dry creek bed between the neighbor's and mine recently installed engineered retaining walls.

[tdw28210]

MODS PLEASE DELETE DUPLICATE POSTS. Phone thread starting sucks.

[JackDidley]

I thought you did 3 creek beds....

[dad911]

And how did you get all that rock to stick on a wall?

Was your neighbor nice enough to split the bill?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by tdw28210

Rented mini excavator and end-loader and 5 tons of Tennessee River Gravel ....

A prudent man would have probaby just purchased the gravel instead of just renting .

Nice job....does water actually flow there during storm runoffs?

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by KC911

A prudent man would have probaby just purchased the gravel instead of just renting .

Nice job....does water actually flow there during storm runoffs?

Reminds of a saying I head from a stockbroker back in the 90's.... "If it flys, floats or f***S , RENT IT!"

Yeah, the water does drain down it. Our two driveways are next to each other and are both graded to drain towards this side yard. They will both run off into the creek bed now.

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by dad911

And how did you get all that rock to stick on a wall?

Was your neighbor nice enough to split the bill?

That rock is just sitting atop the clay soil. The main bed was compacted, but not the part close to the wall.

And the neighbor did agree to split the cost.

[Seahawk]

That looks really well done.

I love mini excavators!

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

That looks really well done.

I love mini excavators!

Thanks for the compliment. I left some of the tree roots in place to give it a more natural look.

I want a mini-excavator and/or a mini-skid steer. The same neighbor had a sprinkler system put in their backyard yesterday by a company with a tracked mini skid steer (aka "dingo") and an attachment that both trenched and laid the irrigation pipe at the same time. It literally took them 30 minutes to lay the pipe down with this machine. You can bolt all kinds of things to the front end of a mini skid. Buckets, forks, trenchers. Supper cool.

[Tobra]

My office manager just had that done at her house. It is terraced with a nice rock wall and a ditch full of rocks on either side of the house. Father in law in Texas has a similar drain he did with his tractor. I have seen it in action during a catastrophic flood, very efficient.

I remember doing some french drains in our back yard as a kid. Oldest brother drives us to the river. Mom's car, '72 Fleetwood, enormous, you could put a mini Cooper in the trunk of that thing, hauled the rock in that. Our excavator was two shovels and a pickax, with buckets to haul the dirt.

[Scott Douglas]

Just trying to keep the flow going the right direction here.
Nice creek bed.

[VINMAN]

I like it!!

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[tevake]

Nice feature to add to delineate the different properties. Good looking River Rock, nice job!

Much better doing with the right machine, much better than pick and shovel!

Cheers Richard