How to clear a dirt loaded culvert that was neglected for 20+ years. I just found the top end and opened it up and dug dirt out roughly 5 feet, completely clogged. What's /diy/'s solution without breaking the bank and hiring a pressure wash company to colonic it?
Keep digging.
>>3010948Sorry I just typed a short two word post because I'm just coming off a ban and figured it wouldn't go through... I'm assuming you know where the other outlet end of the culvert is? How long is it overall? You can attach a shovel head to a longer pole and just keep working at it, or get a pressure washer yourself and one of those jetting attachments, but it will probably take a good amount of gpm to flush that out in any reasonable time frame.
use a metal bar to poke a chain through and put an old tire on the chain and pull it through with a tractor or a truck or something
>>3010948>>3010949>>3010972Yeah got it, 20' culvert, fuckin packed like my colon was last year when trying keto diet
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>>3010972I know this works well to clear smaller culverts clogged with wet dirt and leaves every few years but I’m not sure, from the pic it seems OP needs to pull about a metric tonne of hard packed dirt >>3010940Hydro vac guys will do it in minutes but it’s probably worth an attempt with a rented high power pressure washer. Depending on the bottom end you may also need a pump if you don’t want to end up in a dirt pool halfway through and if you need to rent both it may be cheaper to get a pro to do it (it’s a smallish job so they sometimes give you a good price if you tell them to do it whenever suits them).If you fit into the inside the pipe yourself you could use a garden auger on a heavy drill but use a battery one and be sure to have a mate standing by to save you when shit goes south.
>>3010972Yeah like the other guy said, this doesn't work for hard packed material. You'll just break your chain and have a tire wedged in there on top of everything else.If you can get a waterhose out there, keep blasting + digging
If there is a pool of water anywhere nearby an engine driven centrifugal trash pump and hose will really blast shit out of there too.
>>3011021>>3011024no water accessible without hauling the water to it. its soft dirt, for what that's worth. 20 feet is a bitch of a thing to get through.
>>3011027Maybe try the chain trick but something smaller than a tire just to get things moving
If we were friends, I would absolutely come out there to dig some dirt and drink some beers.
>>3011027Is it accessible by tank truck? Because hydrovacs carry their own, and it recirculates so they bring like 800 gal but can reuse it basically until it’s too full of sand
>>3011066That shit'll cost you too, might as well have the government drop a nuclear bomb on it. That'll clear it out too! It's a 20' long culvert, he can pick away from it on both sides with a 12' long pipe with something welded on the end and he'll get it eventually. I don't have a pic right now, but I made a long pipe handled scoop that I use for cleaning mud out of 30' long sticks of gated pipe. It's a workout, but it gets the job done. I also built it so it breaks down into two pieces for easier transport, and left a threaded pipe sticking out the handle end where I could in theory attach it to my tow behind compressor and blow dry dirt out the other end of the pipe if I wanted to... Never tried that yet though, because usually I'm too impatient to let it dry fully and am scooping damp mud and sand.
>>3011034This but get the chain through and do kind of a flossing, sawing motion with the chain from either end to break shit up
>>3011019>>3011021if your culvert is packed hard, you dont need a culvert there
>>3011088the fuck I don't. le agua le wants to flow... see after one day of rain, its making a ditch at the corner of the drive, which is why we need this culvert back and flowing
>>3011150[ditch not shown] but this is where the water needs to go, under and out the other side, and not across the road, cutting it
>>3011151After you get it cleared make sure the water can get away and the ditch downstream is lower than the culvert or else it will plug up again. Did they completely neglect keeping the ditch clean and that is what led up to this horrible plugging?
>>301118520 years everything under 2 ft of dirt. 5 ft hole that was there originally buried in sand, where the water could pool and not seep mud into culvert. Mud already filled up what i dug out friday. I got a guy coming with a tractor to dig out the feeder hole back down 5 feet
