DIY Backyard Drainage Swale SUCCESS!!

[@aaronburford5701]

Absolutely love the commentary! You sharing your strategy process makes this video for me sir! Great Job!

[@pmtips4482]

I appreciate that!

[@aaronburford5701]

@@pmtips4482 Learned alot from your instructions and directions. Road looks great! Keep sharing..

[@akmccutcheon153]

tilted boxblade would have been your best friend right here

[@pmtips4482]

Yes it sure would! Thanks!

[@tomgaffney6570]

Well done, very helpful ! Doing a similar project next week. Much appreciated, thank you !

[@pmtips4482]

Glad it helped! Work safe!

[@aaronburford5701]

Rewatched! Love this video! Great information shared!

[@pmtips4482]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@bb67572008]

Double Working yourself / box blade in the center ,tighten 3 point at an angle and pull dirt out

[@pmtips4482]

That would work slick as anything. Thanks for the idea!

[@Mark.Watson]

Nice video. I'm working on a much smaller swale. Still, hard to believe how much dirt that needs to be removed to get that gentle slope.

[@pmtips4482]

Best of luck to you on your project! Thanks for watching!

[@aaronburford5701]

Thank you for the commentary! Love the information! Great video sir! I am a fan a d will like and subscribe!

[@pmtips4482]

Awesome, thank you!

[@tnt666tnt]

great job. think you convinced me I need a tiller for my 1025r.

[@pmtips4482]

Uh oh.........if you get the tiller, you'll feel obligated to have a garden :) Just kidding! Thanks for watching! Have a good one!!

[@marlboromatt5656]

Great job!! I need to do this .Maybe I won’t need my French drain at all if I do this

[@pmtips4482]

MM, depending on your terrain and amount of fall, a swale could be your answer. It will be so much cheaper too. OTOH, subsurface water can be real tricky to handle. Thanks for watching and good luck to you if you try it!!

[@LureThosePixels]

Not sure if you mentioned, but are you going to put plants on the house side of the ditch? Could lower the water table nicely

[@theforexlife3244]

Next time instead of putting toxic weed killer down just put a black tarp down, the humidity sprouts unopened seeds they cant get light to photosynthesise and die off as well as existing weeds. 3 weeks max and the jobs done way better than the chemicals

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks for the information!

[@nancykramer625]

So, can you rent a roller like the one you used to compact the soil? I'm trying to improve the area in front of my loafing shed.

[@pmtips4482]

I would check with your nearest tool rental place and see. You may have to go with a lawn contractor to prep the area for you. Thanks for watching!

[@nancykramer625]

@@pmtips4482 thank you!!

[@nickpanhead7209]

Nice job, I live off the side of a mountain in NYS and for some reason I have water coming across my property now. It makes it a pain in a butt to cut my grass everything is wet . Never had this issue and I'm here 12 years, not sure if a swell would help or should I do a drainage tile. For now I'm waiting for it to dry up hopefully in August I could start doing one or the other. What do you think might be best for me. How does yours look today, any follow up video

[@pmtips4482]

Hi Nick, it sounds like runoff is creating all your problems, and if so, a drainage ditch (swale) could easily take care of the problem. The thing to consider is, is your water surface or subsurface, or a combination of both. The swale should be the easiest and least costly method to divert the runoff. My swale has taken the work pressure off my sump pump during hard rains, probably 90 percent. The first 14 days of July this year, we got 9.4 inches of rain, a near record amount and the sump worked very little. This was because the rains came fast and hard and my swale diverted most of the water away from the house foundation. The swale will move hundreds of gallons of rain water away and off your property if you have a good place to terminate the ditch. If your water problem is subsurface, then I think you need to research a french drain, also called intercept drain and curtain drain. Different parts of the country will call these different names. Same with swale (ditch). Thank you for watching! Good luck with your project!

[@pmtips4482]

I also want to add, if you can actually see the rain water running on the surface, then the swale is worth considering. Thanks!

[@nickpanhead7209]

@@pmtips4482 thank you for getting back to me, I believe it's surface water when I walk over there I could feel it under my feet. It's not around my house I'm great full of that. And yes I can drain it down to my main road. We got a lot of water up here to this month of July. Need for it to dry out before I attempt anything. Thanks again and be safe, nice work

[@pmtips4482]

@@nickpanhead7209 I hear you! It sure has been a wet July. Thanks again for watching and best of luck to you on your project!

[@A-1-C-2]

I love

[@andrewe2643]

"hydrostatic water pressure"

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks for watching!

[@rosspimental8384]

You have good soil. I’m cursed with clay.

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks for watching!

[@MartinBeechinTN]

How did it turn out when the grass fill in?

[@pmtips4482]

Very good, it's always a crap shoot when buying grass seed in southern Indiana, but the end result was good. Thanks for watching!

[@shannonsexton8921]

This ditch is good for you, but not a swale. Swales are on contour to hold water.

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks!

[@warrenmichael918]

holy cow all the weed killer hate !! Nice video, you didnt use enough weed killer to do any harm. Maybe if you had a job where you were using it weekly or using it at the same place over and over it might effect the water but this tiny little job didnt hurt anyone except the commenters in here and their feelings...lol

[@pmtips4482]

I agree! Thanks for watching!

[@kerrystark8150]

Nice! Thanks for the video, but please stop using glyphosate 🙏🏻

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks for watching!

[@mirandamassoo7136]

No to weed killer! Otherwise, nice swale 😊

[@pmtips4482]

Thanks for watching!

[@guniopoyuki6544]

Glyphosate the largest cancer causing chemical you could have used

[@pmtips4482]

We will use a different method for future projects. Thanks!

[@dannycottrell4387]

I have a like comment above and I have stage 4 cancer.

[@kimette712]

Weed killer has been proven to cause gut permeability... that means it puts holes in your intestines. Please don't use it.

[@catherinec7509]

Seriously using weed killer? You took a completely natural approach and ruined it with a poison. A rototiller would have done the same job. I have seen it done that way.

[@pmtips4482]

You're right. The tilling is just easier after the grass kill. Thanks!

[@REALBanannaman]

boomer stop using glysophate

[@pmtips4482]

Okay :)