GazCro
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Finally the weather returms to normal after nearly a year and all everyone does is cry about it
Jimbo69
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A bit damp here today 
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LKSF
Pennine Hillbilly
The reservoirs are filling up nicely.
I don't know whether it's me that's just weird, but I love playing with water and watching it flowing, especially when it's rained as much is it just has.
When I lived in a normal place I used to wander across the road when we had heavy rain and unblock the grate of leaves so the water went down instead of bowling past. As a kids we used to love building dams.
I'm certainly in a good place now (halfway down a hill on the Pennine moors) for watching the water doing it's thing
Some satisfaction to be had watching my newly repaired and laid land drains working.
I was stood in a field yesterday and could hear the water running beneath my feet, there must have been some gap in the ground to let the sound through, but I couldn't find it. It was also bubbling up through the ground in places because of drains partially blocked further down, so couldn't cope with the increased volume. I actually stood on a 3' square of field and found myself floating as if I was on a water bed. The water pressure had detached the turf from the ground allowing me to bounce up and down.
This was last Summer, look at that big boulder there on the right:
This is the damage it's causing though, it's not my beck (or Clough as it's known here), but here I am on my land looking down onto it:
Because it meanders it erodes the land away more and more. I get on ok with the chap that owns it, so hopefully we can sort something out between us.
Problems are that there are new trees planted around it and it's too inaccessible to get in with a machine too so it'll have to be done by hand.
I don't know whether it's me that's just weird, but I love playing with water and watching it flowing, especially when it's rained as much is it just has.
When I lived in a normal place I used to wander across the road when we had heavy rain and unblock the grate of leaves so the water went down instead of bowling past. As a kids we used to love building dams.
I'm certainly in a good place now (halfway down a hill on the Pennine moors) for watching the water doing it's thing
Some satisfaction to be had watching my newly repaired and laid land drains working.I was stood in a field yesterday and could hear the water running beneath my feet, there must have been some gap in the ground to let the sound through, but I couldn't find it. It was also bubbling up through the ground in places because of drains partially blocked further down, so couldn't cope with the increased volume. I actually stood on a 3' square of field and found myself floating as if I was on a water bed. The water pressure had detached the turf from the ground allowing me to bounce up and down.
This was last Summer, look at that big boulder there on the right:
This was the same spot yesterday, you just about see the boulder sticking out:
This is the damage it's causing though, it's not my beck (or Clough as it's known here), but here I am on my land looking down onto it:
Because it meanders it erodes the land away more and more. I get on ok with the chap that owns it, so hopefully we can sort something out between us.
Problems are that there are new trees planted around it and it's too inaccessible to get in with a machine too so it'll have to be done by hand.
Furniss
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No its not just you that likes messing with water ....a long time ago we put a drain across to a river from a bund that water had got behind ...it was a great job esp the break through and watching it magically dissappear 
Lancs Lad
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If you live in Lancashire it's kinda hard to avoid messing with drains...someone asked me once why I had a set of rods permantly connected at the bottom of a hedge line....The reservoirs are filling up nicely.
I don't know whether it's me that's just weird, but I love playing with water and watching it flowing, especially when it's rained as much is it just has.
When I lived in a normal place I used to wander across the road when we had heavy rain and unblock the grate of leaves so the water went down instead of bowling past. As a kids we used to love building dams.
I'm certainly in a good place now (halfway down a hill on the Pennine moors) for watching the water doing it's thing
I was stood in a field yesterday and could hear the water running beneath my feet, there must have been some gap in the ground to let the sound through, but I couldn't find it. It was also bubbling up through the ground in places because of drains partially blocked further down, so couldn't cope with the increased volume. I actually stood on a 3' square of field and found myself floating as if I was on a water bed. The water pressure had detached the turf from the ground allowing me to bounce up and down.
This was last Summer, look at that big boulder there on the right:
This was the same spot yesterday, you just about see the boulder sticking out:
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This is the damage it's causing though, it's not my beck (or Clough as it's known here), but here I am on my land looking down onto it:
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Because it meanders it erodes the land away more and more. I get on ok with the chap that owns it, so hopefully we can sort something out between us.
Problems are that there are new trees planted around it and it's too inaccessible to get in with a machine too so it'll have to be done by hand.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
very satisfying watching the drains you've created in action, carrying away all that water, which would otherwise be doing whatever it wanted and going where you didn't want it
Our first winter here '10/'11 was very wet and gave me the perfect opportunity to study what needed doing .... '11/'12 .. no prob.s all went where I wanted it to
got an original one runs under the lawn, which I keep promising to excavate and clear, 'cos it's patently blocked ... large area of grass floats like a carpet when it really lashes down ... was gonna do it this year with Lil' Jake but a month's covid, followed by 10 days of norovirus and then a stinking cold, saw off the best of the weather, mid July, onwards ....... next year
Our first winter here '10/'11 was very wet and gave me the perfect opportunity to study what needed doing .... '11/'12 .. no prob.s all went where I wanted it to
got an original one runs under the lawn, which I keep promising to excavate and clear, 'cos it's patently blocked ... large area of grass floats like a carpet when it really lashes down ... was gonna do it this year with Lil' Jake but a month's covid, followed by 10 days of norovirus and then a stinking cold, saw off the best of the weather, mid July, onwards
....... next year
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6feetdown
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Will it ever stop we've had some volume of water today inc hail and big thunder
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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6feetdown
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Hoping the workshop isn't floodedand I thought it was just me
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
mine's deffo wet ... puddles everywhere on the patchHoping the workshop isn't flooded
Lancs Lad
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I'm wondering when the ballcock pops up on the reservoirs and it will stop raining ffs
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6feetdown
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Luckily been putting that insulation saw to use lol
TiltyShaun
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Spent the last 2 weeks sinking in Sandy soil that won’t form a heap!!
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bobthebuilder
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had that storm ,a pretty loud crack of thunder and lightning at the same time ,proper wet now
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6feetdown
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Huge crack! Had it off and on with rolling thunder for last cpl of hours
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
we had a couple of massive flashes, with major crashes 'bout ten minutes apart and biblical downpour ... now't since about nine
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DaveDCB
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Digging footings today… concrete on at 1pm, downpour forecast for 2pm , wish me luck 
Left hooker
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Bit wild here 
even the crows and seagulls can't make progress flying
even the crows and seagulls can't make progress flying
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
day dawned bright and blue .............................. didn't last long though
we had the wind last night ...... really glad the polytunnel's anchored to the planet now
we had the wind last night ...... really glad the polytunnel's anchored to the planet now
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6feetdown
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It's dire fairplayday dawned bright and blue .............................. didn't last long though
we had the wind last night ...... really glad the polytunnel's anchored to the planet now
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