Installing A Culvert And Driveway - Hand Tools Only
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Culvert And Driveway Installation - Hand Tools Only Episode 18
*Shout out for two other Homesteading Channels at end of video.
A quick video on how I installed a culvert and driveway on our property across the street from our cabin where the greenhouse is. The project was done with hand tools only and I also used broken concrete that we had saved from a patio removal that we did in Seattle.
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That looks awesome! Very impressive since was all done by hand. Great job!
Lot of work in that drive way, it came out fantastic. Thank you for sharing how you did it.
Yeah, that was a big job. Thanks for checking out the video.
This video was SO helpful for me. Thank you!!!
That's great to hear. Thank you for commenting.
Thank you it’s so helpful I also got problem with my driveway will share this with the boys so they can try to sort ours …..
That's good to hear. 👍 Good luck with your project.
We're buying land soon and it needs a driveway installed, This really helped thank you!
Always good to hear that the video was helpful. Thank you for commenting. Good luck with your new property.🙂👍
Thanks for posting this video! Looks great:) Just curious, did you have temporarily dam or divert the water in order to install your pipe? Or is this culvert mainly to move heavy rainfalls safely away?
Thank you! The culvert is dry until heavy rains come so that was very helpful.
Great job, thank you for the ideal. I appreciate your work
Nice and beautiful job!! Now I have more ideas.
Thank you! I'm always glad to hear that this video helped or gave someone more ideas for their project.
This is good info for us Jay. We have three culverts like this on our laneway. Two of which need to be fixed up this season. Thanks for sharing!
And thanks for the shout out, you guys are great folks!
Dans Bois Homestead ... You are welcome. If I do another one sometime, I’m going to go for a larger diameter pipe just to be safe. I looked at it during a really hard rain storm and it was still fine but I’d feel better leaving extra room to be safe.
Yes very impressive and very informative !!and thank you so much for the shout out of our Red Boots Homestead Channel!! You guys are so awesome!! Happy Easter to your awesome Homestead!!
Nice Job me and my friend want to do one at his house video is very helpful we are going to use your video to do his culvert and how much did the whole job cost a ruff estimate would be very helpful for us thank you very much
I should have kept better track of costs. It's been 5 years but I'm guessing (rough guess) somewhere around $1100 total. Two culvert pipes, 1 coupler, two loads of gravel, delivery fees, ground cloth, a few bags of concrete. Delivery fee was only around $100. Our road maintenance guy hooked me up with his driver. The concrete was free. The culvert pipe has probably doubled in price since I did this project.
Do you know what the carrying capacity is of the bridge? Would a bus full of people be able to cross through?
The carrying capacity of this driveway?
EXCELLENT WILL USE THIS VIDEO FOR MY CULVERT, THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO
Great to hear that the video was helpful. Good luck with your project.
Hey thanks for this!
Hey thanx Jay!....just doing a lil research on culverts/natural stone work...ours is a 4ft by 20ft for our mountain home..all we need now is to mortar in some rocks from the property...🤣this aught to be fun!....thanx again!...hugs from Colorado!...oh btw,you done using that tamper thing?!🤣💜💕
Glad that this video was helpful. It was a lot of work but it was a great learning experience. Good luck with your project! I would let you borrow the tamper if you want to swing by. Haha!
What if I just use soil alone to cover a concrete 6:55 culvert?
Not sure. I guess it would depend on the soil and your weather conditions. If you get a lot of rain it could wash away. If it's pretty dry most of the time it would probably work.
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This has been the only helpful video on UA-cam. Other videos use excavators and have tri-axle trucks deliver the gravel and the gravel dumped right on the spot. Like, I'm working on a shoestring budget and a beat down f150 here lol.
😁 Hey thanks a lot for commenting. Its always good to hear that a video was helpful.
Every 20' culvert has a coupler made into one end.
Great video! Thank you for making it.
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I’m wanting to put drainage on either side of my driveway so I can mow to the road easier. It would be a span of 150’ with my driveway included in the distance. My driveway is fine; just want to fill in the ditch with dirt on top of whatever drainage I choose. Got any ideas?
I'm not really sure. You might be able to find a video on youtube about drainage for driveways.
Looks good. Way too much work!
Thank you
That was very helpful...we have one that we need to do...if you don't mind we will copy what you did and maybe that will stop it from trying to wash out the pipe when it rains for days and days....thanks a bunch
I'm glad it was helpful. The used broken concrete wall has held up very well to water pressure from the heavy rains sending a torrent of water down the ditch. And the driveway has remained stable so it all worked out nicely. Compaction around the pipe and throughout the whole build really is the key. Good luck you guys!
Nice and beautiful job!! Now I have more ideas.
What did it end up costing?
I don't remember now. But I think I got the culvert pipe for $200 and the rock cost me about 4- 500 including trucking. That's my best guess anyway. I hauled several loads of broken concrete chunks from Seattle and that was a lot of work.
Thank you. It looks fabulous
Thank you for checking out the video and commenting.
Will you need to put some rip-rap on the sides of the culvert to help prevent erosion and seepage?
Definitely need to do that still. Especially on the exit side. The hill side below our Greenhouse is showing signs of erosion. I was looking at it yesterday and trying to decide if I want to use more broken concrete. I have a place where I can get as much as I need. Thanks Paul!
I watched another vid and they put a large sheet of the landscape fabric over the pipe instead of under it and wondering which is correct. nicely done video .
I don't know if it was even necessary since the pipe did not have any perforated slits in it. My thought was to lay it over the bottom layer of gravel to keep that base layer of gravel from being infiltrated with dirt and mud from water seepage over time. But again, maybe not an issue. Here is a link to an ADS Pipe installation video that might be helpful. They don't use any fabric/cloth. Thanks for watching! ua-cam.com/video/r817BfCtRGU/v-deo.html
Nice job, Jay ...Homesteading work is never done, is it ? :) nice video, thanks for sharing
BB's Back to Basics ... it’s definitely a lifelong project. But I really love it. Thanks for checking out the video!
I just love these types of videos. very informative. feel like i could do this now.
That is great to hear. Thank you so much for watching and subscribing.
Thanks for the helpful video! You said your neighbor moved that boulder with his van?! Does he still have axles after that? And did he just toss it in the rear door? Lol how did he do that with a van?
Good to hear that it was helpful. The neighbor wrapped chains around the boulder and just kept on tugging until it broke loose. His van was full of sandstone blocks that he had spent all night loading into his van. The power of Meth. It was amazing and hilarious to watch. The van ran for several months after that until he wrecked it.
Dang...i’ll have to try Meth
@@sline00 Haha! No!
Thanks buddy. I appreciate this video. Comes in handy for my project.
Gerasimos Christoforatos That’s good to hear. Thanks for checking out the video and good luck with your project.
Looks great! Love your work. What type of weight can cross this type of setup, any idea? I have a couple similar that I’m needing to do to reach my cabin build site and ideally would like to get a cement truck back there at least once for the simple foundation! Thanks man
Thank you! I appreciate it. I'm really not sure about the weight limit for the driveway. I think with all of the broken concrete chunks and all of the compacting of the gravel that I did it could withstand the weight of a cement truck if our driveway was flat. There is no way a cement truck could angle in and up our little driveway though. He would probably start digging in with the wheels if he could make the tight turn. I back our Xterra up the driveway and if going too slow I start to dig into the gravel a bit with my tires. From what I found on the subject, compaction is a key element to the pipe not collapsing under a heavy load. I compacted at several different stages...dirt in the ditch, first layer of gravel, gravel on top of concrete chunks, and then continued to compact every time that I laid down a few more inches of gravel. I didn't want to have to redo that thing after so much work. Hopefully this helps. Good luck!
Almost Homestead thanks so much for the reply! Appreciate it 👍🏼
@@ImaginaryHouse My pleasure.
Very much appreciated, brother !
Wulfy
Thank you for checking out the video.
Hey buddy. Great job 1 question if I May? . How did you determine the size of the pipe to use
Thank you. I went with the size of another culvert pipe a few lots up. And I also considered what I had observed in that ditch during heavy rains. We had extreme rain up here a month ago and it held up during that. I would say, go a little bigger then what you think you should, to make sure it can handle some extreme weather event. Hope that helps.
@@AlmostHomestead I see. I agree that going a little bigger is most likely the best practice.
I am soon to start hand digging a driveway over a ditch and up 200 foot of hillside..
Just me and some hand tools... it's going to be lots of fun 😉
That came out great Jay. You get a good amount of water through there.
DOWNTOWN TO SMALLTOWN FARMING ... Thank you. It’s pretty much a rain forest here. 🙂
Nice job Jay, especially doing it all by hand, can't have been easy, there's a lot of work gone into it, would it have been better to hire a whacker plate to pack all that in as you were doing it , also do you think you'll ever build up the two sides of the culvert, it might look nice with stone , thanks for the video , well done :)
Hey Thank you! It was a lot of work for sure. I had already moved all of those concrete piles twice before. Haha! Building up the sides would look really nice. Hadn't planned on doing that but I like the idea a lot. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just wanted to add, I've watched a lot of you tube videos of different people doing jobs and they use a whole lot of machinery to do their work for them, then they show their video in fast forward or whatever it's called and it's all so easy for them, but you, I really enjoyed seeing a shovel and wheelbarrow, that's honest to God hard work, no tractor with front bucket or back hoe to make life easy,, so well done to you buddy :)
@@liamc-rb9tz Thanks! It did feel really good to accomplish such a project all by hand. 👍😀
Looks like a job well done. Thanks for sharing.
Micro Homesteaders ...Thank you for watching 👍
Thanks for sharing. I’m about to do this on my homestead.
Michael Adair Oh cool! Hopefully my video helped a bit. The driveway is still working perfectly and the drain pipe keeps the water flowing. Thanks for watching and commenting! Good luck with your project. 👍
Wooooow you did a awesome job I’m really impressed
Makeyla Cobos Thank you so much. 😁
Looks awesome brother!
Thank you!
Nicely done!!! TFS ~Lisa
Lisa Booker ...Thank you Lisa!
Doing this soon. 💪
Good luck.
Good job Jay. Inspiration!
Derek Cook Thank you Derek. It was a lot of work but it was a fun project to try and tackle.
Awesome job.
Thank you for checking out our videos and commenting. Much appreciated.
Looks fantastic great job.
Thank you Debbie. It felt good to get that finished.
Thanks!
You are welcome. Thanks for checking out the video.
Big job! Nice one too~
Thank you Randall. It was a great learning experience.
thank you for sharing...
Another one that went to the spam folder. Jeepers!
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Kind of weird that they suddenly decided to flag your comments as spam.
Where I live, those rigid ends built of concrete and mortar are not allowed. The county road commission doesn't want any structure within the right-of-way that will tend to make the injuries of anyone who drives off the road into the ditch more severe.
Gr8 job!!!
Thank you. I was really happy with ho this project turned out.
@@AlmostHomestead I have a similar project on my place in Tennessee. Think I'll use ur ideas.
@@christdriven8790 I'm glad that the video was helpful. Good luck with your project!
Very nice video! How much did the total project cost you?
Binah Everlasting I’m guesstimating about $350.00 -$400.00. Pipe around $175.00, gravel $200.00, and several bags of quickrete at $3.00 each.
Looks great, better than some of the pros do, awesome effort.
Hey thanks Steve! Much appreciated.
Impressive!
Evan's Homestead ... Thanks Evan.