Many Thanks for the update......My.....you don't know how badly I would love to have a hammock under your lean-to for a nice little afternoon nap. The sound of the rain on the roof and the running water.........Ahhh........Sounds delightful. Grass looks great!!
Toby, the drain is working great and so is Sr’s compost. You guys do everything to profection. That’s why I enjoy your channel sooooo much. Thanks for the update on how well the drainage system works.
Thanks for the update, Squatch Particularly because there's only one type of weather that will test out the drainage Your dedication to the members is commendable and I hope you didn't get too wet 👍
My friend has decided to go without gutters on his brand new house build. He wants to use the exact same system that you have built here to remove water from around his home. I am glad to see you did this and that it works this well.
I really appreciate how you approach your projects. You think it through and execute accordingly. I try to approach my projects so they do not require going back to redo something or start all over again.
Great job. Of course, we all knew that it would work. Your planning has paid of with great dividend. Water can be so difficult at times. Mechanic, welder, painter, machinist and water specialist. I am waiting for the day when you leap a tall building with a single bound. "SUPERMAN". If their is a way you will find out how. Thanks for showing your progress. A job well done.
A guy on twitter asked about building his own youtube channel and if he should stick to the topic or do different things. He is an engineer and a musician. My answer was "make the videos about what you find interesting" and giving you and Watch Wes Work as an example. In this video you proved my point 100%. This is a video about engineer's/maker's minds. It's a working explanation how french drain works and celebration of finding the right solution to the problem at hand: getting the water away from the building. It's not the subject that is interesting (altough it is), it's how the thinking man's mind works in problem solving that is what makes your and some other people's videos worth watching every time! The topic is the thought process and problem solving. That's the topic. Thank you for letting us into your life and your mind, you make our (I'm pretty sure I can speak for more people then just me here) days better, nicer!
Congratulations Toby , it looks like it's working as planned. I heard your comment on watching water drain . As a kid I walked home from school and it amazed me water ran and drained . We've never had French drains the concept is very interesting .This year I've seen Pete from Just a few acres farm and you build them different needs and different plans.
I like how you plan your work and then you work your plan until you have something happen that puts you back to planning. I know that you have things that frustrate you but you seem to just step back and start thinking about a solution. You have a lot of practice with problem solving (X231) and it shows with things like removing the landscape fabric from your gravel bed in that drainage system. It just sense that it would restrict water flow and you don't need that.
Did I mention that I love rain ? This year is exceptional. We've been getting rain to the point that I wish I had planted the autumn vegetables. I did something similar 25 years ago because my hillside was suffering erosion. Takk.
0:34 now that you have a surface, you should get a couple of IBCs and stack them inside to collect water. Worth having. And if you get like second hand ones from some kind of industrial dealer, they're cheap as cheap gets. At least here in Europe, i got 15 or so for a fraction of the price (of course, you take the L of them being used for chemicals, which means you can't use them fro drinking water or washing (yourself) water, but for washing a tractor, fire purposes etc, plenty good). In the first three months, i had like 6 tons of water stored from a surface area similar to yours in about similar rain conditions (if the camera's not lying too much to my ears). IMHO, storing water is always a good idea, never know when you need it in large volumes.
🤦♂️oops 🤷♂️ don’t be in such a rush ! Not a tractor in sight yet it was a s253 studio production 🤨🤣🤣🤣 All that rain! grass come in quick , looking good out there in the Red Shed field 😊 ✌️🤙
I explained in the prior episode how gutters often get damaged by sliding snow coming off of steel roofs in this climate, and downspouts suffer from ice backups in late winter-early spring when we get melting during the day but re-freezing at night, which pops downspouts open every year.
Question, on the lean to side, IF the trees and grass area you planted were higher elevation than the building, ie, water would run towards the building, would the drain work to keep water away from th building? Or would water rush over the rocks and head towards the building? And winter, ground freezes, spring melt comes, but ground still frozen, how does drain function then?
Yes, but you’d put it in a bit different in that scenario - you’d make the rock bed slope “up” slightly so the incoming water would have to climb up in elevation to get across it, giving it maximum opportunity to get caught by the rock bed and carried off before it makes it to the building. Pete at Just a Few Acres Farm channel just recently put out a video showing one of those sloping drains he put in next to his main barn 👍
Thanks for braving the elements! How does the original french drain inlet look? Does a lot of water flow during rain or does it just catch the underground seep?
Two things, how do you think the drain tile will do when the ground freezes? Will it heave above the stone?? ....One more thing, thanks for showing all the running water, now I have to pee! 8-)
If the drain is working properly, there won’t be any water in it to freeze and heave. After the ground freezes, everything is locked up for the next few months and doesn’t need to run anyway 👍
Has that type of drain been tested before? One can well imagine that if someone walk on top of the rocks the drain tube will work its way to the top and soon be laying on top of the ground. Maybe a warning sign is called for: "Do not walk on drain!"
As the red shed is near the middle of a piece of farm property, and it ishis cold storage building, I highly doubt there will be much foot traffic around the building of people who do not know what the gravel is there for.
I’ll be building a ceiling under there next summer, that was another part of this building that I chose to tackle myself to save a little bit of money. We’re late enough in the year now that nothing will be trying to nest under there, and finishing the landscaping along with building the storage loft will keep me busy for the rest of this summer 👍
I know you likely explained, but how come you didn’t just put up gutters with downspouts running into a French drain? With the rocks on side to keep a nice look.
Yep I explained it in the previous episode where I ran the first box drain underground and tee’d it into the existing French drain, but to recap it’s because of the ice buildup we get here in the late winter/early spring months. Daytime melts followed by night time freezes result in ice backups in the downspouts, which pops them open and damages them beyond repair.
Good morning from California is there any way some of your members can help with the North Star crawlers purchasing t-shirts something to help promote your Club
No concerns, with the triple bottom lining in the trenches that’ll block anything from coming up through, and there is no organic material in the rocks to propagate any growth - plus the more the water runs through it the cleaner the rocks get 👍
Tile drain socks are falling out of favor more and more due to how quickly they become dirty and clog due to their smaller surface area. The preferred method now is to create higher-flow drains when decent slope can be achieved, which makes the drain more self-cleaning, allowing it to carry any sediment and debris clear away and out the daylight end 👍
Many Thanks for the update......My.....you don't know how badly I would love to have a hammock under your lean-to for a nice little afternoon nap. The sound of the rain on the roof and the running water.........Ahhh........Sounds delightful. Grass looks great!!
We are all little boys at heart, and playing around water is one of life’s great experiences ! Well done.
look at that grass, whatever Senior had in that secret mix needs to be patented and sold, you'd make a fortune.
“Squatch Senior’s MIRACLE Potting Soil Mix” lol 👍😂
Thanks for braving the elements! The drain is working great! Sr. needs to bag and sell his compost! The grass is growing like crazy!!
Quality job as always. That rain will really settle all the stone hardstanding in well.
🙌🏼 Up High Squatch, on a job well done!
Toby, the drain is working great and so is Sr’s compost. You guys do everything to profection. That’s why I enjoy your channel sooooo much. Thanks for the update on how well the drainage system works.
Shoot a video from inside the shed when it's raining hard. I bet the sound is amazing on that tin roof while it is still empty.
Thanks for the update, Squatch
Particularly because there's only one type of weather that will test out the drainage
Your dedication to the members is commendable and I hope you didn't get too wet 👍
Thanks for the update! Seems to be working perfectly!
Incredible! I am definitely adding this idea as a must for my future shop and storage building.
The drainage also looks like just decritive rock. I like how you finished off your new garage.
My friend has decided to go without gutters on his brand new house build. He wants to use the exact same system that you have built here to remove water from around his home. I am glad to see you did this and that it works this well.
I love it when a plan comes together! Great job sir!
Looks like the drains and the grass are doing what you wanted good job
Thats an excellent setup! Thinking about doing something similar
As Hannibal Smith would say " I love it when a plan comes together!" Good to see all of your hard work payoff!
Love the A-Team reference lol 👍😎
Great success!!!
Well engineered drainage!
Thanks Toby! Looking like all your work is doing well. Can’t wait to see what comes next.
Squatch.
Nice to see your hard work and design is paying off as planned.
Thanks. Boe
Looks awesome 👌
2:24 i had no doubts about your setup. Only one word can describe it. Excellent.
I really appreciate how you approach your projects. You think it through and execute accordingly. I try to approach my projects so they do not require going back to redo something or start all over again.
Great job. Of course, we all knew that it would work. Your planning has paid of with great dividend. Water can be so difficult at times. Mechanic, welder, painter, machinist and water specialist. I am waiting for the day when you leap a tall building with a single bound. "SUPERMAN". If their is a way you will find out how. Thanks for showing your progress. A job well done.
Excellent video the drain system is working nicely. Your grass really took off growing too must be good compost material
That grass is growing like crazy! Sr’s miracle compost site did the trick there
That drain system is working well! And the rock looks really nice.
A guy on twitter asked about building his own youtube channel and if he should stick to the topic or do different things. He is an engineer and a musician.
My answer was "make the videos about what you find interesting" and giving you and Watch Wes Work as an example. In this video you proved my point 100%. This is a video about engineer's/maker's minds. It's a working explanation how french drain works and celebration of finding the right solution to the problem at hand: getting the water away from the building.
It's not the subject that is interesting (altough it is), it's how the thinking man's mind works in problem solving that is what makes your and some other people's videos worth watching every time! The topic is the thought process and problem solving. That's the topic.
Thank you for letting us into your life and your mind, you make our (I'm pretty sure I can speak for more people then just me here) days better, nicer!
I was waiting for you to kick a couple pails over and give a flood test along with the rain. That is a lot better idea than eves troves.
Always good to see positive results from hard work! Very nice and looking great!
Looks like your ground cover has come in nicely also. 👍🏻
Congratulations Toby , it looks like it's working as planned. I heard your comment on watching water drain . As a kid I walked home from school and it amazed me water ran and drained . We've never had French drains the concept is very interesting .This year I've seen Pete from Just a few acres farm and you build them different needs and different plans.
Nice job !!!
Congregation on your drainage, making water go where it needs to is like herding cats!
You can now say you are an underwater videographer 😂🧐🤩😝
That's some good draining you got there!
I like how you plan your work and then you work your plan until you have something happen that puts you back to planning. I know that you have things that frustrate you but you seem to just step back and start thinking about a solution. You have a lot of practice with problem solving (X231) and it shows with things like removing the landscape fabric from your gravel bed in that drainage system. It just sense that it would restrict water flow and you don't need that.
Excellent design perfectly executed. I was wondering about that extra layer of fabric. Thank you for the video.
Good job Squatch, your drain system is working great.
Did I mention that I love rain ?
This year is exceptional. We've been getting rain to the point that I wish I had planted the autumn vegetables.
I did something similar 25 years ago because my hillside was suffering erosion. Takk.
Seems to be working....nice job
Nice to see things working as planned.
You did an awesome job . Denis from Santa Rosa Ca
Well done
Thanks for the update! What do you plan to do to keep the critters from nesting in the ends of the "daylighted ends" of the drain tiles?
They all have grated caps that go on the ends to prevent unwanted critters or vegetation out 👍
Hey Toby. NICELY DONE!! Pretty impressive.
Your grass is growing great
looks great
You did a great job with the drain system it is working awesome mate
Great video and job 👍 i like to watch water run too almost as much as a fire.
When that flex pipe pops out of the rock in a couple of years,replace it with solid drain field schedule 35 bell end. Will stay under the rock longer.
This pipe won’t move up in the rock, if the drain is built correctly there won’t be any water in it to heave 👍
Rain? That is that wet stuff that falls from the Sky? Right? Haven't seen any for months out here in the San Francisco Bay Area.😀
Nice job
0:34 now that you have a surface, you should get a couple of IBCs and stack them inside to collect water. Worth having. And if you get like second hand ones from some kind of industrial dealer, they're cheap as cheap gets. At least here in Europe, i got 15 or so for a fraction of the price (of course, you take the L of them being used for chemicals, which means you can't use them fro drinking water or washing (yourself) water, but for washing a tractor, fire purposes etc, plenty good). In the first three months, i had like 6 tons of water stored from a surface area similar to yours in about similar rain conditions (if the camera's not lying too much to my ears). IMHO, storing water is always a good idea, never know when you need it in large volumes.
That's the way to do it alright
You should be getting more rain on Thursday! All looks great.
You could quickly dump all of those buckets into the rocks as a load test to see if the drain would handle the surge.
Without proper water management, all buildings are sooner ot later, condemned. Good job.
🤦♂️oops 🤷♂️ don’t be in such a rush ! Not a tractor in sight yet it was a s253 studio production 🤨🤣🤣🤣
All that rain! grass come in quick , looking good out there in the Red Shed field 😊 ✌️🤙
Down to the last. Pipe to put in the ground.
Great job.
Great job
Works nice!
Gutters and downspouts would've been less expensive and easier to maintain. Looks nice though.
I explained in the prior episode how gutters often get damaged by sliding snow coming off of steel roofs in this climate, and downspouts suffer from ice backups in late winter-early spring when we get melting during the day but re-freezing at night, which pops downspouts open every year.
@@squatch253 And then there's giant icicles the length of the building that are quite dangerous. You know your area though.
Very cool set up. What would the lifespan be for something like that? Do you think you’ll have issues in the winter/spring time with ice?
Question, on the lean to side, IF the trees and grass area you planted were higher elevation than the building, ie, water would run towards the building, would the drain work to keep water away from th building? Or would water rush over the rocks and head towards the building? And winter, ground freezes, spring melt comes, but ground still frozen, how does drain function then?
Yes, but you’d put it in a bit different in that scenario - you’d make the rock bed slope “up” slightly so the incoming water would have to climb up in elevation to get across it, giving it maximum opportunity to get caught by the rock bed and carried off before it makes it to the building. Pete at Just a Few Acres Farm channel just recently put out a video showing one of those sloping drains he put in next to his main barn 👍
Thanks for braving the elements! How does the original french drain inlet look? Does a lot of water flow during rain or does it just catch the underground seep?
Are you going to sort the rocks by color, size and shape?🙃
Two things, how do you think the drain tile will do when the ground freezes? Will it heave above the stone?? ....One more thing, thanks for showing all the running water, now I have to pee! 8-)
If the drain is working properly, there won’t be any water in it to freeze and heave. After the ground freezes, everything is locked up for the next few months and doesn’t need to run anyway 👍
What about the barn roof.? 0:55
Technically shouldn’t that have been a Red Shed Production rather than a S253 Studios Production?
Nice
Has that type of drain been tested before?
One can well imagine that if someone walk on top of the rocks the drain tube will work its way to the top and soon be laying on top of the ground.
Maybe a warning sign is called for: "Do not walk on drain!"
As the red shed is near the middle of a piece of farm property, and it ishis cold storage building, I highly doubt there will be much foot traffic around the building of people who do not know what the gravel is there for.
Looks like you have created a salamander paradise 6:44 6:49 6:52 7:05 7:06 .
🤗❤️👍
How are you planning on birds not building nests under the lean too ?
I’ll be building a ceiling under there next summer, that was another part of this building that I chose to tackle myself to save a little bit of money. We’re late enough in the year now that nothing will be trying to nest under there, and finishing the landscaping along with building the storage loft will keep me busy for the rest of this summer 👍
I know you likely explained, but how come you didn’t just put up gutters with downspouts running into a French drain? With the rocks on side to keep a nice look.
Yep I explained it in the previous episode where I ran the first box drain underground and tee’d it into the existing French drain, but to recap it’s because of the ice buildup we get here in the late winter/early spring months. Daytime melts followed by night time freezes result in ice backups in the downspouts, which pops them open and damages them beyond repair.
@@squatch253 oh gotcha, makes sense. I figured there was a good reason lol.
😊😊😊
Good video
Are rainwater tanks used over there?
Sometimes yes - Senior collects rainwater on the backside of the old shop for use in the garden and flower beds.
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🌧🌧🌧😀
Good morning from California is there any way some of your members can help with the North Star crawlers purchasing t-shirts something to help promote your Club
Do you have any concerns with weeds coming up in the rocks. If so, Roundup ??
No concerns, with the triple bottom lining in the trenches that’ll block anything from coming up through, and there is no organic material in the rocks to propagate any growth - plus the more the water runs through it the cleaner the rocks get 👍
You didn't put a sock around the drain tile . . . Your thoughts on drain tile socks??
Tile drain socks are falling out of favor more and more due to how quickly they become dirty and clog due to their smaller surface area. The preferred method now is to create higher-flow drains when decent slope can be achieved, which makes the drain more self-cleaning, allowing it to carry any sediment and debris clear away and out the daylight end 👍
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