I have a fairly heavy tractor over 4000 pounds without attachments.
Attachments I possess: Tuffline heavy single Ripper, Howard 60" select-a-tilth, two bottom 16" plow, FEL, heavy 6 tine cultivator, Worksaver snow pusher w/ rubber edges, HLA grapple.
I have springs and low spots where the springs make the most trouble. This is in the 3-acre lawn part of the property, there are more springs in my other 3 acres of woods and swamp out back, but the state EPA won't let me touch them. YAY AMERICAN FREEDOM~!!!
The swamping is so bad that I often have to drag my lawnmower out of the muck, then abandon that part of the yard till drier times.
My land slopes downhill away from the house into the back and down into the woods. So there's that. I am at 700 Feet above sealevel
Mind you I've tried ripping. It doesn't seem to help.
I have dirt, lots and lots of dirt. The town was doing sidewalks and I told the contractor that I'd take his dirt. He was happy.
The soil down a foot or so has lots of clay it tends to clog drainage. Twice I've put a dump truck of rock and perf pipe in the same run and didn't know enough to use a sock and both times the clay blocked it up. I dug that trench by hand. Heavy forged bar, pickaxe, and shovel. That clay is tough
But things got worse.
More springs erupted with climate change. Last some odd years, we have been getting a different weather pattern than before in living memory. It rains and rains and rains in the spring then we get what metrologists are calling Rain Bombs too regularly for the land to dry up. It sort of does dry up in the high summer but never quite
This is where I run into a decision.
Do I dig and install drainage pipe gravel and sock it?
Or should I try using all that dirt to raise the land where I have swamping taking place?
If I dig I'll use the tiller and ripper and FEL to get a nice deep trench.
Or I can just build a screen sifting my free dirt and carry it over to the low spots?
Have you dealt with this? Know anyone who has?