The Money Pit

fried1765 · Jan 3, 2020

JHurt said:
No such regulation here! People still use lagoons, and even mine just drains into the pasture.

Probably not the best idea, from a health aspect.

hawkeye08 · Jan 3, 2020

We had a cinder block 'vault' with boards covering it at the farmhouse where I grew up. It went from there across driveway to open sewer on the other side.. Between the tree roots and whatnot, it needed work every few years... Pa finally put the outlet into drain pipe buried at least so the smell was gone, but it should have had the tank and whole system replaced.

Jstpssng · Jan 3, 2020

My grandfather's house just exited into a ditch, which eventually ran into a pond, then the river. Supposedly it had a tank in the system, but I remember seeing toilet paper caught on the end of the outlet.
He told of putting trout in the brook about 1/2 mile downstream; so my friend and I tried it and sure enough, we caught a couple there. I couldn't bring myself to eat them though.
When my parents moved in the first thing they did was put in a proper septic.

Molalla1 · Jan 3, 2020

fried1765 said:
Probably not the best idea, from a health aspect.

Grass is probably bright green in the area . . .

JHurt · Apr 9, 2020

Richard brought his backhoe over and dug the hole for the septic tank today. Supposed to be here around 10:00 tomorrow morning. Got a couple of pipes spanning the hole for the night. Going to run a little over 400ft if pipe to get it back behind the pond. Last couple of years the run off has played **** on our pond.

JHurt · Apr 10, 2020

Tank installed, and 460 ft of pipe laid today! Still need to get all the dirt filled back in, but we were at least productive today. And I’m worn out! If my family had to depend on me to run a shovel for a living, we’d all be a lot skinnier! It’s been a great project, and after today I feel like we did it right! I like knowing what is going on from the house out now too! So many questions about what was happening before all of this.

Diggin It · Apr 11, 2020

That 'T" or whatever it is in the third picture looks like a good place for clogs.

aczlan · Apr 11, 2020

Diggin It said:
That 'T" or whatever it is in the third picture looks like a good place for clogs.

I agree, IMO it would be better to dig that up to the other side of the fence and reset it up to use a sweep 45 elbow then a matching sweep 45 tee (with 2 clean out tees, one for each line).

Aaron Z

JHurt · Apr 11, 2020

Diggin It said:
That 'T" or whatever it is in the third picture looks like a good place for clogs.

The straight part of the T is the main sewer line and the part that is elbowed and ran to the T is just the kitchen sink drain so I don’t think it will be an issue. I have no idea why the kitchen sink has it’s own pipe, but it does. We found all kinds of interesting things. That’s what you get when you work on a 100 year old house that has been added on to multiple times, and has had multiple people cobble something together.