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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 8:29:58 GMT -5
Yesterday, I had to take one of my hunting days off to fix water line break in the woods. Good news it's fixed, but my best hunting spot is turn up. The leak was 15 yards from the stand. Dug up a channel 2 ft wide and 15 yards long paralleling the stand. Need to clear a few small trees to stop this from happening again.  |
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Post by genesis273 on Oct 4, 2018 9:21:38 GMT -5
Glad you fixed it at least
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Post by Huntnfreak on Oct 4, 2018 14:39:55 GMT -5
That type of work is my everyday life..
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 4, 2018 15:44:34 GMT -5
Deer like the smell of freshly dug earth. Unless there's some other reason, I wouldn't completely give up on that stand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 17:23:53 GMT -5
I just checked the area to make sure it's drying and yes correct, deer prints in the soft clay/mud. Push one just past the area. I planted grass seed yesterday. Should be just in time for November rut. Next year I might clear more and make a micro food plot.
Added on: After this post I went out and cut down a 1ft plus Asian honeysuckle and 3-4" grape vines that blocked my stand the the water line area. Now it's open for a future kill spot.
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Post by steiny on Oct 5, 2018 12:37:13 GMT -5
Reseed the disturbed area with some forage oats or winter wheat seed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 14:04:18 GMT -5
Reseed the disturbed area with some forage oats or winter wheat seed. Good idea. On order. Delivery on Sunday. Hopefully, enough time to germinate and grow. Maybe 2 or 3 weeks until good freeze. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 14:12:09 GMT -5
Bad news, went to the dug up area to rack it for tomorrow planting and I see water. It's right at the hose fitting area. They will be back Monday morning. Oh well
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Post by bill9068 on Oct 6, 2018 15:21:32 GMT -5
Eventually they will get it fixed. I had a similar situation years ago next to my hottest stand, it didn't matter to the deer as I saw tracks on top of tracks on the disturbed dirt. We had timbered just before season a small quarter acre spot for logs for a pole barn. Then dug most of the stumps with a backhoe and seeded with clover.
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Post by greghopper on Oct 6, 2018 15:41:44 GMT -5
I leave it uncovered for a few days this time to be sure it's fixed!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 18:14:29 GMT -5
We waited about 30 minutes before covering up. Looked good. The pressure is 190 psi that doesn't help.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 6, 2018 18:41:28 GMT -5
Any time we've done dirt work there is always a lot deer tracks on it. They have to check it out for some reason.
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Post by Huntnfreak on Oct 6, 2018 19:54:28 GMT -5
Bad news, went to the dug up area to rack it for tomorrow planting and I see water. It's right at the hose fitting area. They will be back Monday morning. Oh well If it's CTS (copper tube size) poly pipe..use inserts with compression fittings instead of barbed fittings and hose clamps. |
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Post by featherduster on Oct 7, 2018 8:06:32 GMT -5
I leave it uncovered for a few days this time to be sure it's fixed!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 9:12:30 GMT -5
Bad news, went to the dug up area to rack it for tomorrow planting and I see water. It's right at the hose fitting area. They will be back Monday morning. Oh well If it's CTS (copper tube size) poly pipe..use inserts with compression fittings instead of barbed fittings and hose clamps. It's 1" black rubber tubing. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 10:55:20 GMT -5
They have the new 20 yard line dug up and it's not leaking (dry). It's gushing out of the ground and they don't know where. It's still right at the 1st coupling. It's puzzling where this water is coming from. Need to get the big 2 ft bucket excavator and follow upstream to source (leak).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 12:36:24 GMT -5
They checked my meter and line and it's not leaking. Somewhere or somehow water is gushing out. The next closest lines are 25 yards away and on the other side of the trench that the water is coming from. Makes no sense. Water bill has been in-line and water pressure is typical. My only guess now is my new mother nature high volume spring. It would fill a large in-ground pool less than 12 hrs. It filled the large dug out hole overnight. Time to build a pond.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 7:28:19 GMT -5
There are 6 lines that come up from the bottom road about 2 feet apart. Mine is on the right and splits off about 1/3 way up (100 yards) the other 5 goes up another 200 yards and the one on the left splits off to the my neighbor. The remaining 4 lines run all the way to the top of the ridge and under the road. Two splits left and two right. All lines run just off my property up the hill. I talked to 4 of the 5 and no pressure loss or high water bill. One was not home. If that one is leaking the water is running down and across the hill about 18 yards into my property and popping out of the ground. The water come out about 5 feet from my line. All that digging and work and it's not my line. They are back at it today and going to dig and find the neighbors leak. Note: Our private drive is 7 lots (5 5 acres, 3 acre, and 2 acres). The 2 acre line runs separately for the gang of 6 lines. I'm on the 3 acre lot. This is my little 30 acre hunting hole.
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Post by greghopper on Oct 9, 2018 8:23:38 GMT -5
So when it was dug up the first time was it actually leaking from line or did they hit the line digging?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 12:48:53 GMT -5
Water Works was there this morning and says I have a very slow leak and he thinks it's tied into a spring. Has chlorine and some metals from a spring. Water leak is stronger than what the meter very slow spin would indicate. You have to watch the meter over time to see that it turned some. So we have to follow the leak up the hill and then to the water line. What a pain.
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