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yeah sure...
i have worked ranches and farms all over the usa so i know a little about allot of farm related stuff...
i was almost killed inside a stand up culvert in fact
when the total ASS up the road built a stupid earthen damn
that felt apart sending a tsunami's worth of water down to our
place completely washing out our tar driveway
and i got jammed up in there with debris in minutes
trying to unclog it
and almost drowned... man did i want to kill that jerk.
anyways i assume your roof run off is eroding your yard
and now you want to channel it somewhere to minimize the damage ...
technically a french drain is this huge round hole in the ground full of
big ole rocks and its aproximately 6 feet deep
sometimes the newer ones are concrete but thats where the term originated..
generally you have topsoil thats loam and then below that its called decomposed granite or DG
DG drains almost as good as sand....so your french drain needs to empty into dg and not into loam or you'll end up with a mudfest.
the grass will grow three feet tall there and look awful
so consider digging the hole....you got a grub hoe?
you use a grub hoe and pick to loosen, take a break then the other guy shovels or vice versa
(if alone)
or you rest and pick up the other tool again....
after the hole is dug throw in the biggest stuff then smaller and
smaller rock untill you end up with a large gravel top layer.
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