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Project Introduction and Initial Trenching

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Fixing a Wet Lawn

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What happens here

The project begins with a general overview of the homeowner's existing water problem: a wet yard, especially during spring melts, due to clay soil causing water to sit. The team introduces the plan to install a French drain system. The initial phase involves using a Bobcat mini excavator to carefully peel back sections of sod along the marked path of the future trench. This sod is preserved for later reuse. Following the sod removal, the excavator begins digging a shallow trench along the designated path.

Goal: Prepare the area for the French drain by removing sod and digging a preliminary trench.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Mini Excavator Bobcat — Removing sod and digging the trench
  • Shovel — Assisting with sod removal and trenching

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[Music] all right we're starting a new job today what what we putting in Timmy a French drain yeah French drain system and then we're going to do a little bit of a drain box right here for Gutter and box and place for the sump pump to dump into that'll be separate line than the French drain system but they get water kind of getting stuck in here I mean it drains out eventually but it's uh um we did this project for him a while back the boulder wall up there and uh this was just all clay from what I remember so nothing really drains they were having a lot of issues before we put that in with water sitting in here so we created a sale for them and it it it kicks it out but like they're having a lot of problems like the springtime melt we

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