Excavate the Deep Trench

I always get stuck in tiny spots man so this French drain job is going to be a bit different than what I would air quote a standard French drain now a standard French drain is really designed to collect your surface water move it along underground and daylight it out to wherever you can get it to go well we're going to be doing is what I call a modified or hybrid French drain and what we're trying to do with this system is capture the ground water because the groundwater table is so high in this area it's automatically flooding the house if we can dry and capture that water up underground before it has a chance to raise we're gonna hopefully be able to keep these guys's backyard drier and their basement from flooding out so this everything that we're going to be doing today is a standard French drain except deeper at the exit point in the field we get back to the right elevation but we'll show you what we mean in a