A farm box culvert installation or pipe culvert is an economical and effective way of passing a running watercourse or passageway under a physical obstacle such as a public road, railway, hill or other obstacle. Some culverts are created in existing watercourses to allow passage over it.
A typical example of a farm culvert would be a section of a farm ditch that is piped and filled over to allow passage for farm machinery from one field to the next without having to fold up or use a public road. Doody Plant will help you prepare and install your cattle crossing culvert or other farm culverts economically and on time. Demand for precast concrete box culverts on farms is growing due to the wide range of applications including conveyance of fluids such as stormwater, sewage or waste water, short span bridges, culverting of waterways, balancing of tanks for offline storage, escape tunnels, service tunnels, animal under-crossings, cattle underpasses, drainage schemes, farm machinery passage ways and more.
Doody Farm Culvert Installation
Once you have chosen the place for your farm culvert construction, Doody Plant will clean out the watercourse or ditch with an excavator to a suitable depth and shape for the concrete culvert pipe. This will allow the culvert cope with maximum winter floods without causing backups or flooding issues upstream. During construction, we may divert the watercourse by way of a temporary ditch so that work can be carried out in dry conditions and allow the use of concrete if necessary.
Next, we will need to create a suitable foundation for the culvert installation. Once this is completed, we will then lay the pipe central to the watercourse, in true line with it and at roughly the same fall as the watercourse itself.
Once we are happy with the height, position and line of the culvert installation, we will then stabilise the pipe with timber or metal props and backfill around it with suitably selected material or concrete. We will construct a headwall at either end of the pipe either by shuttering and pouring concrete, building concrete blocks or brickwork or using traditional methods such as ballast and cement filled hessian sacks stacked around the pipe.
Once we have completed the backfill, covered up and allowed enough time for any cement materials to cure, the new culvert is ready for water to flow through and farm equipment to pass over the top.
For a quote on installing farm culverts, call Aidan at 087-258 5243 or send us your requirements in the request a quote form