Drycreek
Well-Known Member

Since I can't tell one deer from another, (refer to Same Deer 2016 to 2018 thread), I thought I would just show y'all what I did in my spare time today.
First, I need to tell you that I didn't think to take before pics, my bad ! However, I have provided a visual aid where your imagination can serve to do what I did not. I have five creek crossings on my place, one of which is a concreted crossing that was there when I bought the place. This is a seasonal creek, probably running 9/10 months a year normally. The rest I built myself and all but this one are low water crossings undercut to hard ground, rip-rap rock (9"/12") up to about a foot under the stream bed, then topped out with oversize rock (3"/5"). All rock was walked in with my Caterpillar D5C dozer. It was then topped with fine iron ore gravel that is native to my place. This gives a smooth riding surface. The water runs at the original level. This particular crossing is not made like the others. For some reason I thought it would be nice to hold a little water in the creek for a hundred yards or so, mainly because I like to see wood ducks, and they did frequent the pool that formed. Trouble is, the beavers like it also ! The little creek has a helluva watershed evidently because a 3" rain will have it out of the banks, and I had trouble with my rock washing away. I took my backhoe and drug the rock back from below a half dozen times or more, then decided to fence it with a pipe fence. I used 8 5/8" oilfield casing about four layers deep (horizontally) with 4" pipe driven vertically downstream but against the casing to hold the "fence" in place. It worked pretty well until early fall of this year when we had 11" of rain in about a week.
Now, to the visual aids


I just couldn't go off and leave the new owner with a big hole that wasn't there when he first looked at the place and committed to buy it. We are forecast another flood over the next three days.

I hope it holds !
