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Earthworks: Brag post

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How steep is too steep for a swale?

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To Swale or Not to Swale

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Imprinting

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Built from scratch

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Finding contour for swale

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Is a "mini-excavator" good enough? What would be a fair rental price?

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Terribad erosion problem (swales needed?)

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Road Maintenance

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Swales on heavily forested land

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Water rights and earth works.

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Hugulkultur and an intermittent channel

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Seeds for Erosion Control Earthworks on Navajoland

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How to design annual beds on slope?

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Are swales always good?

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Shallow Rocky Soil Above Hardpan

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Mud woes

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Techniques for combating frosts

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Very basic swale design question

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Equipment on steep slope: that first cut for swale

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Green Living Co-op Members install earthworks in Central Phoenix, AZ

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Swales in a garden

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Swale OFF Contour

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Paying gig: Help me make a Keyline plowing plan

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Bulldozers... ponds... etc

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Gravel Screener

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Help locating my Keyline

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The Backwards Grant

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Using a Trencher/Ditch Witch to dig swales?

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Water where I don't want it!

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Too Much Volume for a Grass Waterway

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Where do you put the swale?

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To Swale or Not to Swale

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How do I build Terraces

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Swale Depth

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Looking for Recommendations: Earthwork Contractor & Planning Advice – Spokane Area

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concerns about Swales and erosion

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Spring formation and swales

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building underground: New approach

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Translating observation into practice

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New toy for me too

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Terracing/Raised bed advice needed

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Roads & swales

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Erosion Control

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Cows and Plows

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Spontaneous Mountain Spring

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Land Advice

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Methods for boring and installing a 3" pipe under a raised shared road?

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Fish Scale Terracing - transforming steep slopes to tree sites utilizing goats

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My swale Time Lapse

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Gravel driveway and weeds

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Swales are so cool !!! Pic heavy

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Holistic Management, Keyline Design, and Food Forest/Savanna

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Swales and retaining walls

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Swales to support a dense hedge?

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Swales in a vineyard

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Ditch Plow from Y&J Farm Equipment

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Pond and swale update, 2 more inches of rain

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Where has the water gone?

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Is dynamite an appropriate technology for earthworks?

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