Plastic or metal Culvert | Deer Hunter Forum

I only have experience with twelve and fifteen inch diameter plastic. They hold the filled logging trucks no problem with the amount of gravel that we put over them. It shows how to install on the internet including how much gravel to have around it and fill above it. It takes the correct amounts to give it strength. The best info would come from your town road supervisor. He or she will know what size you need and whether plastic of the recommended size will work for you in your situation, ie; just because there was a 3 to 4 ft. "pipe" there doesn't mean one that large was needed or vice versa that it was even large enough. The road supervisors generally know the drainages in their town so they are a great resource.

Now on pricing Our road supervisor provided his pipe source and the price the town was paying. After checking many sources including that one, all were within twenty-five dollars of each other. Then I checked a source, one county away and the difference in price was over $100 and cheaper than even the price the town was buying them at which was supposedly at a special high volume deal. Four twenty ft. lengths were needed so I bought one and showed the road super and he said it was definitely the exact same quality as he was getting so I then went back and bought the rest of what I needed so it saved me a few hundred dollars overall. So it can pay to check around for pricing.

Use Aluminized Steel. Not the common galvanized stuff. In live streams it'll last about 15 years. Aluminized will last longer than you will. Plastic that size will egg out on you over time.

I only have experience with twelve and fifteen inch diameter plastic. They hold the filled logging trucks no problem with the amount of gravel that we put over them. It shows how to install on the internet including how much gravel to have around it and fill above it. It takes the correct amounts to give it strength. The best info would come from your town road supervisor. He or she will know what size you need and whether plastic of the recommended size will work for you in your situation, ie; just because there was a 3 to 4 ft. "pipe" there doesn't mean one that large was needed or vice versa that it was even large enough. The road supervisors generally know the drainages in their town so they are a great resource.

Now on pricing Our road supervisor provided his pipe source and the price the town was paying. After checking many sources including that one, all were within twenty-five dollars of each other. Then I checked a source, one county away and the difference in price was over $100 and cheaper than even the price the town was buying them at which was supposedly at a special high volume deal. Four twenty ft. lengths were needed so I bought one and showed the road super and he said it was definitely the exact same quality as he was getting so I then went back and bought the rest of what I needed so it saved me a few hundred dollars overall. So it can pay to check around for pricing.

I am checking on the Aluminized, LLC. Thanks
Chainsaw I will probably go smaller but same diameter of pipe which goes under the main highway. And yes as with the current one, 1-2 ft of dirt and stone arched over the culvert is key to handling heavy loads. Friend is probably going to get me plastic leftover pipe from his work. And he's going to give me a hand along with 2 others in this project. Def be waiting for better weather. Thanks.

I am checking on the Aluminized, LLC. Thanks
Chainsaw I will probably go smaller but same diameter of pipe which goes under the main highway. And yes as with the current one, 1-2 ft of dirt and stone arched over the culvert is key to handling heavy loads. Friend is probably going to get me plastic leftover pipe from his work. And he's going to give me a hand along with 2 others in this project. Def be waiting for better weather. Thanks.

Dogghr...you will have issues or cause issues for the highway department going smaller diameter pipe. Even though the Highway Department can't make you put the same size pipe as the highway size, it would be in traveling public safety to do this. Smaller equals water backing up onto the R/W. ADS Plastic pipe is your best bet, if your going plastic. It can handle more weight without as little as one foot fill on top.