Show keeping ditches open the best method of cleaning weeds grass and loose dirt out of an open drainage ditch will depend very much on the size and shape of the ditch and how badly it is filled up for a narrow ditch dragging along an old threshing cylinder or a section of a disc fastened with a long log chain to a pole pulled with a team at each end will give good results an old corn planter or binder bull wheel with the edge of the rim filed or ground sharp can be pulled along in the same way where the ditch bottom is wider and rounder doing this once or twice a season should keep the ditch in good shape |