Installing Field Drainage Tile -

[@MrObvious333]

I'm a retired drainage contractor with over 40 years of experience. You are on point with most of description and practices but I must take exception to the method used to connect laterals to the main lines. It's been shown that a wide trench with a flat bottom can result in deflection of 50% to complete collapse thereby significantly reducing capacity at this critical point. I learned at workshops what method is used in Ontario where the installation machines, operators, and crew are licensed by the Ministry of Agriculture. With a bit of practice and experimentation this method is easier and by far better. Dig your set-in trench as usual bur on the opposite side of the main. Cut out a section of pipe, or remove the clay tiles, leaving 4 or so inches of pipe on each side. Back the machine into place and lower the plow sow that the forward tip is on grade at or just behind the main. Pull through on grade stopping with chute clears the main. You will then have a narrow trench and v bottom support when you make the connection. "Bedding" with dirt is minimal and you have a strong connection that will not deflect. Give this a try on 4 or more connections and I know you will use this method in the future. Good luck!

[@slump7071]

I was born in Holland, so I completely understand the need for tiling. The company I work for in Canada uses the plow to put windfarm cable in the ground, at 1.2 meter depth. Sometimes we need a large doser to help drag the plow through the ground, got some concrete like ground in the prairie provinces.

[@moveonmotortrainingenj-p1384]

You start this episode sounding like you think you are going to "bore" us because it looks like it will be yet another spraying video and then comes this very interesting explanation about tiling. Over and over again you manage to make interesting content and educating (for the noobs) and inform us on the what`s and why`s in a comprehensible way . I have a thing with ag-YT-channels but yours, Harry`s (Harry`s farm, from the UK) and Pete`s (just a few acres farm) are the ones i find the most educational and down to earth. You have a good thing going here, Nathan. The most wonderful thing of all is perhaps that your vlog will once be a diary for your kids on how the old folks ((grand)parents) managed back in the day. Giving us the opportunity to join the ride is awesome and ever since I stumbled upon your channel, 2 years ago, I feel privileged to have that opportunity. Thanks man.

[@trwaintime]

Tile farming....get the biggest single harrower you can find....spool some tile into the furrow....plant that "crop"...almost assured the crop will never reach for the sun...never needs fertilizer or insecticide...most any amount of rain'll do....never worry about the harvest....what harvest...the price for the crop will always be recouped before the first clump of soil is turned....the field equipment doesn't need updating every few months and prolly will last most of a decade or longer.....my kind of farmin'...were I still from a farm family..... Thanks Nathan....enjoyed the video...enjoy those appliances!

[@HurstatElnup]

good background knowledge on tiling

[@1lilfarm]

My Dad never got to see this type of tiling being done. He installed tile (terracotta) on our farm in the early 1940s. He dug the trenches by had and installed cypress(maybe, can't remember what he told me) boards in the bottom and then laid the 4 or 6" tile on the boards. Of course we only had 120 acres and living in South Jersey our soil drains fairly well in most areas so, he only installed tile from the low areas to the ditch. Very cool video on how it's done now. 👍👍👍

[@Stevie714]

Shout out to south Jersey. Grew up in Salem County living in NC now.

[@1lilfarm]

@@Stevie714 Cool! I live in Pedricktown. Born and raised here.

[@rogerembry4777]

You’re dad is awesome

[@s.pursell8901]

Where I'm from on the far east coast. The drain going around the house is called French Drains. And no its not standard, I installed mine about 15 years ago. Completely stopped all the water getting in my basement. Even if my gutters are over flowing.

[@kb80909kbbbbb]

In eastern Nebraska we're using tile lines but it's black. We run are tile lines threw water ways, build terraces up, and connect to old terrances. Plus you again more farm ground to farm. Good job explaining tile lines.

[@DG-ne8iq]

Hello,I agree with your explanations (20-40% more yield) In France we drained a lot in the years 1970-1985, there were 30 to 40% state subsidies to do so. A tenant farmer with an 18 year lease could do it. Since 2000 : zero subsidy = net stop of draining! Our drains are 3" diameter and connected with an inverted pipe elbow on a clip sleeve and the line is 5" or more depending on the flow rate drained. Network in fishbone space and depth as you. What changes (you did not say it) is also the breathing of the soil (useful auxiliary fauna and especially the metals (iron, copper, manganese which become assimilable oxides for the plants and not hydroxides. This completely changes the retro-oxidations. Daniel retread - cerealer. Daniel Gallois. France

[@marksmith9142]

It was a very good explanation.

[@lstan444]

It is your JOB, it's part of farming.

[@wilkefarms6784]

Your father seems to be getting more comfortable around the camera, maybe we need a daily dad update lol

[@bfd1565]

Good morning

[@alexmikhael5061]

good morning!! :)

[@genechronister7085]

Watched it in iowa! Amazing work.

[@jerryreisz4996]

Weeping willows are the worst for plugging up drain lines

[@milesboehmer9969]

I have watched your videos since number one , enjoy all of it ,grew up in small farming environment all the way thru high school ,then straight to Ft Bennington . Learned a lot from you guys !

[@rogerembry4777]

I’ve never heard of drain towel till I started watching farmers on KZbin, not something farmers do in Tennessee

[@joeroy02]

Over and over. !!!

[@jakiefunderburg725]

Around when do you typically stop spraying?

[@hfff1]

Make sure to include Mattea in your livestream. You know it will increase your viewership. 😅😉😅

[@volvojohn9036]

Since you do irrigate, can (or do) you hold water in the tile system for use later in the summer? Can you pump water back into the tiling system? It all brings to mind (with different tiling system) of a soccer stadium in the Netherlands that had piping in the field, they irrigated and fertilized from below, melted snow from below, and drained excess water from the field. Do you see an application like this in the future?

[@BorderViewFarms]

No we can't irrigate by pumping water up the tile. The entire system would have to be pretty flat for that to work. Our ground has way to much slope for that to work. For example in a field we tiled a few years ago there was almost 20 feet of fall from one end of the main to the other.

[@MrObvious333]

I installed one of the first "irridrain" systems for Prudential Insurance on their 26000 acre Fair Oaks farms in 1980 in conjuction with ADS enginers. Fairly level topography is best

[@MrObvious333]

In addition, and impermeable soil barrier at a reasonable depth, an adequate supply of water and closer spacing laterals is usually closer depending on soil permeability and capillary rise.

[@terrellfarms1]

What are your thoughts on tile with surface inlets that are in low areas. I understand the principle of tile. We have a little on our farm here in Georgia. The tile with inlets to me goes against the benefits of the soil filtering. It just pulls the water straight in off the surface. We have a neighbor that had a field "tiled" but basically it is a single 8" tile line with an open surface inlet to quickly drain an area that ponds in wet times. He found a loophole so to speak.

[@BorderViewFarms]

We do have a few places with surface inlets, mostly along edges of field or in area where water flows. Getting the water in the tile and not rolling across the soil surface helps reduce erosion. You are eight though that you lose the filter effect.

[@georgedavidson7986]

I used. 3/4 inch drainage stone Dug down to tile put two buckets of drainage stone in and then covered Works good no standing water

[@andrewpeterson5977]

So the boys I help farm have a very wet field by my house that supposedly has tile in it. But the problem is is it gets so compacted. We chisel plow it after every crop and we’re talking about getting someone in with a subsoiler someday. I have never seen a tile outlet or no if it is truly tiled. I can tell you that every time it rains water pools in spots and then it doesn’t dry out very fast at all. I was wondering if we would be able to subsoil it still. We don’t want to rip tile out if there is for sure tile in the field. I don’t think the guys really know if it is tiled or not either. How deep is tile normally buried because if we don’t go super deep we should be able to subsoil it correct?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Yeah its hard to say but it shouldn't be shallower than 20". Sometimes satellite images taken at just the right time will show where tile lines are. If Noone is sure where or if If there is any there's a decent chance any tile that is there is no good anymore anyway. Could be plugged or collapsed.

[@stryke3farming370]

What does it cost to do tiling? We dont do anything like that in alberta

[@steveguenthner6697]

Are you having trouble this season with spider mites in your beans?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Spidermites are usually only a problem when it is very dry and with all the rain we have had this year its not an issue.

[@steveguenthner6697]

@@BorderViewFarms Thanks, We are in Southern MN and very dry so we are getting quite an infestion.

[@carlosdelrio5744]

does anyone in Texas does this?

[@martinlambourne8563]

Hi, how was the clay tile put in?

[@lt1nut]

The most common way her in S.E WI was digging trenches with a backhoe. A lot of work, a lot of time, in a field that became, at best, a big PITA to farm that season. Before there were backhoes there were more kids and more families with them....

[@elhanson5426]

The clay tile were originally laid in hand dug trenches. My grandfather laid 2.5" tile in the 1930s, later after WWII, crawler trenchers were built taking away most of the hand work to tiling. At that time clay tiles were about 4" diameter 1' long and and were placed by hand in a grove dug in the trench. The first "big" improvement I remember in the1960s was a simple rack on the back end of the trencher that allowed the farmer to place individual tiles on the rack and to allow gravity to feed and place the tiles in the trench. Later in the 1970s clay tiles were replaced by the plastic tile, then in the 1980s(?) 1990s increases in engine horsepower allowed greater use of tile plows in place of trenchers speeding up the process.

[@dphillips705]

is that randy the master pipe layer or someone else?

[@BorderViewFarms]

No Randy is a long ways away from here.

[@elhanson5426]

@@BorderViewFarms Isn't Randy up in Minnesota near the Millennial Farmer?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Yes

[@stanbrow]

I noticed the tile plow has tracks like I grew up with, yet it seems all newish tracked vehicles seem to have a different, sort of triangular configuration of their tracks. Can someone please explain why this has changed, please?

[@BorderViewFarms]

Steel tracks vs rubber. Most large construction equipment has steel tracks, some like this plow has tall lugs to dig into the soil for better traction. Ag equipment, tractors grain carts, etc. Have rubber tracks with tread the more closely resembles tire tread. Rubber tracks ride better, are quieter, are lighter, can go faster, and most importantly can go on the road. Steel tracks have to be trailered from job to job.

[@stanbrow]

@@BorderViewFarms thanks for the education. Rubber tracks must have become available fairly recently. I suppose the triangular arrangement for them is to “tension” them, as even with Kevlar belts in them, they probably have a certain amount of strechiness. Emjoy your videos a lot. My wife and I spent a year or so living and workin in SE Michigan a while back.

[@kevosu]

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