Farm Drainage Tile Installation to Boost Profits

[@janericchannel4513]

Any follow up videos from the drainage project now years out?

[@ander745]

God job, from Brazil , Does the soil not clog the holes?

[@Abe8816]

no, what we do for residential drainage is we dig our trench and we put rough pebbles (to block bigger particulates) then the corrugated pipes with a special mesh cloth (finer particulates)on the pipe, think of the mesh like a pillow case for the pipe.

[@StormWaterDrainageSolutions]

Excellent video, thank you for making this!

[@LIFELOVER715]

Beautiful farm. Good living.

[@kuzadupa185]

Isnt it installed a bit shallow?

[@Toddster81]

Nice video, I watched somebody tile a huge corn field here in ohio. They had the same equipment and took them quite awhile to complete. I can see how it would be beneficial.

[@DaveLeader]

Thank you for this video. It was interesting and very informative.

[@ardentenquirer8573]

Can you give us more information about the farm?

[@baileylineroad]

Good Morning and thanks for asking. We have 40 acres of land that we use to pasture beef cattle in a custom grazing situation. We get paid on the cattle weight gain so it's in our interest to make the most of the situation. We're in a 4b climate zone, and our frost free period is from early May to mid-October. The cattle are off the pasture now and we had a gain of almost 11,000 pounds from 56 head, even with the disruption of tile installation. I hope this helps. Drop by my website baileylineroad.com for a visit sometime. You'll find lots of stuff there, including tool giveaways, articles and the chance to ask me questions.

[@WheretheJones]

I see these videos about field drainage and in the comment sections people ask why gravel and/or some fabric not used with the drain tile and it never gets answered. So isn't it a high possibility for the holes in the tile to be clogged if your don't use them?

[@Ellison89Brett]

In most cases it’s not necessary. It mainly depends on soil type, if the soil is fine enough to fit through the slots or not. Fabric and stone adds a lot of cost so there’s no sense to use it if it’s not necessary. The holes won’t clog with most soil types.

[@jaredlaflamme354]

Imagin a farmer from early 1800s seeing this

[@PH82024]

Do you put rocks on top of the tile?

[@triciahill216]

Why isn’t geotectile fabric and/or stone used with ag tile drainage?

[@TheMichiganShow]

That’s my question too

[@Ellison89Brett]

In most cases it’s not necessary. It mainly depends on soil type, if the soil is fine enough to fit through the slots or not. Fabric and stone adds a lot of cost so there’s no sense to use it if it’s not necessary.

[@northpaw80]

The perforations are on the bottom, therefore, there is less likely of soil being compacted from above into the holes and closing them.

[@jamibarnett9266]

Can I get the information on cost? Also the name and contact of this field tile company? Thank you for the video!

[@EllieMaxwellMusic]

Hello Jami! Cost is about $1500 per acre and the company I chose was agdrain.ca. The thing is, unless you live in my part of Ontario, Canada, you'll need to find another drainage contractor. They don't generally travel that far because of the cost of moving equipment. Where abouts is you farm? Bye for now and thanks for watching! Steve

[@jamibarnett9266]

@@EllieMaxwellMusic I am in Washington state, US. Price is probably a lot more here. Yes I will look around and get cost quotes. Thank you so much. I did subscribe to your channel. 👍🏻😊

[@25classical]

@@EllieMaxwellMusic I think it is well worth it, but also certainly on the long run. Thank you Steve for the great videos. JPB

[@ardentenquirer8573]

You just do cattle? What happen in the winter?

[@kuzadupa185]

I came and hoped it was a video showing installing actual tile work like the 1970d

[@ranchhandrandy3213]

Ever a problem with dirt/mud seeping into the pipes over time and clogging them?

[@TheMichiganShow]

Why do they have to add stone for around the home but not in a farm field?

[@Ellison89Brett]

In most cases it’s not necessary. It mainly depends on soil type, if the soil is fine enough to fit through the slots or not. Fabric and stone adds a lot of cost so there’s no sense to use it if it’s not necessary.

[@TheMichiganShow]

@@Ellison89Brett thank you

[@travisk5589]

May the fourth be with you.

[@BasixStructures]

Did your great great grand parents get a Mule with those 40 acres?

[@KirkbyKev]

A much cheaper and more effective alternative is adaptive grazing, multi species cover crops and regenerative agriculture. No need for tile drains, improve the soil, save money.

[@baileylineroad]

Well, interesting comment. In my experience of 35 years grazing cattle, I've never seen any alternative that works when soil remains waterlogged, slow to warm up in spring because of standing water on the soil, and valuable species being frozen out each winter because the ice kills them. In fact, adaptive grazing and all that stuff works so much better when soil is free from water saturation. Excess water is always the enemy of a productive agriculture. That's why proactive farmers are so big on tile draining. This is especially true with the organic/regnerative/biodynamic farmers I know.

[@KirkbyKev]

@@baileylineroad Great reply and good to see from experience the use of tile drains. I admit to being focused on horticulture more than grazing, but I do wonder if it would be better to spend the large capital cost of installing tile drains on financing lower yield transition years of regenerative and adaptive grazing which will build greater soil water carrying capacity. Tile drains seem more of a short term cure until they silt up and need to be done again, while regenerative ag will continue to build the soil. I suppose,like all things, it depends on the ranch, the soils and the environment. At least the discussion is being made!

[@silverfox2852]

That must cost a pretty penny

[@danlah1303]

Interesting to me that this works without surrounding pipe with aggregate (sometimes wrapped in fabric) like most household contractors do for subsurface drainage.

[@Ellison89Brett]

In most cases it’s not necessary. It mainly depends on soil type, if the soil is fine enough to fit through the slots or not. Fabric and stone adds a lot of cost so there’s no sense to use it if it’s not necessary.

[@Evoluzione2]

I wonder how the heck you managed to call this tiles? It's pipe.

[@WheretheJones]

It is called drain tile. Term comes from the clay pipes used to drain fields in the same way long ago. Clay has been used as a tile for centuries.

[@Evoluzione2]

I know what they used to use, it's still a pipe and not a tile. In the rest of the World a tile is a tile, made from clay. Would you smoke a tile? 🙂

[@WheretheJones]

@@Evoluzione2 Nope. Drain Tile has been used to describe the corrugated black pipe since the 70's and the clay pipe way longer than that. Every single basement contractor in America uses the word Drain Tile. It is so common it isn't even funny. I don't smoke.

[@Evoluzione2]

So just another stupid Americanism then.

[@patrickmitsch9538]

It is called drainage tile because tile used to be made of a "Terra cotta" type of material delivered and layed in small 1' to 2' sections called drainage tiles from the early 1900's until the early 1980's in the USA.

[@staloch66]

So shallow. Definitely going to get crushed! Should be atleast 2.5ft deep at all times

[@mv5203]

Dude doesn't stop talking about nothing for the first 5 and a half minutes. Skip