100,000 POUNDS of pulling force to install 70,000ft of drainage tile! 

That make the tile truck look slick!

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Good call!

@@iowANFarmer yes sir👍👍

More to come!

And a TA55 Barber Green for pipe up to 24". Also a 410B John Deere backhoe with a detachable auger backfiller, scraper, grader, various trucks, trailers, support van, and other pieces of equipment. In 1980 I contracted a million ft job in Fair Oaks Indiana where Prudential Insurance Co had purchased 24,000 acres of land and put up, at that point, 60 center pivot irrigation systems. I learned at workshops that a wide trench and flat bottom causes major deflection of the pipe reducing flow capacity by up to 50%. There is a much better way! Dig your start holes on the back side of the main just like you have been doing on the front side. Cut out a section of the main. Set the plow in the backside trench and pull through on grade until you clear the main. The pipe then has the proper grade, has the necessary "V" bottom for support, and the trench is only as wide as the plow, and practically no hand "bedding" on exposed pipe. . If you try this, give a good trial of at least a dozen or so tie ins. Once you and your guy get the hang of it, it's actually easier and quicker. Good luck!

Very cool!

@@iowANFarmer I hope you try this method. It's required by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture as well as licensing for contractors and their machinery. I also installed one of the first subsurface irrigation plots at Fair Oaks.

Needs to be stout!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really improves yield.

@@iowANFarmer so, it helps dry out the soaked land. I get it now... I'm gonna watch more vids, and learn more about it.

I have, I need to try out some of the 3" ones

I think she might need some more weight.

Starting to take on custom jobs, but sill lots to do on my own.

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That be a hard one to transport around.

Just referencing a moment when I was pulling tile....lol turned into a true mess

Correct!

I don’t know much about them.

In Michigan we call them lowboy trailers. they are a flat bed trailer that is dropped down low to the ground for moving heavy equipment

I use DJI mini, but Spencer took this footage with his drone. It was a bigger drone.

Tile is installed in ground that doesn't drain that well/fast - to help promote a good ratio of Air/water/soil mixture. It also improves water quality and prevents runoff. Tile takes ground that doesn't preform like it should and turns it into high performance ground. Most people say 15-20% payback - My guess is closer to a 3 year payback - even shorter if you catch the right year - plus the increase in value of the ground.

We could have used some help sometimes!

@@iowANFarmer Had I lived near by I would have been more then glad to come out and help

We were trying that. I will get back to work on building oneX

Yes

Pre rip with the 4”?

@@iowANFarmer yes we run a 3pt soil max. The only issue we have come across is the mound of dirt can start dragging on a 3pt plow. So we push it off the trench after the pre rip. It does a couple thing. You can find the rocks and pretty much pull the plow without a tow

Looks like we might be out of working days. Did you ever send an email about the strAw?

@@iowANFarmer no haven’t had time yet

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But we don’t always use it on a tractor

Changes, some of the bottom ground is deep!

I think you could try something like that. They fill with dirt because of grade issues

Haven’t tried fratco couplers - I need to try out some of their pipe. What do you think of that! 6 mil feet a year is a lot. I’d like to get to 500000

@iowANFarmer we love the Fratco pipe, we only get it 8" and bigger because we get 4-6 from a local company but we get what they call flexcore so it's smooth inside like dual wall but flexes enough to run through a plow but it is super tough pipe

Sure do!

Won’t even come close to them. Always call 811

Realistically, the pull was very smooth and slow - the plow was able to keep grade. All the LinkBelt did was attached to the tractor.