800HP Installing Drainage Tile! 

I've been watching this farm grow for the two years you've had it and I've got to say grant, i'm impressed. You have inspired me and the farm I live on now probably won't be here in 8 years with my grandma owning it and her being about 73-76. I really hope that I'll be able to buy it someday and have my own farm.

What see much of a difference this year. Takes about 2-3 years for the water to find path to tile.

If it goes through really wet areas it will make a difference the first year then get better after that

The first 5 years is the hardest

Is it ever going to be released

He said it will be a little bit

Ive been waiting for someone to make his farm as a mod for farm sim hopefully he makes his farm a map on the game

@@onlygaming69 its not going to be cause he has john deere equipment and the game doesn't have john deere equipment

@@coltshipman65he means in farm sim

I always thought the same thing. He's always apologizing for everything

Some times if he won't do that you won't know how to fix something that he then explains

No, wheels would not do better. Tracks are superior to wheels when it comes to tiling. Don't give advice when you don't understand tiling.

The slits in the tile are thin enough little dirt should enter. That little bit gets washed out. Gophers are a bigger problem in my area. They dig down, find the tile. Use the ready made tunnel but pack it with dirt. You have to put a new tile next to it. Every farmer that puts in tile. Wishes they put it in decades ago. But it’s not cheap.

Can I ask why? I am on my 3rd diesel pickup. Smoke (except at startup in cold weather) is a sign your truck is not set up right. You realize people have ZERO trouble believing diesels are bad for the environment when they see the messy, smelly idiot rolling coal. My trucks WORK. Pulling equipment over a hundred miles.

Let’s say over a decade ago it was $2 per foot. Plus extra charge for each connection, extra for each outlet. That was spring project planned, GPS mapped in fall with a side by side. Never needed to hook onto tile tractor. But I wish I had done 3x the amount of tile. I have not gotten stuck in the decade plus since then in those areas. Nor had to drive around, skip. Except the field tiled 30+ years ago the tile is damaged by gophers. (True the outlet did not allow for decent slope to rinse out dirt. It dried soil, gophers got in, it got wet, they moved on. Now I spend time feeding the gophers…

Its called tiling because the pipe that goes in the ground is called drainage tile. It comes from what drainage tile was before the plastic pipe. Before plastic pipe actual clay tile was used.

No, Buch lives in Nebraska

It’s messy following the trail, most trenchers dump dirt one side. IF the trencher can get to exact depth, GPS controlled. That’s fine. But normally that tractor/tile machine can lay that tile at steady rate across the field. At a fast walking speed. But conditions were slick. Which raises cost. I have never priced cost to hire a +8” trencher, set up with full GPS to put in (do I recall 70,000 FEET?). I suspect it would take many times as long, cost many times as much money. IIRC he said aiming for @3’ depth? It’s common to have small raises in field. So the plow has to go deeper to maintain the slope. (Why they drive over route first empty). They can see if ground would require greater depth then tile machine can do, or worse. That in places the tile would get too close to surface. Hitting a tile with deep ripper ruins that tile. Requiring lots of backhoe work to find ends of damage, dig new tile in.

Some of the larger trenchers will go just as deep

Another trick to add traction is extend the boom / bucket maximum out in front of the machine. You have the counter weight on the rear so the boom extended out gets more weight on the front of the tracks.

It’s reprogrammed, if anyone uses that it sets off a trap door to a pit. ;).

Check millennia farmer from Minnesota he has had tile put in a different way

@@waynejones5239 I watched that video. Yes that makes a lot more sense to use a dedicated machine that is suitable for the job, rather than using a tractor which is hardly suitable for this and has to be helped by an excavator to move forward. The structural damage to the soil is enormous the way Grant does it.