Field Drainage - Installing a Catch Basin and Main County Drain with CSI 

Cool, very professional crew, every one working together, getting the job done. Like it is supposed to work in Washington but we know that aint goina happen! Thanks for the video!!

This kind of operations is what tells that USA is great . All the best from Morocco.

Thanks for sharing the video of installing replacement County drainage. Makes sense the County should provide major drainage lines. I grew up in Fruita, Colorado on a 40 acre horse hay farm. Dad ceramic tiled the twenty foot deep drainage ditch top 40. He recovered many more acres to farm. Then, he had the farm leveled. But, we always had a small alkali sink in a .25 acre. I like the plants in it. Dad also installed cement ditches to have enough water for the hay & pumpkin farm. Three of us kids had our own pumpkin business young. Adding irrigation water in the high desert, caused higher levels of alkalinity in the fields. They installed drainage for alkaline water to drain from Grand Valley floor old sea bed. So, government over a hundred yrs ago, installed in a grid if open drainage ditches through the valley from Palisade to Mack, CO. Then, it was up to property owners to maintain the deep drainage ditches, that dump off into the next wash. Then, most of the irrigation ditches in the Grand Valley were cemented to reduce the alkalinity in the Colorado River.

Very Interesting. I have Never seen a Machine like the one in the video. I have seen the Older machines like that but not a modern. Thanks for sharing.

Very good video. Thank you.

That was very cool!!!!! Couldn’t have been done better!!! The soil was perfect too. No rocks or roots or much else. Very well done! Everyone did their part really well from the trenching to the pipe laying to the backfilling!!!! Loved it!

I have personally worked for CSI and they do one hell of a job getting jobs done efficiently and in a safe manner.

Same with the weather here in the Mid-Ohio River valley. 80s one day and snow the next. Mother Nature decided on an April Fool's joke.

I kind of miss playing dirt ! 👏👏👏👏👍great job 👍🚜🪝🪝⛓⚙️

Great machines. They are doing a great job, but they may want to consider pointing the bell end of the pipe upstream for better connection integrity.

Great vidio Mike. My father-in-law was a ditcher too. I in Florida for the winter watching a Farmhand Mike vidio.thats awesome.

Wow, that's a pretty slick operation, everyone knows exactly what they're doing. And that soil looks nice and rich as well.

Cool video. Never seen them lay the big pipe!

Outstanding video! 😉 Thank you very much! 😊👍🏻

Very interesting video Mike!!! Great job! 👍

Amazing group of people and equipment , extremely efficient, great work.

Would be good to see this working when finished if possible. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

Hey from over the pond here in the UK, awsum video, no messing, straight to the action, loved it, you got a sub

I miss running heavy equipment. The good ole days. :)

When the trencher picked up the box, there was a lot of weight on back and you could see her lifting a little on the tracks. Very quick operation in the right ground conditions plus the crew know there jobs very well..

Good video Mike. Enjoyed that very much.

Nice machine 👍👍👍👍👍

thanks I love the drone scenes

Never seen something like this before. Thanks 🙏 Mike for sharing great 👍 video!

Up in Hardin County, Ohio back in the day Dad backfilled with his John Deere MD Crawler. Would have blisters on his hinnie at the end of the day. A man would use a spade on the non-dirt pile side to cover the tile so a rock from the backfill would not break the tile. Dad referred to these as the "County Ditch or Tile".

Now that's an interesting operation, with some very interesting kit

You don't see that out in Oregon. Thanks for sharing as that was some great footage👍‼️

Man that is one heck of a gopher...You could fertilize my soil here in middle Ga. with that soil. Never seen topsoil that deep. No sand or clay just black gold. It is no wonder you folks make the yields you do. I have done drain tile before. That is hard work in that pit. That is one big shoe on that digger. Biggest we ever ran was a 12 inch. Those guys have it down to a science.

Class job ,looking in from Ireland 🇮🇪

excellent upload. Full watched and have a wonderful day.

Enjoyed the video.

Excellent video Mike 🚜👍

What a machine

Mike, Had some idea of this process but your video sure made it a lot clearer. Great Drone shots too. Thanks. Look forward to more this year. Jack Rutledge

awesome team work

Always great to see a competent experienced crew at their best. Bonus suspense and mystery: that rock at about 17 minutes!!! are they going to take it out with them, plant it deep for a future bounteous crop (we all know that rocks are down there propagating maliciously), or just leave it there??? the Farmhand Mike Hitchcock channel. lol

Speicher has come a long way from 6 wheel Chev 6 cyl gasser, 4 pickup transmissions inline and a set of cross arm targets

Super neat video and educational too. Thanks Mike!

Nais video!. Thank you.

nice work guys

Zdravím a krásné záběry! :) :)

So cool

Very interesting video. I enjoyed it and learned something new

Really great ROV vids!

Gut job!!!

I know that area. Worked with Midmark Corp as one of my MFGs in the bioMed industry.

the structure they set is the low point in which they are starting at and laying pipe to the high point like your supposed to do then that would mean they are laying their pipe backwards. The bells always go up hill.

That looks pretty interesting😁👍 Well done Mike👍😉

Loved the hooovering shot showing the entire crew at work AFTER showing the operation being preformed at each different work station. I ahve laid literally 1000’s of miles of waterline and loved watching this trencher/digger. never been around one. My curiosity question is simple: How many feet per hour will this machine average in good digging like this?

Pretty neat little operation. Nice and efficient

Very studious. Exalted Alumnus of COW COLLEGE, State University. Graduate Student Degree in Land Improvement, the privilege to pay property taxes for Agricultural use at the highest level. My hat is off to you my Colleagues.

Damn impressive operation! Well organized crew of good working men. Time for some bushings on the cats bucket pins 🤫

This was different, but I liked it a lot, Thanks Mike

Unreal they would put that much money into a drainage system as if it was a subdivision.

G'day Mike happy new year mate

Excelente video 👌👍🇻🇪

Awesome as always Mike. Great crew doing this job 100% your not having a bad day until your B@&$/ deep in mud and water. Stay healthy and safe everyone from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

👍 heck of a video Mike

This was great

That tracker that is digging the pipe ditch. Similarly sound of that machine in one the episodes of the six million dollar man what actor Lee majors was fighting that machine.

Interesting video

intresting video Mike

Interesting video.

Great job

My brother in law does tileing i know all about this, he has done tileling for me 👍👍👍

DAM THAT LOOK LIKE FUN JOB

Awesome

That may be more fun and interesting to watch than the farming itself. Without a doubt, unless you have sandy soil, tile is probably the best money you can put into the farmland. You don’t see wheel diggers much anymore, but there’s nothing better for the job when you’re dealing with that big diameter pipe. Happy New Year Mike and thanks for sharing!

I remember as a kid dropping clay tile into the ground . Talk about sore hands at the end of the day .

that is some kinda beautiful farm soil all the way to the bottom of the trench!

The guy in the excavator Will get better with time

Coming from a fellow tile installer here. They are laying the pipe backwards. Also I didn't see them checking elevations to ensure proper height of pipes or manhole besides the level. I'd be very nervous of this company in my opinion. However they have a nice looking buckeye!

Mike you give us a Wonder wheel for new years. :) Now find the same thing as a ballast cleaner on a railroad next to or on a farm love ot watch that! Maybee John deere or Versitle on the move on the railroad. Love to see farm equip move on a train!

That's one helluva digger

Why is farm field tile drain pipe be laid without geotextile fabric, but geotextile fabric is used when laying drainage pipes around a building foundation or French drain? Thank you in advance.

Mantap Broo 👍👍

Ok if the 24s are draining into the 30, then they're laying the pipe backwards

interesting video

That angled connection to the concrete basin and then that second pipe to connect to it, they look suspect to me. I think there will be premature problems there.

Wish the county would do these drains in Len.Co. Michigan where they need it. Thanks mike

One of the pipes exiting the junction box appears not to be joined properly, wouldn't that allow water to not drain properly?

Well that was interesting, (and good), video of an operation you don't see everyday. Who stands the cost of it all after it splits, or is it just divided evenly amongst everyone who uses it. Also do they run anything over the top of the filled in trench after, or is it just allowed to settle on it's own.

be interesting to know the average annual rainfall

Currently laying field tile in celina Ohio it has been a mix of issues between the tile plow not working right ground way to hard cause of the clay and a whole mix of things

Nice😃😃😃

Shouldn't there be gaskets fitted where the corregated pipes enter the basin?

Easy work in a cornfield. Try doing that in the city with underground utilities to deal with. Need trench boxes. Safety disaster waiting to happen.

Collectively that is a “well oiled machine”

Forcing the angles instead of using 33 degree or 45 degree fittings saves on costs but results in less than optimal solidity of the connections as well and most likely premature problems.

Interesting video👍👍 Once they're rolling, how many feet of pipe can they put down per hour?? Thanks!

Are you sure they have done this before amount of gravel there using is wortless the pipe they took out was plastic not clay

I did enjoy the video but it would be appreciated if you would bring the drone down lower to the project for a better perspective thank you

Люди живут с какой то перспективой куда то идут, завидую и восхищаюсь потому что мы в России уже давно никуда не идём да и не уверен шли ли вообще куда-нибудь

Mike, did you mention how many miles of tile were laid and how many days this installation took to completion? Good job with the video.

How deep is the topsoil.? It looks like it’s all the same top to bottom.

Cool

Why wasn't the side where the pipe is coming in at an angle, why wasn't the concrete form built to handle that angle cleanly?

Great video! Do you have any footage with the exit of these pipes? It will be interesting to see how much water is drained out of the field.

Who is Mike Less?....I was told to watch his channel..by this guy who knows this guy...🤔

What if you hit a really big rock or ledge? Really interesting video