These guys are smooth ! Pretty good conditions not froze to deep not to muddy not crazy hot . The old timers and their tile spade and three inch clay tile would marvel at this hugh ? The technology that designs and lays all that out is quite something cause water still has to run down hill and has to have an outlet of some kind ! This is one of the best tile laying videos I have seen ,those tile plows are serious horsepower and traction , I think there are considerably bigger ones than these ? This was a good year to have tile in just about any form or field ! Thanks for the interesting video !!
Totally fascinating, first time I've ever seen tiling done. I've laid tile before in fields but not like this. Hope your able to go back in the spring to show the effects of this work.
Nice video Mike. We do our own drainage here in Eastern Ontario with a JD 4760 and O'Connell drainage plow. A very rewarding feeling when your wettest ground goes to your dryest the next spring.
When I was a kid, we dug the trenches with tile spades.. one spade full at a time. Much cooler now with the heavy equip. Was in IA, and there were two brothers who tiled together, dropping in clay tiles. Don't recall the time for a 40 acre field, but was surprisingly fast for hand labor.
My uncle had much of his farm tiled with a wheel shovel and clay tile. I remember the carts full of clay tile and helping load them onto the slide that fed them into the ground. There wasn't any laser depth control either. They used tall metal stakes with adjustable cross pieces used as guides for depth control. I thought it was genius. A few years later there was a plow and rolls of tile being used. A great memory of the old days.
Yep I remember my great grandfather telling me as a kid how some tiling was done on the farm with steam shovels and I think there was the very old picture of it but that was 70 years ago
Another great video Mike that was very interesting you sure put a lot into them thanks again hope you and yours have a nice xmas and a very happy new year 🏴👍👍👍
Nice change in videos Mike...they do a lot of this in Southern Ontario...I've never seen the tracks on a tiling machine missing so many cleats...must be by design...more traction maybe..
I always wondered how they connected to the mains with a tile plow. Now I know! I thought the plow would cut the main but I didn't consider it just went over the top.
Great video, it is great to see this work done up close. We had a neighbor that used a Buckeye ditcher to tile our fields with clay from Findlay and cement tile. It was hard work setting those tile into the ditcher. They used posts with height adjustable cross to set the level using a sight on the ditching wheel. I assume they are now using GPS to set the depth and tile spacing. It would be interesting to see how that works. Thank you Mike! Have a Merry Christmas
Water goes from the tile they are laying here to the main then that will generally hook into a big main or a drainage ditch and so on and end up going where any rain water runoff would eventually end up.
Mike do they add pitch to the pipe as they trenching it in the ground? It seems from the video that this land is kind of level? Thanks so many videos talk about tile this really helps to better understand how it works.
Pretty sure it's a connection like at 14:50 where he is coming in over the main pipe and what you see him cut off and leave unhooked is just accuse pipe on the other side. I could be wrong but that's my guess
Bernie Delaney that un joined pipe will only be like a couple feet long it just where he started in with the plow at like 14:50 is what I'm talking about
VERY interesting video! Thank you! Did the 8" mainlines get laid in the same way, same machine? I presume the 4" laterals are perforated at some interval, but the 8" mainlines are solid, ... right? The 540hp Cat seems hardly taxed.
Guess that is what is called 'ridin the plow"........ We don't do a lot of that here in Ga. Mostly in the low lying areas where bottoms have been cleaned up etc... Like the folks in Texas we generally need all the moisture we can get! Couple of questions and they are do they charge by the foot or acreage and why was the second operator doing a zig zag motion with the plow?
Around the 35.30 mark the machine seems to be wiggling from side to side - is it an 'optical illusion or just my imagination', and why when we saw the 'connecting operation' in the trench did he only connect one side to the main pipe, - was it because the field was on slight downward slope and we couldn't see it. Very interesting video - they do it just the same in the UK.
crawlers need both tracks biting when one slips the driver has to slow the gripping track down the the whole crawler slows down he has to keep a good balance to keep traction and keep his line. auto steering cant cope just his day job.
@@raypitts4880 With virtually everything GPS nowadays I'm surprised it can't sense it, anyhow at least it gives the chap in the cab something to do. One thing you might know is, - what do they do with the excess earth that is pulled back up on top of the trench, surely they don't just leave it to 'settle' on it's own.
Moves the problem down stream, that’s all. Don’t blame the guy, proper soil drainage is necessary for yield but, water is getting from point A to point Z too fast.
To drain excess water from the fields. It really paid off this past spring and summer with all the rain we had. It would let the fields dry out in the spring faster for the farmers to plant crops sooner 👍
Too bad you failed to mention how many feet of tile are on a spool, couplings for continuous runs are taped together to keep from separating, when he cut latteral to connect to main, he tied in both directions next to each other at that time; then bedded same. Chains dragging on ground were to avoid static electricity due to running on steel tracks. There is a cable with grab hook to attach to large tractor or bulldozer for losing traction in wet/soft spots. That covers what you did not. Your filming is great, you have a good voice for narrating, just need some details now & then. BTW have been involved with drain tile since age of 9 hand digging w/3 pt shovel, gen purpose spade, tile hoe, wooden folding rule & level. Supplied my own blood, sweat & callouses. Then onto backhoe & ten to wheel trencher & now tile plow. In northern Ohio we did on my land 6" mains , 4" laterals spaced every 25' on center due to heavy clay subsoil.
