It's Been Broken For Eight Years! Time To Work On This Sucker. 

Wow never heard the bow called a hummocks!!! Learned something new!!!

Great content. Neil is the absolute best! Love the channel and the projects he completes.

I think you nailed it. Um I mean I think you did a great job fixing it. Because you obviously didn’t use nails.😂 👍🏼 Y’all have a great week!!

Well, was a great video of the tile repair…, but sorry Neal.., “Orion” stole the show, the icing on the cake.., what a cutie. Thank you sir. P.S., I did learn quite a bit about the “tile” system in general, we had a kiln close by that fired tons of similar to the stuff you showed. It was smaller diameter, and shorter, did “not” have a “bell” on either end. I always wondered how it was put together.., you filled in that blank.., cans believe hey jus butt it up against each other…

I vote yes! Thanks for teaching us a sound method of repairing a field tile problem. Cheers!

Good video neil. I just thought I would give you a heads up if any of your viewers needs to find some salt bags like Dad used to use fertilizer bags for fixing tile, just tell them to give me a call I probably have 500 salt bags here that I would gladly loan them to fix their tile good job! Dad

Good video that’s what you call making it work

Nice repair , and nice addition to the family.

Glad u explained that it came out as I guessed it to be 🤪

Neil… at my childhood farm, our septic lines were 4” clay tiles. The standard in the 1950’s when it was installed was to use a double layer of tar paper to seal the joints. For the main line: The paper was laid in the trench and then folded over the top. As you can imagine, it was an imperfect seal. Sometimes it wrinkled and had open seams. No one bedded them in gravel because our soil was stony and porous… so it drained well. However, the stones cut through the tar paper. For the laterals: the paper was folded in half and laid atop the tile. This allowed the grey water to leach into the stony soil. Aside from the problems mentioned above… this created another issue. The cracks in the bottom provided a lure for tree roots! They drew them like grubs do moles. That backed up into the tank and caused the house to have backed up septic nearly constantly. We were forever spending our drought riddled summers digging out the green spots in the yard. The repairs we performed were to remove the broken tiles, snake out the roots and replace them with shiny new tiles and tar paper. About 1966 we changed the way we did the repair. A local roofing manufacturer sold ‘factory second’ roll roofing for the same price as tar paper. My dad went to his grave believing that he had solved the tile sealing problems! He was so convinced it was a great system that, when we moved to our new farm in 1970… he refused to use plastic septic tile when we replaced the failed septic system! Dad, if you’re listening, I think Neil’s repairs are a step up from our old method. You can Rest In Peace!

Neil. Just so you know. I find the content of your videos just awesome. The equipment videos is what brought me because of our background of work. But I have to tell you the main reason for me staying on all videos and spending many days going back through old videos is just your and your families togetherness and honest happiness. Especially for me having two younger daughters at home also. And I enjoy their always being involved in what you do which always brings me joy with my girls to me. So thank you very much and keep it up. It’s very well received.

A tile spade would have been handy digging in the trench... ;)

In the late 70s, I worked for a Ditch Witch dealer. The company made an attachment for their R-100 called a tiling chute. I had no clue what tile was and had to ask. It’s interesting to see the “tiles” in a real world application.

Great tips. That should be better than the rest of that tile as you stated. Good to see the happy little dude enjoying some uncle time during lunch. 😊

After watching your videos for awhile now it has made me realize how much drainage plays in to farmers fields never gave it to much thought before it makes for some great videos keep them coming

As usual Great job Neil Enjoy the week bud!

The way I'd have done that repair is to look for some good videos on RU-vid and try to do what they showed. Back when I was remodeling houses one type of sewer pipe that we dreaded finding was Orangeberg pipe. It was made from wood chips and asbestos saturated with tar and wrapped with wire. It was brittle and would always crumble if it hadn't already failed. Did farmers ever use that Orangeberg garbage for drainage pipe? Good job Neil, thanks for the video!

Great video, Neil! Thanks for a rare look at fixing an interesting situation! Stay well, stay safe!

Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation and detailed video.

I probably would have used an inch or two of duck tape on the “tile”. Uncle is a great role. The uncle with all the cool stuff.

It always amazes me that those old tiles just butted together worked. I think the repair will work fine. Like you said, your joint is better than the rest of the line. I wouldn't have thought to do that. I would have dug it back and used a bag or two of concrete around it. You must live in a perfect place. You seem out far enough, but everything is just a few miles away! lol

Thanks for the education! Take care my friend

Fabulous!!!!

Great job Love to watch these jobs

Awesome job Neil as always ....I was waiting on the bag of sakrete LOL

Very impressed job done right is done only once (hopefully)

That’s awesome way to do that and thanks for sharing. Blessing’s to your family.

Nice Work that’s pretty much the way we have done it. We haven’t used the salt bags, that’s a great idea. 👍✊

Another informative show on The Family Channel !

good video, teaching the young guys again, I like it.

looks good! I think that will last a long time! That low the clay just sucks to your feet!

Good job.

When I was about 5 my dad bought a very old ditching machine then proceeded to ditch the 70 tillable acres he owned, one or 2 fields per year. I was too young to be of much help but I still remember it very well. We of course used clay tile at the time. That would have been starting in about 1959 or 1960. I have never even heard of stone tile like in your pic though.

Great video again!! Thanks for the education. I love your editing style.

that was alot of fun and a new thing that I did not know existied under farms to move the water interesting and very cool!

I've worked on some old septic systems here where I live that used the old clay pipe. They were 4" in diameter, about 2 feet long with about a quarter inch gap between them to let the water trickle out of the system into the gravel bed. They always used the tabs off of shingles to cover the quarter inch gaps between the sections of pipe. The house I grew up in was built in 1945 and used this type of system and is still working today. I believe your repair should last at least as long as the rest of the old system. Stay safe my friend.

Good job as usual keep up the great work. Good to teach the younger generation how to do things. 😁

Great video. I miss doing field tile repair, did it for 2 summers and I enjoyed the job. the boss sat in the mini excavator or the backhoe and i did all the physical labor. Enjoyed learning about all the aspects of field tile, water lines, sewage lines. Was a blast.

Great repair. Smart using the salt bag. I’m going to steal that. Too bad you didn’t have a Dirt perfect tile plow and an 850j. lol. Keep the videos coming. It makes for a good Sunday morning

Great job love your videos thank you

I remember when my son looked like that 20 years ago. What a cute baby ! Thanks for this vid, I never knew fields had drain pipes in them, surprised at how deep down they are. Must have been a tremendious amount of work to install all those.

As I started to watch, I was already thinking about mentioning to use salt bags over your joints, and then…. Funny! That’s how we do it in Ohio and my wife’s family in Michigan does the same. Great minds

Lots of clay tile drains still in use here in UK too. Smaller, about 4" round. People collect them to make a cool wine rack, a bottle fits nicely inside. Cute lunch guest too btw!

I work in the Northeast part of the U.S. and a lot of cities still have clay pipe. When we dig utilities and break a clay pipe we use schedule 40 and fernco adaptors. Easy fix like you did.

Very nice Neil, I did it the exact same way last weekend. Should last forever the old salt bag trick works real well.

Good job. I remember when I first started in the oil field and I was always chosen to be the first guy in the trench with a shovel. Hey, new guy.... You bring your rubber boots to work the second day

Hello 🙋‍♂️from the Netherlands🇳🇱 Koch Family . nice repear job i think . thanks for the video Neil . Sincerely, Hollandduck

Great video as always Neil. Sometimes your videos hit me just a little differently and this was one of them. While you were digging the trench, I remembered being part of our soil judging team in FFA. I remember enjoying it but wish I would have put a little more effort into it. It's a lot more interesting to me now than it was when I was 15 or 16. My Aunt and Uncle lived just outside Haviland and I remember there being a huge tile (49) factory or supply depot that we drove past on the way to their house. Wouldn't be surprised if that's where the broken tile (50) came from.

Nice DDD jacket Neil! Great content as well!

Looks Good to me! I thought I might put in a bit of cement to help hold it together but I think your way is better for what we have over all. Might start saving to replace that tile altogether!

When I was a kid (1960's), I went hunting with my Dad and Uncle in the Greensburg area. We ran across a lot of tile holes.

Great project! We have a few low spots from broken tile in our front field.

Hmm, as your drone was going over the field, I was noticing other possible suck holes in the tile. I think that whomever is currently farming this field just needs to knuckle up and retile the whole field and get rid of the old clay tiles and be done with it. I know that the tubing is expensive and finding help to dig up and retile an entire field, but it will solve a whole lot of issues later on down the road. Thanks for another great video! See you in the next one!

That clay pipe is prone to collapse but you done a good fix for what you had to work with it needs redone with plastic throughout but the price of that pipe right now like everything else is cost prohibited lol

Looks like a good repair to me, not much more you can do. Old clay is pretty incredible to last the time it does. Gets bad wrap today because of age. Thanks for sharing 👍

Here in Northwest Al, we call plastic pipes tiles, and concrete is culvert. There are grey tiles sold here locally that are cheaper than concrete and are claimed to be just as strong.

Looks good to me. Sometimes you can’t let the pursuit of excellence get in the way of good enough.

Great work Neil. Some times I find home projects or those for friends or on the farm really difficult to do or accept a different standard. As professional with 15 years in construction management in Site work (excavation, road work, bridges, concrete, water & drainage, etc), Commercial construction, and resident construction; having to meet state, code, and architectural standards; and having to meet current OSHA Standards,... I frequently have a hard time seeing the mission/objective at hand and what is needed to fix the problem at hand while using minimum/limited resources (dollars, materials, equipment) at hand. Not to mention, I think all of us understand that there are certain things that cost less to do "now" versus later... That is you have a project opened up see something that could be improved or needs to be repaired or replaced soon and it should really be done since you are already there...because if you come back to do it later it will either cost more or you have to do all of the same work to open it up. This was an awesome reminder of fixing a problem with what you had on hand to make it work again, where to draw the line, and "good enough is good enough". As you know I am building my homestead now and helping my friend with his farm. DIY is a huge key. And knowing how to approach problems with limited resources to fix just the part that needs to be fixed is the other.

Excellent work and video. Only thing I would have done differently is put strainer fabric over tile and covered with 1 foot of gravel to prevent soil going inside. Anyway great job

I don't know anything about this but my brother is about to put down some "Tile", as you referred to it, next year, and hopefully, I can help. He is trying to fill in an area that he can drive straight into and extend the driveway that is already there to move equipment in and out. The drainage there is needed beyond his property or he would likely just pack in the soil.

Can tell I grew up around the area ... lol Understood it all wording included bet IN is no different than OH tile and fences causing grief. I have a county tile that crosses me that is blown out but even though the old guys now gone say it was so there is no record with the county now so it is just a tile serve me no good as I'm its outlet! An been there a few times over the years !

I always thought it was a giant tile 😂

I used to work for a tile drainage company. The double ended plastic couplers fit inside of the old clay tile.

I like the fix! Imagine it would be very expensive To replace the complete drainage system under a field. Where do all of the tiles lead to? I imagine that most fields are connected together?

If it was just water bearing pipe I'd say to line it. The problem is all those gaps where the tile meet are used to get the ground water out thus defeating the reason to line it. As you said the only way to deal with the issue is to replace the entirety of the tile. It looks like a good enough repair, personally I would have tried to use a snake or a hose to rinse the tile close to the compromised locations. Good work, and I hope it lasts.

Your going to be lucky because I’ll be back for the next one.

Looks like a solid solution for old clay tile that is long past it’s prime, cheap and effective. There is no sense in spending thousands of dollars to repair as there is going to be more problems in the future. The only permanent solution is plowing in new tile over the whole property.

First impressions. You are a wonderful teacher. Your knowledge of dirt is admirable. Getting past calling plastic pipe "tile" is admirable. You were certainly looking quite fit and healthy in this post. Handsome devil you! Now, putting more non-biodegradable fodder into the ground is kinda a party foul. The pipe is one thing, but the salt bags were just beyond the pale. The Amish would have used recycled, animal hair batts to stuff into the voids of the pipe. I know, use what's convenient for now. Just something to think about. Mazel tov on the addition to the Koch dynasty. By my count, that's 160,001. Love home brother and kiss the girls for me.

There is an old clay tile, that Dad said was hand dug back in the 1920's, that is still drain a field, kinda. In the early 60's, they turned the gravel, into a "hard road" and put a tube in under the road where the tile outlet is. The problem was, they put the tub in, about 18 inches ABOVE the tile outlet level. When they came back in the early 80's to replace that tube, Dad tried to convince them to put it down deeper, to the outlet level. I don't know why(STUPID, or just Stubborn Pffftttt!), but they refused to to do that. Instead, they dug up around the outlet and put a riser in. Water still drains from it, but there is a patch of about 10 acres that would highly benefit from the outlet being able to drain, rather than pump water up 18 inches.

Always a 100 ways to do it. Dig to a round tile and fernco clay to plastic/ads. Tile is always a pain not matter what.

Timely for me, I’ve got a hole waiting for a repair…

I deal with tile a lot at work. This video was great! Are you wearing thorogood boots? In the video it looks like the pair I bought this summer. I absolutely love them after trying so many boots over the years I’m liking my thorogoods the best. Spendy but comfy.

Have you ever worked with orangeburg pipe? The lifespan on that blows my mind considering it's construction. We've dug up some of it doing sewer work in the past, and it's usually in decent shape until you start touching it, then it practically disintegrates.

You missed a lot of Tile counts! 😁

So help me out here, "We Ain't got None of them thangs in Alabama." We have small fields compared to y'all but no drainage whatsoever. You have done several of these repairs on your channel. Some in the middle of fields some around folks houses. Do all fields have drainage systems like this? If not all, what percentage? most, few, etc.

Looks like a good fix. I always thought the the farmer generally owned the land. Is most farm land owned by some nameless, faceless corporation? Or does the federal government own it and it's leased to the farmer? As always, you do a good video.

I’m a new guy here that is a big sinkhole.

You may have covered this at an earlier time. Is the plate on the teeth of the backhoe bucket permanently welded on? I am curious as to how it is secured if not welded. And do you use a second bucket for digging in extremely hard ground. The way you fixed the tile was super!

Nice fix, why not a bad of premix concrete instead of the plastic bag?

That is a pretty big hole... Where did you go?😂

Let's fix the slop in the backhoe bucket 🤞

When you can see the problem on Google Earth, it's time to fix it lol.

hi there interesting john

No Legion? I guess we did a good job of blocking all the roads into Hicksville. Hope all is well.

tile thing reminds me nobody actually "dials" a phone since the 80's. but we still say "dial".Samegoes for comera "footage" or

If find the ability to see the difference in soil types, after 50 years; you should check out "Time Team", they will dig up sites where the expose different soil types after 1500 years.

Pipefitters unite.....lol.

Based on the condition of the current pipe, um.... tile, I think you will be back to revisit more of that pipe, uh... tile in another spot. Why was that drainage pipe, errr ... tile, there anyway? Wouldn't a surface ditch or swale along the field edge work instead of cutting thru the middle of the field? The reuse of the plastic bag and clay was a nice option assuming there isn't a lot of suction and/or pressure inside the um... tile.

I think I would have tossed a bag of concrete around each of those finished joints just to lock all pieces in place and prevent a way for dirt to suck into any gaps. The question on my mind is why is the tile collapsing? Does it break down over time or is it just due to continued compaction of the soil above causing too much pressure on the tile? Being round, it should have had excellent compressive strength.

When will there be more videos on the new dump truck

Just out of curiosity that hole was pretty big so that sucked in a lot of dirt where did all that dirt go is the rest of the tile clogged with dirt

spade or shovel. growing up a spade was a long skinny shovel. Now days i here people calling any shovel a spade

What is the purpose of the field tiles? Is it to drain the fields in heavy rain? I've never heard of them used in our area (Pa).

Could you use a rubber collar to attach??? Or too large a diameter??

If it works for you, it works for me! 😁👨‍🚒

Yeah I’d have done it differently. My inner street reconstruction inspector was going ape s**t! I’ve seen better repairs exposed that used duct tape! 1) Get some transition ferncos. I would have used clay/ plastic. Or a straight clay/clay fernco might work over the tile? What size was that 8”? 10”? 12”? 2) I would have used SDR 35 pvc pipe for repair. Tile is alright for this and way cheaper but if you have connections with local sewer/water contractors or local street shops you may be able to get some scrap deals. 3) Go scrape up some of that washed stone on your driveway to bed and protect that pipe. 4) sorry, just when dealing with any underground sewer piping, repair joints are critical. No one wants to see a hole thru a year or 2 old hot mix asphalt again and again.

Do field tiles replace water ways in fields? Or do fields contain both water ways and yield tiles. With out field tiles would the moisture just end up in the aquifer ?

Someone please explain to me why the tile line is in the field and where did it come from and where is it going. Thank you.

Tile counter is a little out of adjustment...

I may have missed it but what was the application of that tile used for?