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Having been a rice farmer at one time, what you need is to go out and survey the field, then plan a little dirt moving, doesn't look like it will require much, based on the drone footage. Then you move a little dirt so that all the ponds have a gentle path to drain off into the ditches. Problem solved, permanently. It takes about a day of tractor/plane work for field like that, And maybe a day to do the survey.
Your filming just gets better and better.. Thank you for all your hard work and thank you for showing us through such beautiful videoing in regards to how your farm operates
the pan is usually the layer of hard compacted vegetation resting on the subsoil that doesn't get broken up by ploughing. but mainly it is caused because the subsoil has no food for worms so they do not drill holes into the subsoil. also grass doesn't send roots deep like alfalfa does. the pan is what causes dustbowl lands.
I can't wait to receive my copy, I felt the emotion as you revealed the very first copy. Tom Pemberton, Farmer RU-vidr, Author, but more importantly an all round Nice guy. Well done Tom.
love the footage and we do the same thing in Australia. Normally we run it through after summer as it shatters the clay pan (different weather to you guys!) The water lying around won't cause compaction due to its own weight as the only pressure on the ground is the height of the water eg. 2" of water = 0.07 psi. Keep up the good work
Excellent video and explanation of what you have to do, - don’t ever fall out with your old dad, it is a very precious thing being able to work together - good to see. Fantastic use of your drone, what a brilliant way of being able to keep an eye on your fields, cattle. Modern technology in action. Thanks for showing this video Tom.
Bye hell lads!? That pan top is near on water tight!!! Some right surface slop under that water. Can't wait to see the results!!! ;) Proppa job done there!
And Less BIG PHARM!!! Its all about the local stuff. I try telling that to some of my friends but they don't understand that these small famers are being swalled up or run out of business by BIG PHARMA. I myself used to work on an Organic Dairy Farm in CA.
So what if small farms are getting swallowed up to run a big far it costs millions but will also make millions if there were only small farms us people from the uk would not come over to do the 2000 mile harvest and the Great Plains would slowly collapse
That's something new to me I have two friends who are farmers but they don't have any big animals they did not tell you have to do this driving like that through water I'd just love that job! great video I will look out for more.
Like others, I just came across your channel while reaching "Micro trenching for Fiber cable" and after been raised in Ireland, right in the middle of farming land (Co.Cork) your channel is fantastic.. Unfortunately after a trip home a few weeks ago I was so shocked and disappointed to see nothing but abandoned building sites, and just nothing but new houses built (or at least on or two of them finished) where all my old farming friends used to work the land... You have a definite subscriber here..Keep up the great work, and the really good videos that show just how smart and hard working our worlds farmers really are 10/10
The old boys right,, going across the grain, so to speak, will catch some hard ground. and drain the water off better. U just need to reach into some sub soil and it will drain away, are farm has no ponds, ditches, just clay very early,, we regularly pulled two tractors chained up for extra power to break threw the hard stuff, and away the water would go.
you know i did not grow up on a farm but this is surely the next best ! Thanks so much for bringing the love of nature and life into this poor poor world ! soon we can fix all the places that are just plugging the system. god's system. have a perfect day and best wishes there on that slice of heaven !
Hi Tom and andy pem serious water problem never as bad when i worked for Andrew and big grandad john 30 yrs ago? Too many houses being built or damage from growing maize in the past probably to high in magnesium causing tight soils
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Good video Tom we were out slurrying on Tuesday with a 2000 gallon tanker first time this year. We had to get the contractor with the umbilical now we have foot of snow. Big problem with pipes freezing 😬
I've never seen the land so wet in my Somerset orchards as this Spring, but I don't think mole-ploughing will help because there are no land drains to remove the water and the water table is so high. Good luck with your land, Tom.
Never heard of "mole plough". It seems to me that this plough is not going deep enough.for such situations i use subsoiler wih "ball" on the end of knives. At depth 50-65 cm.
Here in Thailand, people have been leveling their rice fields for thousands of years by buffalo and then two-wheeled walk behind tractors. They level, flood, plant, and irrigate.
Maybe a nice cleanup with a land leaving rig in a year or so could help, dissent look like a lot of yardage. Here in the mississippi delta we set our fields to a few inches drop going away from the well pipe.
Hey, Miss the farm life. Love seeing this footage, drone and in hidef. Keep up the good work and sharing some of your farm life skills and techniques. Cheers from America!
Love the video Tom. Great idea, your dad's one smart cookie. Let me guess he got to play in the mid and water, and you got to wash it. Lol do you think you'll have to reseed any of those spots. My area is mainly corn and wheat and beef cows. Alot of no til. I've noticed over the years more low spots where water stands, wonder if it's that same problem like your having ( just a random thought) really enjoy your videos especially when your dad's in em. He ain't shy in front of the camera at all, and I love listening to his knowledge. Thanks again tom
Just shows the experience your dad has, if that was me driving into them wet spots I'd have her buried Into the axle in seconds!!!! keep up the good work
Hey I found you guys by chance when your vid popped up on suggested. We had a very similar piece of of gear on the potato farm I worked on as a teen that was called a "sub soiler". It was the same idea as yours but it pulled a 8" diameter by about 12" long bullet shaped plug of steel connected by a couple of links of chain. But we would back it into the ditch and start pulling from there right into the puddles so the water would pour into the channel it created in the ground and then flow straight out to the ditches. Within seconds we had a full stream of water shooting out the exit hole in the ditch and as you pulled threw the puddle the water would just disappear. Thought you might be interested. Have a great day.
similar effects but with him having drains he doesn't wash away soil and fill his own drainage ditches at the cost of a few weeks time for the water to seep through
That is how it should be done otherwise the water has nowhere to escape,. It just fills the mole hole making for a mud bath instead of running out of a mole drain and away into a ditch. If the ditches are clean the water should drain away into a river. If the river is up and the ditch cannot clear water out then the process of mole draining is pointless because the water table is too high and no amount of drains will take the water away. Though I suspect you know this already.
I’m the USA we call that a subsoiler. This is also a problem if you have a pasture that has had or has many cattle or horses on it. I had standing water all over and run off since my all my pastures have a gentle 5-10 degree slope toward the ponds/creek until I started running a sub soiler across the pasture at a right angle to the slope. Why is there a license plate or number plate on your tractor? Is that required where you are?
Mole drains work on a slight incline, and need to take that water to a ditch, not just round and round in circles. I'm not sure that your fields are suffering from intermittent areas of clay pan.
As a connoisseur of tractor pulls iron through mud videos this one is great. Well photographed, explained and with good music. Know any way to drain spring fed wet spots?
Seems like you could've used a Big Bud tractor with 16 plows on the end...maybe a pass or two and your field would have the best drainage in the county.
I have stood in a field i had sub soiled that had not been done for years and I could hear the water moving ,a sucking type sound.single shank i.h. Sub soiler
The Ginger Warrior in the Silver Arrow, a great combo, hope the beast from the east and Emma did not cause too much bother for ye in the milking parlour Tom:)
Why not install subsurface drainage if there is a deep enough ditch or stream bank to drain the water to rather than rut the field and compact the soil even more?
Dont you want something that breaks the ground up behind the tractors tyre tracks? Surely the tyres are compressing the soil and water will build up there?
Can you dig s trench put drainage pipe under gtound like other chsp or more than one would it work or is it judt too much water he used grsvrl too in how yo dry out s wet field.imgine being able go collect all that water And using; it on thecfsrm Fsrmhow many tank fills that is.
Interesting. That wouldn’t work in my neck of the woods… under the 6” to 24” of topsoil, the subgrade is compacted clay all the way down, so all drainage is pretty much surface drainage. The legacy of ancient glacial lakebeds. Farmers here spend a lot of time shaping fields so they drain.
Western Canada, specifically, under the area where Glacial Lake Edmonton used to be. The widespread variance in geology is fascinating. We once had some German engineers (that built our earthmoving equipment) on site, and I think the wide prairie and lack of heavy forest was disconcerting. One asked “How far down is bedrock?” And depending on how you define it, it can be hundreds or thousands of feet down if you don’t accept sandstone. :) Before the glacial lakes, it was shallow seabed from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. That’s a lot of sediment.
Pans are also a by product from spreading slurry.....Ariel view of your fields are neath...do ye plant any wild flower or do anything for the fire and fauna
You shouldn't make these trenches with the soil so wet. You're effectively compacting the soil to promote more standing water. And by dragging fine slurry through your channels, you're effectively making concrete in your soil structure. A better approach would be more thorough subsoil along a keyline pattern whenever the soil dries up a bit. Happy farming!
Youssef Darwich Morning mate, I know what you saying but when it comes dry the water seems to go slowly and before it was not moving but every dry day we get we seem to get 2 wet days at the moment. I think we might have to get a subsoiler in but just don't like to make a mess this time of yesr
To be fair, you cannot compact water logged soil, you can only move it, makes a bit of a mess but will not compact, if its not waterlogged though, then that's a different story.
