I'm an engineer and a wannabe farmer and I loved this video. Very cool. Thank you.

@aTrippyFarmer

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I work in an office most of the day, far removed from anything agricultural, but somehow i find this fascinating, just watched 50 minutes of enjoyable pipe laying !

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I make these videos for people just like you. It's a whole different world out here in flyover country!

@stedmanwheless5372

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it may be easier to derive a sense of accomplishment from something immediately tangable as opposed to (making an assumption of you here, forgive me) something like a report or spreadsheet.

@fmar.8311

2 жыл бұрын

@@stedmanwheless5372 I would agree with that. I work as a portfolio manager trading on the stock market. While our work gets done very well, it's not the same as seeing something physical getting done as opposed to just some numbers on a screen.

@SmeetCoProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@stedmanwheless5372 Absolutely! There is also something really wholesome and rewarding about working with soil/plants/nature. Most of the farmers i have met have been well-grounded, well-adjusted individuals. Then again, i have not met that many...

@Masa-vc8hk

Жыл бұрын

@@stedmanwheless5372 o ' îmi..om

i with you really enjoy seeing this ,and i hope the generations forward appreciate all the effort and pride that was put into this project!!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Well said! Thanks for watching!

I'm looking forward in seeing future water discharge updates as the season progresses. Best wishes this planting season...

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I am excited, too. Of course, that would involved some big rains... 😒

Yes I too, have really enjoyed watching this operation take place. Thanks for taking time in filming this job.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Nice video keep it up! *Greetings from Discovery KAI Channel*

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks!

I helped my brothers and Dad tile a couple of hundred acres in the early 50's. I was ten or 12 at the time. My job was to set tiles from the flatbed truck onto the wooden chute as the truck drove down the ditch.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a lot of hard work. I am sure you earned your pay... or maybe just food... that day! Things sure have changed since then. Thanks for sharing!

Nice video,tiling always pays, $50,000.00 sounds and is alot of money, but your hoping to gain maybe 900 bushel of beans on that farm,at 80 bushel of beans per acer you would have to buy about 11 acers of land to gain that same 900 bushel of beans, where improving this land you don't pay for the land, seed ,fertilizer,weed control ,machinery cost ,or taxes on another 11 acers ,you already pay it on this land every year ,when you put that into prospective the 50K is a good investment

@paulprigge1209

2 жыл бұрын

Yes cornGot Above seven dollars a few weeks ago.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Yep that's a great way to look at it. 50,000 probably wouldn't even get you 3 acres in our area right now. This tile should gain us much more!

This was a great video. It's very interesting to see the tile actually being laid.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I hope you can get a good return for all the expense! I live in East Yorkshire, UK, and the whole area was marshland until 1700 then a series of drainage plans were put in place and landowners dug ten foot deep and ten foot wide ditches to drain all the land. As the land dried out the ditches were filled in and built or farmed over.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Large drainage projects have been one of the most important feats of modern agriculture. Often times, the drained land is some of the most productive. I hope this is the case here!

@rosewhite---

2 жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer I hope so too but I can't imagine the total cost for you. My local ten foot drains were all dug by starving peasants paid with a bowl of porridge a day! I planted a delphinium plant two days ago and top soil is super black stuff full of worms but only about 5 inches deep over solid sand. Worms won't tunnel into sand.

It's been a while since I've been on the farm but it looked to me like you have 12 to 16 inches of top soil, that is really good land and you are right to do whatever is needed to keep it producing.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

We are very fortunate to have areas with highly productive soils. There is a lot of variability with our location on a glacial moraine... thanks for watching!

WOW What a great video, Amazing info and what a great job the boys done for you all. Stay safe family.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

They did great work. Their shop is actually just a mile away from that farm, so it was convenient for everyone!

Iv been doing drainage in north central Indiana for 40 yrs and for a farmer, you nailed everything you said on the head !!! Not to many farmers take the time to understand how tile works or how much time and labor it takes. And with the old tile , you said it correctly for if it's worth hooking back up or not. Keep up the great work and keep learning and passing on knowledge. 👍

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that. Drainage is becoming an important part of every farm. It’s one of the best places to spend money!

@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk

Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer have you done a follow up video showing this tile in action?

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk a few videos after this there was a really big rain that I showed, but it wasn’t the focus of the video. If we get a huge rain this year, I’ll probably make a video focusing on the performance of the new system!

@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk

Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer I found it. I had to watch 4 videos though which is great for the algorithm. 😂😂 Great work. My wife asked why I was watching people dig in the dirt. 😂😂😂 She just doesn’t understand a boy, a mud puddle and some Tonka toys.

Wow, that was very interesting. I have only seen 6" and 8" lines put in with a plow, but this operation for 24" is a whole different story !

Really enjoyed this video. As always they get a thumbs up before even watching. Keep up the good work and thanks.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! Thanks for watching.

Awesome Video and Much Love as Always!!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching as always!!

Fascinating! First time seeing a soil snow blowerish thingy.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It does kind of look like a snow-blower with how it throws that dirt!

This was a top grade documentary ! Well done.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Hello, This video was nicely presented, and informative for people removed from the soil of the Earth. Our family has been on this farm since 1907, while have only been here since 1948. I can remember Grampa hiring Johnny and Pauly, to hand dig some 4” clay tile lines. I have recently put in 3000’ of 4” perf. over a couple years. As you explained here, the weather runs your business. Our son is a pipe layer in Akron, Oh., and has helped me to learn some of the skills to keep the land healthier. Your comment about losing faith in people. Sadly, this is a byproduct of fewer two parent families, and moving around the country. Thanks again for the great program.

My Grandfather had 2 Buckeye ditchers and ran Grade targets installing Clay Tile 😁 In 1976 we ran tile plows with Spectra physics lasers, 1.5 Million feet on average and now everyone is up to GPS grade controls. You had to live it to appreciate how far drainage has advanced.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I bet that was a sight to see. Technology sure has made things easier, but those old-timers earned their pay. Thanks for sharing!

As a kid i always enjoyed seeing dirt and rock being moved in some fashion by a yellow earth mover. From a retired marine engineer in nz.☺

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It sure is neat! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for showing the big 24 inch laying.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Watched this some months ago but found it so interesting that I came back again today. Found your place on google earth and looking at the past 30+ years I can see why you really needed to do this. Lots of water/wet areas in some years. I grew up in western Nebraska and worked on farms there in the summers but it was so dry there and not as flat as you are so tile wasn't something people needed to do. We were lucky to get 15 inches of precipitation a year and 7 or 8 was all we got some years. Thanks for taking the time to put this up. Best wishes for the new year.

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice comment, Marv. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. It is really neat to see how different the farming conditions are across the country, even if we grow some of the same crops. Best wishes!

@marv1405

Жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer One of my hobbies is genealogy. Appears your family homesteaded there in the mid 1800s. Great that the farm is still in the family. Both my grandparents were farmers in Western Nebraska, but they lost out in the dust bowl days of the 1930s. One of my cousins still farms the place our great great grandparents homesteaded in Eastern Nebraska but none of his children are interested in farming, so the farm won't likely remain in the family very long after he passes. It appears love of farming is an inherited trait. When we get back to Nebraska, we still visit the farm family I worked for 60 years ago. Sadly, he passed recently. And none of his kids are interested in farming so that tradition will end with him.

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

@@marv1405 it is fun to think about the history of the farm, but it only takes one series of bad luck or distinerest from the next generation to end the lineage of a farm. That seems to just be the nature of life. There are many farms that grow stronger by the day, and others that continuously decay away. It is very hard for outsiders to grasp how farming is much more than an occupation-it is a way of life. You are correct about our history. We actually have deep roots. If you go to the Illinois sesquicentennial farm lookup, you can see that the dole family is one of 9 that have deep roots. We actually had 2 seperate sides of the family from the same generation, but we sold that farm for a development that never came to fruition.

I work for a tile crew. I found your video very interesting. Always a good opportunity to see how others do things.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Tiling is hard work, and I appreciate what you do!

Interesting video, good video to educate city dwellers who think you just sow seeds, water, and harvest. Thank you for taking the time.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Very educational and enjoyable. Good luck in the future

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Nice of them to do their maintenance while they're on your time....very generous indeed.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

They don't charge by the hour 😂

@robo1210

2 жыл бұрын

Tile work is charged by the foot. Doesn’t matter if it takes them a day or two weeks.

That black soil is something else and so deep.too, has a serious amount of fertility.I Really glad you have good neighbours, we worked extensively with ours back in the day, their land was a week or two earlier than ours, so it fitted well for scheduling and sharing equipment.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

That soil is extremely productive as long as it can be drained. I agree about the neighbors we are fortunate to be surrounded by so many great people!

@safffff1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer Can the soil organic matter be increased enough to act as one big sponge to let the water flow down into the aquifer? I see Greg Judy's farms seem to hold several inches of rain with out a lot of run off. Do you get more than 50" of rain? Is the water table close to the ground?

@DeminicusSCA

2 жыл бұрын

@@safffff1000 its all the rain and snow that build up all winter, you have to get rid of it, with all that water you cant plow or run equipment over the land it will get stuck and compact teh soil , and the seed wont sprout that just die in the. without drainage its a swamp for months , then you miss your planting season . greg judys land its NOT flat and not the same soil. these farmers know what they are doing there life depends on it.

Great video very enjoyable and educational thanks for sharing it with us, Greetings from Minnesota ....

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Andy. I watch you all the time on my main 50 inch TV at home. I rarely comment but watch every video...

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! I hope that you can watch in 4K on that big TV, so long as your internet can handle it. 4K looks GOOOOOD on TVs!

I was fascinated with this job!

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Great informative vid Andy. Amazing how different things are done in different areas of the country. I always love seeing things done different than what happens in our area.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! You all probably do it quite different out to the east.

I graduated in 1962, first job as a 98 pound weakling working for my uncle as the boy who brought the cement tile to the ditch where the guy in the shoe hooked it and dropped it into the trench. Mud, sand, caved walls, rocks, stuck machines, then long commutes to and from jobs, lunch pails, old cars, pickups, job ended with the frost, off to the navy after Thanksgiving. Barely made the minimum weight in spite of all the work. I had fun and wore out my hands, cement is like sand paper, thousands of tiles carried to the ditch. Seeing the modern equipment in action is always interesting to me. My cousins still do ditch tiling in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that sounds like a lot of work. There are so many jobs in the modern day that have been made substantially easier by machines and technology. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this job. It will pay dividends you many years to come.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

You have a good relationship with your neighbors

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't hurt to be friendly to everyone... never know when you're going to need a favor!

FACINATING ! THANKS FOR SHARING!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I'm from the UK, and seeing miles and miles of completely flat land like that, with nothing on the horizon messes with my head! It just doesn't look real to me. Nothing where I live is flat, everything has some slope, unless someone went to the trouble and expense to flatten their lot.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Almost completely different worlds! It can be flat and wide open for mile after mile around here. Thanks for watching!

@realrayra

2 жыл бұрын

Lesseee, UK is about a quarter million square km. Just one of the major agricultural states in the USA, Kansas, is 211k sq km. Nebraska is 198k. Iowa 145k, Ohio 105k. CA's central valley is nearly 200k. Just flying over the USA shows vast expanses of every type of terrain.

Thanks for the video, I found it very interesting.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Mate I'm a skipper by trade drive charter boats and I find this so fascinating great video keep them up. From sunny Nelson New Zealand 🇳🇿

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the comment! Best wishes!

WOW!!!AMAZING PIPE LAYING

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

keep em coming! fascinating to a city guy like me.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

You got it!

Enjoyed the tile work and the black soil at depth!! Never tiled on my western Canadian farm, it was cheaper just to buy more land! That is changing too!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

This tile job would only have bought us a shade over 3 acres in our area. Land prices look good on your balance sheet, but it sure hurts to buy more nowadays!

Hay dude, this is a great video man, I always wanted to know and see how it done, so thanks for sharing,

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

The road, the trencher is like, ‘yeah, no problem, I’m through’. Cool machine. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Like a hot knife through butter...

Marty had to write a big check for this one!💰💰

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It was an expensive project, but it should pay quickly!

That wheel trencher looks like a logging skidder converted. The cab reminds me of a Tigercat. Very cool video.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I am sure there are some similarities! Thanks for watching!

That young man in bibs is a stud!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

Awesome to see thanks for sharing.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Did that work 50 yes a go back then it was Clay title brought back some great memory's

I found it very interesting as well man. Great video!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Out standing and informative as always 👍 can always tell when area farmer's have a good year...lots of tile work being done👌 improve the farm and don't pay as much to Uncle Sam😁

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

If you think the tile work is a good sign, you should see the lots at the John Deere dealerships...nothing left for sale! I am a big believer in drainage, so I'd like to start budgeting in 100 acres of patterns a year to help improve our yields.

@maxium4x4

2 жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer That shiny new Combine doesn't make you money, tile does even in dry year. Put your drone to work during the season on the fields, you will see the tile lines as crops grow if you have no information or tile maps to help. We used to fly fields with an airplane on unknown ground about 12 noon on a Sunny day and take pictures.

Very enjoyable video! AMAZING what that machine can do. Would enjoy follow up when the tile starts flowing water and what the field looks like...Thanks

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I'll follow up later in the season. It's almost guaranteed that we will get a flooding rainfall at some point.

Super interesting, thanks for sharing 👍

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

The tiles on our farm near Washburn, Il were all clay tiles. When the area would flood, after it dried out we would go out and hand dig, replacing broken and crushed tiles. This was in the late 40’s.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the comment. I cannot tell if those are good memories or bad ones, but I'm happy to hear them!

A 24" boot on that hydramaxx, sweet baby Jesus. My contractor in southeast Nebraska is the only other guy I've seen with the same machine. I've only needed 6-12" in terrace work. Even though you have a substantial cost to run across the neighbors, anyone seeing your farm in that overhead image can see it will be a good investment

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It is an impressive machine. They don't run a lot of 24" tile, but they do need to from time-to-time. I'd say about every full-time farm drainage outfit in this area has a big wheel trencher for running mains!

Thanks for your videos this was very interesting 👍 😊

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!

I agree, I also find it fascinating how things work....loved the video...Also if you could, show update on how much water comes out of this please 😁

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Will do!

Thank you. Interesting project. Good luck with the crops this year. My brother in law farms rice in Australia and always says farming is high stakes gambling as you have to make long term decisions with short term facts.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

That’s very true. It’s not quite as risky as it was years ago, but there is still so many things that can go wrong!

Very interesting to me. I' waiting to get 80 acres tiled in Sangamon County. Hopefully, before the crops are planted this spring. If not, early this fall.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

There’s always someone waiting on the tile guy to show up. That Sangamon County ground is probably world-class once you get it drained. Good luck!

Thankst for the video. If you ever get to Geneva, NY there is a field tile museum that might be interested in the progress seen here. Here in Ohio some years ago the boom on a trencher hit a power line that melted tires.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

That beast is amazing

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It can move a lot of soil...

Good looking dirt in places. It is an interesting process. Looks like a good idea. I say get out of the rain.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very enjoyable .

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

You are lucky to be removing water. In the Texas Panhandle area there are thousands of miles of tile. Millions of acres are irrigated. A good sprinkler system needs 4,000,000 gallons/day and 500 hp for just one sprinkler that is half mile long.

@aTrippyFarmer

7 ай бұрын

Different world!

Very nice, from a city-slicker!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

One of the best farming videos I have watched. Very informative look forward to seeing the effect it has - thanks

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Fascinating

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Amazing!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Really cool !!!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Awesome thanks 👍 very interesting as I work on a tile crew in central Wisconsin 😊😂

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

You’d know this stuff better than me!

Good way to lay drainage pipe 🤗

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

It was an awesome project to watch. Thanks for the comment!

Well, your comment at 39:50 oohhh do NOT underestimate the complete tosh I am prepared to watch!! 🙂 anything from art restoration, tool restoration to sucking out blocked house drains....I (and many others) will watch it..... 550K views cant be wrong. All hail the algorithm.

Really interesting

amazing people still lay lines without a tracer wire!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

You'd think they'd know better!

We use to dig foundation footings this way, fast and clean.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Too bad we can’t pipeline that water out west. In 2019 we received 16 inches of water over 6 days. The original farm took it no problem. 22 years of no till and cover crops, not one inch of tile. Not even a puddle. The newer ground, we were planting in June, and it’s tiled. I hope I never have to dig like that. We have 22 windmills and they put in a lot of subterranean infrastructure. The level of detail you give is amazing. VERY well done. I’m probably looking at different things than most. Love seeing those stalks and stubble. Chalk up another one for good neighbors.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

One of the biggest hurdles around here with the renewable energy projects is the excavation and destruction of previous drainage infrastructure... and the roads. I have mixed feelings about both wind and solar, but they sure do offer a lot of money for it. I'd happily send you some of our water. We got 3.5" last week. It hasn't stopped since September!

adding a simple wire on the pipe allows for a locator to be used. I would suspect the gas lines have such a feature. we use a simple sewer snake in a water line when under parking lots to add the metal antenna . a few hours of work saves a LOT of problems !

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Ultimately, it wasn’t a big issue-just caused some lost time and water!

Very interesting!!!!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

amazing! coming from coastal Massachusetts, I can't believe the amount of topsoil you have

@aTrippyFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Central Illinois is home to some of the best farmland in the world. We are very lucky to farm here.

I owned a drainage company.. LLC Sundance excavation and drainage... Yes always when you build consider drainage.. and a good foundation.. that is the key..

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

You're only as successful as your weakest link, and drainage was a major flaw on this farm!

What a drag I’ve had the same deal experience except it was electric omg

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Electric lines are probably easier to locate underground, but it would still stink to hit one. There are much worse things to hit than a water line!

Just found your channel, subscribed and sent a message, good luck on your growth

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub. I am glad to have you!

When you bring in the wonder wheel you wonder what it will hit. For you a fake a artesian well. On the railroad a bigger version is used and it eats switch machines and cables for breakfast. Good idea the put in a 6' pipe by me for storm drainage and it ovefilled and flodded the service road, next to the highway which cut off the drainage. They replaced that with a 9' by 9' storm drain which they are in phase two to connect the rest of the hill. Nice job and nice soil. Tichincally the trencher broke the hard pan and rototated the soil. So maybee better yields for your neighbors and you.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Those trenchers can cause a lot of damage if things aren't scouted properly... I have heard of a tile plow causing a yield-bump from the deep rip, but I have not heard the same of a trencher. Thanks for the comment!

Thank Ole Joe for the increases!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

You got it!

you people with your things!

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Things!

"financial journey" is a very professional way of saying "im about to haemorrhage money start to finish". also im not going mad am i? that bucket was on the wrong way round and in the next clip was right. lol

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

You aren't crazy... editing can make things look weird! It is a hemorrhage upfront, but it will be profitable within the first 5 years, if I had to guess...

I unironically just came from watching a video about how the Underdeveloped parts of the world that have been historically too dry (and getting worse with the weather patterns) to support agriculture and then this came up as my first reccommended video for getting rid of it haha

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

A tale of two worlds. The fertile American prairie is home to soil that tends to remain swampy, especially with its naturally wet climate. We grow great crops, but the regular rains can cause ponding issues.

that 24 inch stuff is quality pipe last a long time some of our large double walled pipe is 22 years old and still good and round unlike the 4 and 6 inch pipe that collapses over time

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so! These pipes are built extremely sturdy. Thanks for sharing!

I loved it

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Send that water to Oklahoma we need it. Good video

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I wish that I could!

When ya hit a water line while tiling a field, ah life.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda ironic!

A 12 month breakeven is not impossible with future contract prices. Best of luck.

Hi Andy here’s one for you up here in southwest Michigan I know of a farmer that tiled his farm with a round point shovel or probably several I don’t know the amount of feet of tile but can you imagine.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of this old tile was laid that way... what back-breaking work!

@jamesdavis3542

2 жыл бұрын

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It seems like it would be easy for the trencher to have a hydraulic tilt feature to load the pipes. Then the skid steer could bring them over and they wouldn't have to lifted in by hand from there.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there is probably something that you could rig up. Regardless, you still need someone in the boot watching the connections as they go. Thanks for the comment!

Freaking awesome machine, I find it cool that the water will be crystal clear coming out of those pipe 💪🇺🇸 thanks for sharing

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Well the crystal clear water at the start was from an actual water line that they hit. That water is drinking quality. The field drainage will probably be good quality once the dirt is settled in place from the entire project!

@derrickpettit3489

2 жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer oh ok cool how it filter's it so well

Pipeline companies have been doing this for years!

@aTrippyFarmer

3 ай бұрын

I always thought that they used an excavator to dig those. Our pipelines ran through this area long before I was born!

It's always either too wet or too dry to farm optimally.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Perfection is fleeting

Vero interesting! How did the farmers in the past install the clay drain tile? Those things look really heavy.

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

A large majority of clay tile was installed by hand decades ago. It makes me sore just thinking about some of the heavy labor that was involved in all of these farms. There are some exceptions, but most of the old clays are nearing the end of their lifespan. They are all either crushed, collapsed, bowing, or full of dirt.

So much water wow is this from the snow?

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Nope it just handles the water from huge rainfall events. It’s not uncommon anymore for us to get over 4” of rain in less than 24 hours. Snow melt is not an issue here because we are too south to accumulate large amounts of snow.

@albertod4161

2 жыл бұрын

@@aTrippyFarmer thats interesting still im located in California I believe we're going to be dry as a bone this summer

@aTrippyFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

@@albertod4161 I’ve heard the west coast is pretty dry. You guys need all of the rain that you can get!