Thanks for hanging in there this season, put in 15,000 feet of tile this spring. In our area it works really well and brings acres into production that I'm paying rent on. The dry dams get water under ground in plastic which helps on soil erosion and now can farm these grass waterways we are also paying rent on. FYI: In USA rice is actually planted in dry dirt like corn then flooded for weed control, this field is to wet to even plant rice!!
You are so right Farmer Chris, field tile can transform swamp land into crop growable area if you can get there ft down and even the slightest slope for runoff. I think the only time that field will run water now is if that creek rises above the tile lines. Fantastic results.👌🤙
Farmers are usually good business people and you could teach a class!. How to get maximum productivity out of every square inch available to you! You've got a plan and a timetable. Rule number one in business: have a plan and control what you can with that plan because there are a lot of variables that you can't comtrol. Always like watching a DP viseo where you're involved.
Here in southern Ontario our municipalities maintain our drainage ditch’s and almost every field is systematically tiled at 25 to 30 centres. This allow the farmers to plant earlier and have set in better condition giving significant yield increases and lower machinery repair costs. Normally the exposed end of our drains are a rigid pipe with gate to prevent wildlife from entering and plugging the tile
That field was good for two things. Planting rice and getting stuck. It's crazy the amount of water coming through the tile even before it's back filled. It's incredible how that tile works. I love the new dozer, and can't wait to see Jerry give it a good workout. Have a blessed and safe week.
Tile is a farmers best friend. I've got field that was unfarmable because of it being so wet all the time tiled it now it's one of best fields. It has very 91% fertility rate an 89 scr's% scores all because of tile
Middle ‘70’s we were putting in 100 acres of dry wheat in virgin ground. High school FFA. We had a D2 cat with tow behind single tooth ripper. Called AT&T for location services. Guy came out to locate cable with 30 year old site map but no magic wand. He flagged the “location “. We did an additional 30’ offset. Dozer bogged down to expose a load of colored spaghetti. Blew out a 1500 pair trans-continental cable. 10’ on the diagonal. AT&T guy had to find a new job. 48 hour shutdown and they brought in a whole “city “ to fix it.
Yes natural pathic One was supposed to be about 30 feet away. They found it 5 feet away with the dozer. Had they hit it well we had Bible school going on. Thankfully no national news.
Drainage tiles work. I put one in a field 3 weeks before mother's day. It finally stopped trickling 2 weeks ago and the surface of the field is dry as a bone and usable space. Job well done, y'all be safe.
LOL. " I feel like I'm working for the state now." "That's why I'm holding onto this shovel." I have a friend that worked for VDOT here in Virginia. A worked called his supervisor on the radio and said he had broken his shovel handle and ask what to do. The supervisor told him "Just lean on another worker until we get you another shovel." The district manager sent the supervisor home for one day. Great job.
What the hell?!?! I never would have believed it myself. Oh and of course Jerry is amazing. Thank you Michael for an informative, educational, fantastic video! Farmer Chris is lucky to have you as a friend and contractor.
I have been dealing with that wett sob all my life. Thanks farmer chis for taking this field on and thanks dirt perfect for a hell of a job. Believe it or not we used to cut hay off that field 60 years ago.
To protect against pipe crush damage from a flat surfaced ditch, i have made cutting edge attachments that mount over the teeth on the bucket with a upside down tombstone shape with the round radius matching the size tile you are installing, this insures that the tile sits in a round bottom and gives a much higher crush strength.
Im supposing the tile has holes in it. I couldn't see very well. I love the teamwork on the big dam. Always good to see 2 operators work together. LD18 says slick it up. A must!
Finally! THANK YOU! I have watched a whole bunch of farming videos and a lot of them talk about tiling. Lots of tiling. What the hell is tiling? I've had my bathroom tiled but never used any big machinery! So what's going on with all this big equipment and not a slab of tile? You have now explained what it is, why you need it, AND HOW IT WORKS WITH GETTING THE WATER OFF THE FIELD. I never would have figured it out. Thank you.
Dirt perfect the miracle worker. Yes I could see how in clay ground the puller would smoosh the ground sealing it off. Would like to see this field in a couple weeks showing instant improvement.
I cant believe how much untiled ground there. Up here in Putnam county my dad had the old buckeye putting in clay tile in starting in the early 70s. One system has 3 farms all tied into a string under 2 roads to the creek. Back then the state penal farm at Putnamville had a tile plant.
When my kids started in the local Little League, (closer to you now than me), the field was taken over for a year so they could lay drainage tile much like you just did. That field after they finished putting it back together, drained very quickly... O, you go out to put up/take down the flag you better take a boat.. but inside the fence... dry as can be.. you could actually watch the puddles on the infield go down. We hosted a tournament 3 years later and I commented that it will be dry by noon (game was scheduled for 9am but mother nature rained on that)... while talking with the coaches who thought we were nuts... even they noticed that you could actually watch it go down...the game was played on a dry field at noon... I've seen what tile can do and it can be amazing...
Need to definitely do a after video on this so people can see how much it works.. we had a file like this and tried a tile plow and sunk the machine costed $6k all together to get it out it sunk 5ft deep in the muck and because we couldn’t get it out for 5 days it locked the machine in. I personally think he would have had big problems with a plow. I learnt my lesson on a plow and wet wet fields with setting water. Good job and great video showing how putting tile in will actually make land profitable and raise its value. Big thumbs up
here in Northern Ireland around where in live it would be a waste time putting those drains so far apart, the field would have to be covered in pipes about twenty feet apart and surrounded with clean stones the ground is made up with peat in the wet areas, which is large areas
I love the music you choose. Great field work well done. I knew it would work, because we owned 40 acres of pasture that salty ground water was welling up. There was also a large deep drain ditch that we ceramic tiled to gain several acres of farm land. Glad to see Farmer Chris fields ready to make a profit & recovering expenses.
Good morning DP and the whole crew. Thanks for another interesting and early video. Caption sounds great. Let's have some fun. Jamaica in the house 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🙏
It's crazy to me the difference in farming, in the west we would be elated to have water just comming out of the ground. Problem around here is hoping you have enough irrigation to water everything all year
Farmer Chris is lucky to have essentially private tile and he's not in competition to move water with other farms in a drainage district. Tile is great. You just don't want to be the guy down hill and down stream from your neighbors during heavy rain events.Great job!
We still get that here!!, the creek we drained in to will jump out and go thru field in heavy rains, we are also close enough to the river that back water comes in field in winter and early spring
"It's Incredible"! - WHY - because something you did worked (beyond expectations?) HINT: That's why you've been digging and planting all the tiles. SO, bottom line, FUNCTIONAL & LOOKS GOOD! Thanks much for the great explanation of below ground water workings! Win - Win for everybody! Sonny
amazing how much water you all have - amazing how much flows out of those tiles. if farmer chris is planting tonite - does he come in with a disc harrow and clear the grass etc first? question answered.
in the words of Dirt Perfect, the commercials run non-stop, absolutely non-stop! Banner ads, commercials, pre-commercials - NON-STOP!!!, absolutely non-stop!!!
Rain stopped play again...... impressive how the field dried out !!! Like the new upgrades and paint job on the 850 too !!! 🤣😎 Did you fit air con too ??? 🤔😉
1 or the last few jobs that i had with my Takeuchi was to install about 2 miles of field tile in a hay field for a local farm. It originally had clay tile pipe as field tile.4 foot long sections that had holes in 3 sides. I came across the clay tiles while digging. Farmer told me that his father put those in when he was a kid. dug the ditches by hand. all of those were packed with sediment.
These plastic tiles will also eventually be packed with sediment because no "sock" was on them. People who lay these tiles without a "cloth" covering know it will be a couple of decades before they fail. It's no different than contractors who build houses, by the time the house settles and all of the half-assed work begins to appear, it will be years and the buyer will have zero recourse. I remove honeybees from structures, and it's simply amazing how shoddy the workmanship of new homes is. Many of these houses are poorly insulated which allows honeybees to build hives in the walls. A little trim and paint camouflages most imperfections from view; but not from a bee!
@@DirtPerfect - Not the "sorry"???? I'm a biologist and a farmer, and I'm well versed in soil hydrography. Before you claim I don't understand how it works, maybe you should take a few classes!
Thank god your done with drainage!! My skin is awfully dry now😂 We need to talk about tack time on putting out a video, 53 days, holy cow, let’s tighten it up Mike, if you can tighten up the coupler with MBTS, then MBTS can help tighten up video production time 😂 Great job Mike, you can see how happy Farmer Chris is with DP on the job. He can always depend on you to get it done👍🇺🇸
Put a shutoff on the end of the pipes so you can drain the water to plant and close it back off to keep some of the water in the ground and kinda regulate the groundwater
OK Mikey that does it.... You are officially a Mud Whisperer! I think you should take that show on the road. I have a neighbor who has a pond that won't hold water, 4 acres above it that never dry out and a spring just below it that never stops seeping to the surface (coincidence?) I told him we ought to move the pond to the ditch below the spring using the clay pond dam. Then put tile through the swampy mess into the pond. He told me it would be too expensive to do that. This spring a cow tried to walk through the swamp to get, to the brush on the other side, so she could have her calf. She never made it and he lost the cow and calf. As a result, he fenced off 10 acres of his 20 acre pasture. Then, he had to rent another pasture to graze his cows this year. He is looking for a Mud Whisperer even as we speak! Nice job dealing with the swamp!
As long as it has somewhere to drain out to or in some cases around here, a place it can be pumped out from the tile will intercept the spring and cut it off.
Years ago, farmers drained wetlands. Now, conservation whether bought or worked with farmers restoring wetlands for wildlife purpose esp. birds. Curious if that piece land considered wetland?? Liked that tile feeding water to creek for fishes or replenish water elsewhere.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but if this field was regularly plowed for years that farmer may have created this drainage problem, generally when plowing a field they will cast the material towards the outside of the field, shifting all the topsoil by 16-18" every year, this can result in a flat field taking on a bowl shape that will no longer drain properly.
I've been on a farm all of 68 years and never heard of a real farmer plowing it the same direction every year. Besides that, moldboard plowing pretty much went to the antique shows 40 years ago. Not many ever chisel plow any more in the my area.
@@bluegrallis what part of the country are you in? What type of soil? I'm between Wichita and Dodge city and around here I still see big farmers moldboard plowing, chisel plowing and some no till, I have one field on the east side of my driveway that's 100 yards wide by 1/4 mile long, theoretically it should have been contour plowed, or at least switched up, the reality is that it would have been plowed on the long axis every year, and they didn't have turn over plows then, mostly trip plows, so for 50 years or more it would have been plowed in a similar pattern.
@@russellsmith3825 Nobody in their right mind EVER plowed a field the same way years in a row. If you plow out the first year, you have a dead furrow in the middle. The next year, you start with a back furrow in the middle and plow it in. I'm in NW Illinois. Maybe one out of 30 farmers still use a 'bottom' plow and that's only on flat bottom ground where it doesn't wash, and is full of gumbo.
Thanks for hanging in there this season, put in 15,000 feet of tile this spring. In our area it works really well and brings acres into production that I'm paying rent on. The dry dams get water under ground in plastic which helps on soil erosion and now can farm these grass waterways we are also paying rent on. FYI: In USA rice is actually planted in dry dirt like corn then flooded for weed control, this field is to wet to even plant rice!!
A guy would have to plant rice like they do in SE Asia. Barefoot and one plant at a time, by hand.
DP is lucky to have a customer and friend like you Farmer Chris… and I think he knows it
You are so right Farmer Chris, field tile can transform swamp land into crop growable area if you can get there ft down and even the slightest slope for runoff. I think the only time that field will run water now is if that creek rises above the tile lines. Fantastic results.👌🤙
Farmers are usually good business people and you could teach a class!. How to get maximum productivity out of every square inch available to you! You've got a plan and a timetable. Rule number one in business: have a plan and control what you can with that plan because there are a lot of variables that you can't comtrol. Always like watching a DP viseo where you're involved.
This almost looks like a swamp buster situation...hope you did your AD1026 haha
That's what makes the difference on this channel...... Mike takes the time to explain to us non dirt movers ,how, what, why he's doing what he's doing
Thanks
Here in southern Ontario our municipalities maintain our drainage ditch’s and almost every field is systematically tiled at 25 to 30 centres. This allow the farmers to plant earlier and have set in better condition giving significant yield increases and lower machinery repair costs. Normally the exposed end of our drains are a rigid pipe with gate to prevent wildlife from entering and plugging the tile
That field was good for two things. Planting rice and getting stuck. It's crazy the amount of water coming through the tile even before it's back filled. It's incredible how that tile works. I love the new dozer, and can't wait to see Jerry give it a good workout. Have a blessed and safe week.
Tile is a farmers best friend. I've got field that was unfarmable because of it being so wet all the time tiled it now it's one of best fields. It has very 91% fertility rate an 89 scr's% scores all because of tile
Here in Western new York most farmers installed tile.Its impressive how much it improves not just that field but the entire area around it.
Middle ‘70’s we were putting in 100 acres of dry wheat in virgin ground. High school FFA. We had a D2 cat with tow behind single tooth ripper. Called AT&T for location services. Guy came out to locate cable with 30 year old site map but no magic wand. He flagged the “location “. We did an additional 30’ offset. Dozer bogged down to expose a load of colored spaghetti. Blew out a 1500 pair trans-continental cable. 10’ on the diagonal. AT&T guy had to find a new job. 48 hour shutdown and they brought in a whole “city “ to fix it.
And YOU exposed it cuz you did the right thing in calling them. Glad it wasn't the GAS company!
Yes natural pathic One was supposed to be about 30 feet away. They found it 5 feet away with the dozer. Had they hit it well we had Bible school going on. Thankfully no national news.
that makes total sence about the ground water and it turned out great. thanks for bringing us along. cheers mate.
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Drainage tiles work. I put one in a field 3 weeks before mother's day. It finally stopped trickling 2 weeks ago and the surface of the field is dry as a bone and usable space. Job well done, y'all be safe.
Amazing how quickly that field drained. Nice job!
Crazy
Well done on explaining the difference of tile with and without stone. Can't wait to see videos on the 850.
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And just like that...D.P. turned Farmer Chris's "fish farm" back into a field... Amazing!!
I'm impressed with the pipe.i would have never thought you'd get that much water.this might come in handy, thanks
Great looking project. I’m sure Farmer Chris is happy.
LOL. " I feel like I'm working for the state now." "That's why I'm holding onto this shovel."
I have a friend that worked for VDOT here in Virginia. A worked called his supervisor on the radio and said he had broken his shovel handle and ask what to do. The supervisor told him "Just lean on another worker until we get you another shovel." The district manager sent the supervisor home for one day.
Great job.
I gotta quit sniffing glue. I was seeing double around the 6:00 mark. Two farmer Chris'!!
Lol
I watch a lot of different videos,but I enjoy your videos most.
The D4 is a versatile machine, people would be surprised how much you can do with a dozer that size. Best of luck with your additions to the fleet
Imagine if it was a LGP (low ground pressure) setup
What the hell?!?! I never would have believed it myself. Oh and of course Jerry is amazing. Thank you Michael for an informative, educational, fantastic video! Farmer Chris is lucky to have you as a friend and contractor.
Thanks Tom
I have been dealing with that wett sob all my life. Thanks farmer chis for taking this field on and thanks dirt perfect for a hell of a job. Believe it or not we used to cut hay off that field 60 years ago.
Glade it’s working out for both of you thanks for having us
To protect against pipe crush damage from a flat surfaced ditch, i have made cutting edge attachments that mount over the teeth on the bucket with a upside down tombstone shape with the round radius matching the size tile you are installing, this insures that the tile sits in a round bottom and gives a much higher crush strength.
Talk about art with a shovel & machines. My hat is off to you !!!
Im supposing the tile has holes in it. I couldn't see very well. I love the teamwork on the big dam. Always good to see 2 operators work together. LD18 says slick it up. A must!
27:34 for those that want to skip to the before/after difference. Nice work!
Awesome throwback video!
Good to see Jerry!
Finally! THANK YOU!
I have watched a whole bunch of farming videos and a lot of them talk about tiling. Lots of tiling. What the hell is tiling?
I've had my bathroom tiled but never used any big machinery! So what's going on with all this big equipment and not a slab of tile?
You have now explained what it is, why you need it, AND HOW IT WORKS WITH GETTING THE WATER OFF THE FIELD.
I never would have figured it out. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Checking out some earlier videos bro and this caught my eye and enjoyed it too. Safe travels
Im so happy Jerry is talking more!
Me to
Well, that is impressive. I'd never have thought that those little pipes would drain that mess that fast.
A 4" corrugated pipe will move 150 gallons a minute so a 6 and 8 inch pipe will move a lot more
Dirt perfect the miracle worker. Yes I could see how in clay ground the puller would smoosh the ground sealing it off. Would like to see this field in a couple weeks showing instant improvement.
Great job by all Thanks for sharing Mike 👍 👏
Thanks
Good solution. See you on the next job!
Watching this I can see why you put all the effort into building the tile plough
Thanks for the great video Mike!
good results to be proud of Chris is fortunate to have your talent working his fields
I cant believe how much untiled ground there. Up here in Putnam county my dad had the old buckeye putting in clay tile in starting in the early 70s. One system has 3 farms all tied into a string under 2 roads to the creek. Back then the state penal farm at Putnamville had a tile plant.
Nice job mike I could see fine through your window and I think your d4g is a perfect little dozer 👍👍 thanks for the video buddy
Thanks
Makes a big difference. Looks good.
Around Northern Illinois we run fiber cable in colored flex conduit. It makes it easier to locate and offers some protection.
When my kids started in the local Little League, (closer to you now than me), the field was taken over for a year so they could lay drainage tile much like you just did. That field after they finished putting it back together, drained very quickly... O, you go out to put up/take down the flag you better take a boat.. but inside the fence... dry as can be.. you could actually watch the puddles on the infield go down. We hosted a tournament 3 years later and I commented that it will be dry by noon (game was scheduled for 9am but mother nature rained on that)... while talking with the coaches who thought we were nuts... even they noticed that you could actually watch it go down...the game was played on a dry field at noon... I've seen what tile can do and it can be amazing...
Looks like a Great place for a new pond
Enjoy your Sunday! Thanks for the video! New dozer looks great!
Thanks
Great way to show how field tile works.
another great job Dirt Perfect im amazed how well it worked well done
Need to definitely do a after video on this so people can see how much it works.. we had a file like this and tried a tile plow and sunk the machine costed $6k all together to get it out it sunk 5ft deep in the muck and because we couldn’t get it out for 5 days it locked the machine in. I personally think he would have had big problems with a plow. I learnt my lesson on a plow and wet wet fields with setting water. Good job and great video showing how putting tile in will actually make land profitable and raise its value. Big thumbs up
Chris just harvested yield up over 100 bushel a acre
I don't know for sure that the field didn't hear that Jerry was coming and decided to dry out from fear. Good job with that tile.
Would love to see some follow up on some jobs, 6 month a year later on how the field is doing or the finished ponds.
Video is posted this job is included just check it out Called looking back
I have hunted and hunted and hunted for this video, and finally found what I do believe is the outlet we saw on the river. Have a great day. DP
I love work! i can watch someone else do it all day long !
here in Northern Ireland around where in live it would be a waste time putting those drains so far apart, the field would have to be covered in pipes about twenty feet apart and surrounded with clean stones the ground is made up with peat in the wet areas, which is large areas
You learn something new everyday.. good job
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Great job @dirtperfect you saved the farmer’s livelihood!
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Thanks Mike for another great video, God Bless and stay safe!❤️🙏🇺🇸
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Your shop skills have improved considerably!!!!
Made me a believer and also a possibility of something new my company can do
Thanks Mike👍
Drain tiles are essential in wet areas and are well worth the investment!
I love the music you choose. Great field work well done. I knew it would work, because we owned 40 acres of pasture that salty ground water was welling up. There was also a large deep drain ditch that we ceramic tiled to gain several acres of farm land. Glad to see Farmer Chris fields ready to make a profit & recovering expenses.
Thanks
Mike great video, Jerry is amazing, Farmer Chris seems like an awesome friend! Thanks for sharing. Kevin
Thanks for watching
Great video Mike. That pipe is so amazing.
Thanks
When they put fiberoptic lines in my (existing) neighborhood, they installed a green pipe that was on a spool then put the cable through it.
Yup you’re in town
Good morning DP and the whole crew. Thanks for another interesting and early video. Caption sounds great. Let's have some fun. Jamaica in the house 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🙏
Thanks buddy
Amazing how great the drainage pips work!
That is why when We put cable in the ground the spool center is horizontal and parallel to the ground
from the Netherlands thanks for the video DP
It's crazy to me the difference in farming, in the west we would be elated to have water just comming out of the ground. Problem around here is hoping you have enough irrigation to water everything all year
Farmers in Arkansas would love this ground for Rice Fields
Farmer Chris is lucky to have essentially private tile and he's not in competition to move water with other farms in a drainage district. Tile is great. You just don't want to be the guy down hill and down stream from your neighbors during heavy rain events.Great job!
We still get that here!!, the creek we drained in to will jump out and go thru field in heavy rains, we are also close enough to the river that back water comes in field in winter and early spring
As always. lol.. Nice work guy's!!.. How was the Sprint car show??
Thanks
"It's Incredible"! - WHY - because something you did worked (beyond expectations?) HINT: That's why you've been digging and planting all the tiles. SO, bottom line, FUNCTIONAL & LOOKS GOOD! Thanks much for the great explanation of below ground water workings! Win - Win for everybody! Sonny
Thanks buddy
Thanks for the video, looks like a Frankenstein machine build to me, should be interesting for sure.
Top job works perfect iv a question would it work in reverse to add water in times of drought
Jerry is an artist. He paints with a dozer blade instead of a paint brush. Thank you for some great entertainment.
Yes he is
amazing how much water you all have - amazing how much flows out of those tiles. if farmer chris is planting tonite - does he come in with a disc harrow and clear the grass etc first? question answered.
Yes
Good field to plant rice in!!
Great video, Thanks for explaining, I was curious on how that worked.
No problem 👍
in the words of Dirt Perfect, the commercials run non-stop, absolutely non-stop! Banner ads, commercials, pre-commercials - NON-STOP!!!, absolutely non-stop!!!
Way to fix that is in your control not mine sorry
Rain stopped play again...... impressive how the field dried out !!!
Like the new upgrades and paint job on the 850 too !!! 🤣😎
Did you fit air con too ??? 🤔😉
Great job on that field. Really dried out quickly. 850 looking good.
Yes, thanks
Nice results guys, thanks for the videos DP
Thanks for watching!
One of my college lecturers always said, "Use the tool most appropriate for the job!" :-)
I love that new 850 dozer 😎. I bet Jerry loves it too ......
Like always awesome work DP
Thanks
LUV the ODG Eight Fifity 👏🏽👍🏼☺️
Ha great job on that field can't wait to see the upgrade on the 850 J
1 or the last few jobs that i had with my Takeuchi was to install about 2 miles of field tile in a hay field for a local farm. It originally had clay tile pipe as field tile.4 foot long sections that had holes in 3 sides. I came across the clay tiles while digging. Farmer told me that his father put those in when he was a kid. dug the ditches by hand. all of those were packed with sediment.
These plastic tiles will also eventually be packed with sediment because no "sock" was on them. People who lay these tiles without a "cloth" covering know it will be a couple of decades before they fail. It's no different than contractors who build houses, by the time the house settles and all of the half-assed work begins to appear, it will be years and the buyer will have zero recourse.
I remove honeybees from structures, and it's simply amazing how shoddy the workmanship of new homes is. Many of these houses are poorly insulated which allows honeybees to build hives in the walls. A little trim and paint camouflages most imperfections from view; but not from a bee!
That’s completely not the sorry you don’t understand how it works
@@DirtPerfect - Not the "sorry"???? I'm a biologist and a farmer, and I'm well versed in soil hydrography. Before you claim I don't understand how it works, maybe you should take a few classes!
@@Rattlerjake1 love guys like you book is bible right thanks for the input
Thank god your done with drainage!! My skin is awfully dry now😂 We need to talk about tack time on putting out a video, 53 days, holy cow, let’s tighten it up Mike, if you can tighten up the coupler with MBTS, then MBTS can help tighten up video production time 😂 Great job Mike, you can see how happy Farmer Chris is with DP on the job. He can always depend on you to get it done👍🇺🇸
Put a shutoff on the end of the pipes so you can drain the water to plant and close it back off to keep some of the water in the ground and kinda regulate the groundwater
No we need it all gone at all times
Like see field when he start planting. That would highlight y'all work
Have some video coming
Nice work! Kinda dig'in the new paint on the 850, what kind of upgrades did it get? Looks great.
Stay tuned more coming next video
That is a alsome job well done
OK Mikey that does it.... You are officially a Mud Whisperer! I think you should take that show on the road.
I have a neighbor who has a pond that won't hold water, 4 acres above it that never dry out and a spring just below it that never stops seeping to the surface (coincidence?) I told him we ought to move the pond to the ditch below the spring using the clay pond dam. Then put tile through the swampy mess into the pond.
He told me it would be too expensive to do that. This spring a cow tried to walk through the swamp to get, to the brush on the other side, so she could have her calf. She never made it and he lost the cow and calf. As a result, he fenced off 10 acres of his 20 acre pasture. Then, he had to rent another pasture to graze his cows this year.
He is looking for a Mud Whisperer even as we speak!
Nice job dealing with the swamp!
Great explanation nice Job
👍👍👍👍🚜 looks good God bless🙏
Wow, that's amazing.
Great video! Do you use.perforated pipe?
Yes
Awesome work Mike
I wonder how the tile will work on flat land with a underground spring in east texas?
As long as it has somewhere to drain out to or in some cases around here, a place it can be pumped out from the tile will intercept the spring and cut it off.
Yup
Thanks mbts
Years ago, farmers drained wetlands. Now, conservation whether bought or worked with farmers restoring wetlands for wildlife purpose esp. birds. Curious if that piece land considered wetland??
Liked that tile feeding water to creek for fishes or replenish water elsewhere.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but if this field was regularly plowed for years that farmer may have created this drainage problem, generally when plowing a field they will cast the material towards the outside of the field, shifting all the topsoil by 16-18" every year, this can result in a flat field taking on a bowl shape that will no longer drain properly.
I've been on a farm all of 68 years and never heard of a real farmer plowing it the same direction every year. Besides that, moldboard plowing pretty much went to the antique shows 40 years ago. Not many ever chisel plow any more in the my area.
@@bluegrallis what part of the country are you in?
What type of soil?
I'm between Wichita and Dodge city and around here I still see big farmers moldboard plowing, chisel plowing and some no till,
I have one field on the east side of my driveway that's 100 yards wide by 1/4 mile long, theoretically it should have been contour plowed, or at least switched up, the reality is that it would have been plowed on the long axis every year, and they didn't have turn over plows then, mostly trip plows, so for 50 years or more it would have been plowed in a similar pattern.
@@russellsmith3825 Nobody in their right mind EVER plowed a field the same way years in a row. If you plow out the first year, you have a dead furrow in the middle. The next year, you start with a back furrow in the middle and plow it in.
I'm in NW Illinois. Maybe one out of 30 farmers still use a 'bottom' plow and that's only on flat bottom ground where it doesn't wash, and is full of gumbo.