I Flooded The Farm Before Planting | Farming From Scratch
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- I drove up Grants 8110 and 12 row planter in hopes of planting the following day. There was a slight chance of rain in the forecast, but thought I could get it in the next morning. We ended up getting 4-5” of rain over the next 8 days and discovered that the 8” clay tile was clogged with tree roots and backed up.
A couple days before the rain and driving up the tractor I had patched the clay tile that was broken. It had created a sinkhole over the years. In hindsight that sinkhole was serving a purpose… It was downhill from where the clogged section was. During heavy rains water would back up then run on the surface of the water way, and then drop back into the sink hole. This would prevent surface water from flooding the field.
Once I patched the sinkhole and filled it in that water from the tile had no way to get to the creek and flooded the field. So we ended up finding and replacing the clogged section from tree roots. Everything worked out in the end and realistically only delayed planting by a few days extra.
Hope you enjoy the video let me know what I could have done differently as I am new to farming and have lots to learn.
@granthilbert5632
When I see you two boys working together I feel a warm feeling in my heart. Both of you will live long prosperous lives working together.
one thing about these Hilbert bros: definitely not afraid of hard work! great job patching together a vintage drain tile system and getting it flowing in time for planting
The explanation of what and how the field tiles work was fantastic.
Thanks!
Spencer, the transformation on this piece of land is nothing short of remarkable. Sure glad you found and fixed this issue before planting. Now lets get some seed in the ground and be on our way to all this hard work paying off. Great job buddy Gods Speed
That excavator sure is paying off. Glad it continues to do the job for you.
I really enjoy watching your channel and your brother’s channel! You guys explain everything very well and your videos are very enjoyable. Thanks!
Seeing all these machines he have to use and all the work that has to be done on the land, you really realize how capital-intensive modern farming is.
It would be interesting to see the yield in the repaired area after you backfilled with the creek soil.
it would be cool if he sprinkled a ton of earthworm eggs everywhere and see what happens
Nice straight roads out in those parts. I can't imagine driving 90 miles in a tractor anywhere near where I'm from in VA
Spencer I liked the narration at the start of the video.
That was my idea for him to add a bit of voice overs. It’s so awesome when he does it
You’ll get so much farther in life as a family you can stick together. Good to see your brother is working with brothers you guys really put in some work exciting to see what’s going to happen.
Here in the UK 🇬🇧 we farm beef on limestone riddled land,,you only have to dig maybe 4-6 inches down and hit stone/rock,,but it is very free flowing,,meaning it doesn't hold water,,and in winter we have a lot of rain...Liked this video. 💯👍💯👍💯
Interesting!
very proud of both you for your hard work an dedication to grow America ........... you make America great with warm fuzzy feel good secure feelins ..........
Iconic moments for me in this video 9:46. Totally unexpected. From grant but hilarious 10:58 and 7:11 you both hitting high notes let’s me know your practicing you sound magnificent by the way Im a emotional wreck soo good but way to short Love it 😂 12:42 spectacular Spencer’s Kung fu kick. Best vlog yet. Love the farm series always a adventure.
Nice that you have your own equipment so you can do the repairs yourself.
Find a four or six row planter to plant that. You can pull it with a truck and your 4020 would work quite well with it. It's only 50 acres. I always wrapped thos transitions with roll roofing and covered with pea gravel. I've never had a problem in 45 years. Keep it up, looks good.
Best regards from Indiana.
I was thinking about doing that this spring. Would be handy to have in the future too if I needed to plant further away. In a time crunch and thought just driving up the tractor and having the technology would be worth it. Also having a peace of mind knowing everything was done correctly with our planter. Thanks for the comment!
I get it, you know that one works. A good old 7000 Deere 4,6,or even 8 row could be had pretty inexpensively and they're not hard to maintain. Anyway, have fun and good luck. I retired three years ago, nice to see someone starting out. I'll be watching.
Breather tubes every so often eliminates the vacuum on the long runs of tile. Vacuum sucks dirt in every little Crack and crevice. Great work and good job explaining to the non-ag people!
@@Mr-er6fg interesting i haven’t heard of breather tubes before. I didn’t know that pressure would build enough to do that. What do they look like? Do you mean a hickenbottom? The orange things sticking up? I am new to all this idk I would call myself an ag-person. Appreciate the comment
@@spencerhilbert probably like a vent tube in a building plumbing line. you could also tell if you had another blockage by the water being forced up the vent tube.
Insane amount of work to get old fields going again. But its sooo worth the hard work!
Nice job guys!!! I feel your tile pain!!! Especially not knowing where any tile is, always a mystery it seems!!
Chase a water leak is never fun. Last one we had was about 57,000 gallons into leaking when I found it w/ the front tire of the tractor. that was an exciting nose wheelie!
That's a helluva brother letting you run his tractor that long and far! Thats is incredibly hard on very expensive tires!
I'm glad I found this channel. Very entertaining. Great job.
Glad you enjoy it!
I couldn't imagine driving a tractor four hours to get to your fields😂
Lord have mercy we farm Illinois and in Indiana an hour is long enough 4 hours I better be gettin paid double
Grant mentioned in one of his videos they would like to buy more ground closer to home
@@brandonm6052 fingers crossed it turns out well
Even with a 60k tractor theres no way I would drive 90 miles!
@@tdolan500for me that’s 2 trips to Chicago and back
Fantastic video great editing. I always wondered why it was called feild tile make so much sense thanks for sharing your talents and adventures!!
Great to see brother working well together
That much rain right now tri-state area Illinois Missouri Iowa would be awesome! Heck we would be happy with one or 2 inches right now.
Not looking good for crops hay and pastures
This was recorded in early May in Central Iowa. Only gotten 2” after planting on May 20th.
Love your videos Keep up the great work
Love what you two have achieved! Congrats!
Good job boys, awesone
Drain tile will clog with silt after a while. If you wrap it with a filter, it will last longer with less problems. like a geotextile is often used, but is expensive. I use awning material. It is much cheaper (where I live), and is UV stabilized polypropylene material, so it will last. It creates a flexiable gap to keep the silt out of the main tube, and in theory will handle roots better. I would have just trenched a new line, and put in a new tile. not even bothering to mess with that old tile.
Yeah I see what your saying and have heard of backfilling with a thin layer of gravel. Not sure where you are located, this is in central Iowa. This tile has good slope and flows a lot being it’s a 8”. Didn’t find much silt in the few spots we broke into.
Yeah I was debating not messing with it and just going back to the way it originally was. But it had made such a mess already and I wanted to figure out why it was clogged. This fall I may pull a new one in, but there is a chance I don’t do anything so I wanted it done completely. We were rained out for 10 days and had the equipment to do it. Thanks for the comment.
What’s better than one Hilbert farming?Two Hilberts farming! Lovin the vids, good luck with the season!
Thanks, you too!
@@spencerhilbert appreciate it!
4:30 did you see that mouse there on the clay pipe
glad to see you guys got the field to stop flooding and hopefully it will dry up fast. btw good vids keep up the great work.
ahh my dreams driving a tractor and specially a combin
You are definitely earning it on this project
Just watched your last video YT recommended and this one popped up right after. Good Stuff
Harvest 2023 will be our 10th year of driving combine and tractors 80 miles between our two farm headquarters. Only had one major breakdown in that time. It can be done and gets easier as equipment gets more sophisticated
That’s good to hear. Not sure exactly sure what harvest will look like. Might have it custom done we will see. Or drive combine up.
Farm boys hard at work!! I remember Mike the fit farmer said that true farmers are stronger then gym rats.
We have that exact same field cultivator on our farm in Michigan!
Cool just rented it this spring. Worked great in soybean stubble.
I know how much it takes to transform a land to tillable land,, I am workin alone on 55 acrs in Michigan and like to exchange our experience, however I have no brother to lent me his equipment so, I had to buy some, and since I has no mechanical experience, I had to buy new stuff, like a tracor. good luck with your farm.
hearing grant swear is outlandish 😭
What a great morning to see your video. Your last video was so amazing. today is a great Saturday. Have a nice weekend. Nice job here. Love the channel please keep going. 😊
great video Spencer 👍
Farm vlogs always fun to watch
Those water systems must be a big show stopper and a pain
The field is looking great!
Wow, did not know about these underground clay tiles in farms!
just a tad bit of info for you they make clay adapters for plastic to clay! but nice work!!!
Wondered if anyone had mentioned the adapters. Only issue with those are if the clay you're tying into isn't round any more.
Yeah in one part of the video I was using them. They cost 8 bucks a piece and I was going to need 10 of them. Seems like cutting and tile tap does the trick.
@@spencerhilbert im over in south dakota not sure where youre at but if you ever need help ive done alot of drain tile!
Great work guys. Keep it up great video
I love your videos! Don't stop what you are doing you will be big one day and you have good energy, i'm from sweden you're going global.
Nice video hopefully you boys can get a second tractor and take some of the work load off the 8110 keep at it Hilbert Bros.
I'm so exited to follow this! Keep up the great work! However, I just need to say, PLEASE! 12:59 don't dare stand in trenches like that, it can so easily just collapse. Anyways, keep up with these awesome videos!
those trenches are not that deep, they were fine
Excellent work!!!
I seen a mouse when you were digging to the clay tile and it cimbed up on the clay tile piece.
Good eye he made it out.
I bought a place was in crp for years just a couple years after it was tiled I didn't have to remove a single tree when I broke it again the guy stuck to the rules and controlled the trees and weeds we had a beautiful stand of nice tall native grass to bale before breaking iti had the boys scared I fired up the old 706 they thought we were doing 160 acres of thick tall grass in square bales they'd forgot it had to move before the dump trailer could get out in case we needed to move dirt it was a little overkill for the couple patches of rocks we found
A semi truck that has a flat deck with ramps or a lowboy trailer would be useful for transporting farm equipment back and forth between fields
Yeah for this first year driving tractor made sense because we were bringing the planter as well. I don’t know how the planter would fit on a flatbed.
@@spencerhilbert maybe ramps off the side instead of the back but you’re right two tractors would make the most sense
I’ve been watching you and your brother Grants videos and seen you both have tractor each
I really enjoy seeing the two of you sharing farm equipment and working together
Dig a trailer high pit or build up dirt ramp to side load with tractor. It takes us two forklifts to load and unload 18 rows by lifting and moving the trailer underneath which is easier in a shop than a field. @spencerhilbert
@@rafaelvazquez7465 what do you do with the tongue of the planter? Unbolt it? Wouldn’t it be sticking 20ft in traffic?
More videos please 🙏
Great job, excellent video
Welcome to farming.
Where I’m from the state DEP would have an meltdown if we dug dirt out of a creek.
Saturday morning watching a grown man playing in a BIG mud puddle ☕
Im a tiler you can use a clay of plastic eight inch or a inter cupler
If only you and your bro had any work ethic, lazy RUclipsr farmers.
/sarcasm. When you two are older you will own the entire county and have an empire and legacy to pass down. I love watching what you two are doing and admire getting after it, getting muddy, greasy, dusty, sweaty and tired. I showed my wife your two guys videos a few months ago and she is always asking how your doing. We then sit and catch her up by watching your two channels.
Hello Spencer i like the video an the excavator link belt
Great videos
Did you guys have past farming experience? Any tips on getting started?
We are starting ours from scratch and feel lost as to what should come first!
Awesome work man!
I love that video!
Be cool if something like digging up your field to repair pipelines were added into the next farming simulator game maybe fs24?
Nice work!
Grant oh there we go where the f**k was that
Lol 😂😂
Being a tile guy for a living this made me cringe! But good job finding the issue we hate tree roots
What tips do you have for me? Or feedback on what I could have done better? What would you have done in this situation? Thanks for watching!
Why do you keep the clay and not just replace it withs the tube completely?
Might be a dumb question but . Why not just replace everything so you know all is good 4 years to come. Just wondering.
Yeah I would have if it was after harvest. A few days after I would be planting and that would tear everything up. It would be a lot more work to do that. Trenching with excavator isn’t as accurate compared to a tile plow or trencher. I knew everything else is flowing fine.
@@spencerhilbert right on was just wondering. Thanks for the reply 💯💯
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thumbnail has me rolling
If you had the trailer for it, would it be better to transport the tractor and planter on the trailer between farms?
Yeah that would be better. Just don’t have a trailer or semi. Also had to bring planter up so thought it would be easier to just drive it with tractor.
Not sure how the planter would fit on a trailer.
Wow! If you're going to do that drive very often, maybe a trailer should be in your future.
Yeah for sure. This first year it seemed easiest to just drive.
Nice video
I get 'starting from scratch' but this isn't from scratch. I figured coming to this channel it was buying the 4020 buying a cheap planter and working up from true scratch
Yeah I see what your saying. A different way of looking at it is, all the equipment is bought by my brother and I over the past few years. While is high school and through college we had RUclips channels playing “Farming Simulator”. We were able to save up money from that and start from there. I need to make a video sometime explaining the backstory for those who haven’t followed use for awhile. This is a “new” channel I started. But yeah it’s not from scratch and very minimal amount of money from farming has made the purchases to buy more equipment/land. It came from outside jobs, but I really wouldn’t recommend starting farming without another income source.
Also in a couple weeks I will have a video on making small square bales and selling them to see how much I can make. I bought all the equipment and started “small”. That might be the true starting from scratch…😂 excited to see how those turn out.
So the tile just takes water between the cracks ?
No soak pits or sumps ?
Yes. Through the joints where it connects to each 1 foot section.
Why didn't you have it hauled if it was a 90 mile drive? Or was it 9?
Depending on how many low lying areas will determine the number of tile lines throughout the field.
A lot of extra work u didn't ecpect
Hopefully John Deere will sponsor you guys ..to Showcasing their new TRACTORS .....😮😢🎉😂❤
Would you have not just found a planter that would have worked well behind your 4020? I really like what you're doing with minimal equipment. Ran the calculations your gross income could be close to 50k in 1 season. I like seeing you do with old equipment. Doing it that way you could actually see a farm paid off in just a few years.
I had about a month between closing on the farm and planting. I was in a time crunch and spending much of it getting it ready to plant. Thought for this first year using my brothers planter would be best. Didn’t want to risk having a planter I am not familiar with for this first year.
@@spencerhilbert I understand. I really like what you're doing and still believe that this older equipment is practical. You know if one day you want to farm several thousand acres, then I am sure you're going to need modern equipment. But still yet I see these people roading massive tractors a long ways. Why could we not downsize to smaller equipment and just put equipment closer to these farms? 100 to 120 horse tractors, well-maintained maybe 20 years old you could own half a dozen of them to every 1 large tractor.
LETS GO HE POSTED
i notice something grant don’t be doing much on his channel
50 acres not much to work with was it worth it
What farm sim mod is this
tx this is interesting
U should buy like a 4640
Be a farmer they said, it will be easy they said, nothing ever goes wrong they said. But hey playing in the water was always fun as a kid right?
Well hell spencer you could’ve planted rice
Screw the tile, dig it up and put in plastic pipe
Yeah that’s the right way to solve the problem. Was on a time crunch and wanted to get it fixed for this year.
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What did grant say 9:46
Hey
Did u drive the excavator 90miles to the field too? lol
Yeah took 3 days took back roads 😂
I would’ve found somebody to haul that baby up there. I don’t care if it would’ve cost me a couple hundred bucks. I will save that in tires for you and wear and tear and go to bed in there in an hour.
How would you haul planter? Pull with pickup?
Its also called terracotta... yes its clay tile but i believe the correct name is terracotta.
Interesting never heard that before
@spencerhilbert i worked for a plumbing company my first 2 years out of highschool.. we did alot of sewer work and old houses would have roots in the sewer and cause backups 90% of the time it was older homes built in the 50s and they all had clay pipe exactly like that drain tile and they called it teracotta