Love this actually, I'm a landscaper, I do a lot of this, it's always interesting to watch different ways people do things and how I could adapt them to my own applications.
Once I was driving an open station tractor, we never had one that wasn't, after a day's work a vulcanized patch on the tube let loose and it was filled with fluid. It was about two miles from home, on blacktop, I had already driven about 10 miles, and it was squirting out slowly enough I figured I could easily make it home before it went flat. I did but that is a treat not too many people alive today get to experience. It was in about 1963, I was 15 but your remark about riding home on an open station tractor brought that back to mind. I had not thought of it in years, thanks, at my age there are lots of things buried in my mind that get brought up, almost all of them funny in one way or another.
3:31 with you on that one. Best shoes are the shoes on the verge. I have custom made shoes (ya know, for occasions) but even those don't compare to the comfort of a well worn pair of shoes. Chef's kiss, 10 stars.
Here in alabama heat index is 110 to 115. I just got off a jd sound guard cab. My hat's off to you. I am 63 and i have done manual labor in the past. Guess i am getting sorry. Great Job as always. When you get older you will wonder how you did these things. Good health to you.
If you would have come to Ricks, we could have put you to work over there too! We also went from sun up to sun down. Hope to see you at Bork-a-palooza 2022! Oh and the drainage looks nice too.
For putting the stone into the trench, try bringing the bucket level above the trench, pull out the stone with a rake. Skip the lifting with the shovel. Your method for measuring the stone depth is very ingenious!
That tile brings back memories of my youth. My first good job was tying those rolls off as they came off the corrugator that made them. Eventually worked up to macine operator but it was still hot sweaty work. We actually made some where we put the filter fabric as the tile came off the corrugator. I also experienced calming, cooling tractor rides on summer evenings when we worked long days on the apricot harvests when we worked summers duting our highschool years.
I built a miniature version of that around my house and my neighbors have tied into it. I didn’t put the little end grates on and now the rats use it as an underground highway and can travel 3 properties without cats or owls harassing them. Lol. Great job.
I'm glad to see you put in two tile lines, when I had the tile put in around my house I had them put in two 8 inch . They said I was nuts, but the hole was open and the tile was the cheapest part. A couple of months later we had 6 inches of rain overnight both tiles were running over half full.
Yes been there done that for several years maybe not on the tractor but flat on my back on top of a load of square bales, knowing it was supper time and the wagon unload would be in the cool morning air. Maybe a pit stop at the milk cooler for a drink of fresh 38 degree milk.
A good friend of mine who's in his 80s parks his loader at the end of the road to his gravel pit, he leaves an old bike in the pit when he come in with the truck he runs out to the loader on the bike and leaves it there, when he's done he drives the loader out and bikes back. You need an old bike haha.
I enjoy a good pair of broke in work boots myself. They look like Redwing. If you have a Redwing store near you, you can take your boots in and they will send them to the factory for resole and refurbishment. You can even pick the sole you want.
Progress is being made! One thought occurs - with how dry you have had things, think it'd be worthwhile to drop a well in for your shed? Keep up the good work.
We referred to that as blinding the tile. We did the small concrete tile up to 10 inch with the wheel. Then we blinded it with tiling spades so the tile wouldn't shift when we filled trench. Was the summer, and autumn of 81. Thanks for posting Squatch.
I have worn my Danner super rain forrest boots for over 4 years now and they still aren't coming apart. I did have to have the lace eyelets replaced because they started cutting laces but they have been worn hard 16+ hour days in the shop and field and I think they will make it 5 years before they start giving it up.
I doubt you see any "water shooting right out" at the end. Doubt you see any, really. With that much run and bottom rock, any water that may get into the pipe is going to fall out the perforations in the next few inches and through the gravel. Remember, gravity sucks... straight down. Water likes to flow down not sideways. You have to contain it or trick it to go sideways. You've built a good system if you are just looking to disperse water. If you wanted to move the water, your drain tile needs to be right on your fabric at the bottom and converted to non-perf or solid once you exit the wet area. Then gravel the top of the perf, more fabric. The solid pipe could be buried in dirt or if you are really anal, sanded to prevent crush, then dirt. Ideally, your perf should be in a V notch at the bottom to help keep the water in the perf. Don't trust an old engineer though... test it yourself. Put a garden hose into a piece of your scrap perf on a light slope. Turn the water on slowly for half hour. I'd be shocked if you get a drop out of the pipe at the bottom of your run. The corrugation of the pipe slows down the flow until it gets extreme. The slow flow falls out all your perforations. Be sure you put a critter guard on the daylight end of the pipe or you've just created 100+ feet of new home for lots of nature.
You've got a mixed bag of info. What YT content makers are missing most often is ignoring Manufacture Recommended Installation Guidelines. You mention critter guard but not that the guards he chose have 1/3 the flow rate of that pipe. Keep studying.
@@ramosel Is that b/c of your comprehension of gravity? Watch the Federal Highway Administration's demo video in my Stormwater Playlist, water absolutely moves sideways. It's easy to max out 4-inch corrugated, & even easier to clog it at slopes below 2%.
@@SlackerU Completely different application. Perforated pipe reacts differently to pressure, vacuum and backflow than solid pipe. Likewise,controlled entry is different than open entry. Apples and oranges. He's got a wet spot from sub strata seepage that he is collecting in gravel within a porous medium, not a concrete cistern with a bottom drain. Toby has done a good job of collection and dispersion, just not transport. Yes water moves sideways IF you contain it first... wait, did I say that before... yep, I wrote that. Did you read it? Had he built a concrete cistern to collect his runoff and run it out through a non-perforated your point would be absolutely valid. But, this is a French drain with an open head. READ first, comprehend, then type. The only unknown variable in this application is the percolation rate of the surrounding soil... he's got everything from sand to clay within 100 feet, so there is no known here. BTW, very good hydraulic simulation rig in the video. But again, it's based on a containment cistern and solid culvert. Neither of which are deployed here.
I like how you take in stride the manual shoveling work and see the fitness benefit it gives. Too many people avoid little things like that. I am amused when I drive through a residential area and see somebody coming home and painfully manoeuvering their vehicle up to their mailbox so they won't have to WALK back 50 feet from where they are going to park anyhow. Really??
Glad you got some rain! A near by town got belted pretty good, still have parts out of power 4 days later. I have gotten about 1" total out of the last few storms this week at most
I enjoy all of your videos but from what I've heard you say they aren't so simple to produce. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Another great video keep it up I'm really enjoying the outdoor series.
Nice work.👍 Glad you got some rain. Hope the storms weren't too bad by you. We were on generator power 20.5 hr Tuesday and 8 hr Wednesday here in NE Lincoln county WI. Heard Grand Rapids MN had baseball size hail and tornados.
When it's oneself and not the company that pays the material's bill, it's surprising just how efficient and accurate one becomes. I agree about the supremely comfortable work boots. 18 month's to supple them up, illegally worn out at two year's. Snooker table flatness before the rain's, not so much afterwards. Cheers.
That should work well for you. I grew up in a very wet area with clay subsoil (used to be a large swamp) and we have millions of feet of drain tile installed. I would have just dug it out dropped the tile in, covered to ensure depth and grade and then back filled.
Amazing as always........however, I find after watching your video's I usually need to take a couple pain pills and lay down for a nap.......Strange. (smile)
Always enjoy your creative camera angles and thanks for all the extra camera work which I know lengthens your projects but I appreciate it. I love your accurate method of filling the trench with rock without it pulling in the fabric but as you know, you could never make a living doing this. :-) Fortunately, you had gravity on your side. BTW, women pay extra to get jeans like that. "Do sophisticated people have this much fun?"
If you’re ever feeling bad.. there is someone always Willing. You can put your life together in one straw if you just surrender to God and profess.. that He is your God and savior. I care for you my friend, God willing you won’t cease yourself during your walk. God bless…
This guy took time to watch or listen to someone who knew what they were doing or he read a book. Maybe some of the things he knows about is from trial and error. Either way he does things correctly and thoroughly and is not a product of our do it quick "slap-dab" instant gratification society. My hat is off to him.
My day job has me behind a computer most of the time. The office doesn’t look any different after a whole days work. I love to have jobs at the house where there’s visible change after a whole day passes.
How bout a folding electric off road scooter stowed on the tractor to help with the return trip after shuttling it back? Gives your bones a rest & good excuse to have one, also they're fun as heck ;)
Isn't that a spade not a shovel? I thought a shovel was square ended for moving lose material and a spade like what he was using was a digging implement for getting into compacted material
You may have shoveled all that stone, but according to physics you haven't done much if any work! You have to lift it UP to do work in the view ofl physics. 8-)) Of course that bothered me when I learned that. LOL
Great job buddy you definitely work hard I’d never say you work like a idiot like you said lol hope you’re drainage works better than you think thanks for sharing buddy
Another one of the great ironies in life.....you spend time and energy removing rocks only to turn around and bring in another six yards of rock to put back into the ground....go figure!
I guess you viewer haven't heard, shabby is ( in ) ! I have good comfy pants shirts and shoes they feel great and sometimes random strangers give me money.
Where I'm from "drain tile" is actual ceramic pipe sections. That is plastic drainage pipe. I feel the same disappointment as when a friend said he had a performance car and opened to garage door to show me a Mustang.
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Those last 10 seconds were a gem!
You just can't help but love this guy. ALWAYS takes the time and effort to do things right the first time!
Yep, cause doing it twice is three times the work at least.
Love this actually, I'm a landscaper, I do a lot of this, it's always interesting to watch different ways people do things and how I could adapt them to my own applications.
Just got off my John Deere tractor and hour ago. Shower and a beer later, I'm in heaven. Sitting back, watching Squatch, cracking another.
Once I was driving an open station tractor, we never had one that wasn't, after a day's work a vulcanized patch on the tube let loose and it was filled with fluid. It was about two miles from home, on blacktop, I had already driven about 10 miles, and it was squirting out slowly enough I figured I could easily make it home before it went flat. I did but that is a treat not too many people alive today get to experience. It was in about 1963, I was 15 but your remark about riding home on an open station tractor brought that back to mind. I had not thought of it in years, thanks, at my age there are lots of things buried in my mind that get brought up, almost all of them funny in one way or another.
3:31 with you on that one. Best shoes are the shoes on the verge. I have custom made shoes (ya know, for occasions) but even those don't compare to the comfort of a well worn pair of shoes. Chef's kiss, 10 stars.
Here in alabama heat index is 110 to 115. I just got off a jd sound guard cab. My hat's off to you. I am 63 and i have done manual labor in the past. Guess i am getting sorry. Great Job as always. When you get older you will wonder how you did these things. Good health to you.
Totally agree with your final statements. Good job. You are a machine.
If you would have come to Ricks, we could have put you to work over there too! We also went from sun up to sun down. Hope to see you at Bork-a-palooza 2022! Oh and the drainage looks nice too.
Truer words never spoken, "Enjoy the simple things".
16 yds of 1-1/2 inch rock…”don’t threaten me with a good time”. 💪🏼
For putting the stone into the trench, try bringing the bucket level above the trench, pull out the stone with a rake. Skip the lifting with the shovel. Your method for measuring the stone depth is very ingenious!
Excellent video 👍👍👍👍it's nice to see after a rain where the true level is on dirt work like you are doing
That's some great job there!👌😎👍
I have been there, and understand the hard work. The ride home is great!
Wow Toby, that's a lot of rock to move one shovelful at a time! I'll bet nobody had to rock you to sleep after that day's work.
If only more people had common sense these days like this this guy!
That tile brings back memories of my youth. My first good job was tying those rolls off as they came off the corrugator that made them. Eventually worked up to macine operator but it was still hot sweaty work. We actually made some where we put the filter fabric as the tile came off the corrugator. I also experienced calming, cooling tractor rides on summer evenings when we worked long days on the apricot harvests when we worked summers duting our highschool years.
Nice field prep.. Well done Toby👍
Enjoy the simple things. That is the best advice in the world from this wise man.
Enjoy the simple things. Exactly
I built a miniature version of that around my house and my neighbors have tied into it. I didn’t put the little end grates on and now the rats use it as an underground highway and can travel 3 properties without cats or owls harassing them. Lol. Great job.
I'm glad to see you put in two tile lines, when I had the tile put in around my house I had them put in two 8 inch . They said I was nuts, but the hole was open and the tile was the cheapest part. A couple of months later we had 6 inches of rain overnight both tiles were running over half full.
Shampoo, rinse, and repeat. Four inches of rock, over and over. 👍
Couldn’t have said it better myself there at the end! Another great video
Good video. I agree. The simple things are best.
1:57 some call your collector-point a Minnesota-Blind-Inlet. They usually use 30ft of 4-inch FD to max out a 4-inch-PVC or a 6-inch-corrugated.
That cool ride home on a open tractor is something I can agree to
Yes been there done that for several years maybe not on the tractor but flat on my back on top of a load of square bales, knowing it was supper time and the wagon unload would be in the cool morning air.
Maybe a pit stop at the milk cooler for a drink of fresh 38 degree milk.
Well said Squatch!!!!
30 years a carpenter outside I get it. Now the sun feels like a hot fireplace at 65. I paid my dues.
Great work ethic there Squatch 👍
you make some of your work way harder then it needs to be.
A good friend of mine who's in his 80s parks his loader at the end of the road to his gravel pit, he leaves an old bike in the pit when he come in with the truck he runs out to the loader on the bike and leaves it there, when he's done he drives the loader out and bikes back. You need an old bike haha.
Lol we used a mini bike like that, it’s light enough one guy can put it on the back of a tractor, or back of a truck.
I enjoy a good pair of broke in work boots myself. They look like Redwing. If you have a Redwing store near you, you can take your boots in and they will send them to the factory for resole and refurbishment. You can even pick the sole you want.
You're a hard worker Squatch. Well Done. Mick 👍🍻
The Iron Mistress photo bombed so many of those scenes. I was hoping to see some dirt pushing goodness!
Enjoy the simple things!
Great video 💪👍
Amen on that open-air tractor ride home at the end of a long day. It was my favorite part of barning tobacco! Everything looks great.
Well worn boots are the simplest pleasure. So if you are comfortable, then it's nobody's business but yours.
Progress is being made! One thought occurs - with how dry you have had things, think it'd be worthwhile to drop a well in for your shed? Keep up the good work.
We referred to that as blinding the tile.
We did the small concrete tile up to 10 inch with the wheel.
Then we blinded it with tiling spades so the tile wouldn't shift when we filled trench.
Was the summer, and autumn of 81.
Thanks for posting Squatch.
I have worn my Danner super rain forrest boots for over 4 years now and they still aren't coming apart. I did have to have the lace eyelets replaced because they started cutting laces but they have been worn hard 16+ hour days in the shop and field and I think they will make it 5 years before they start giving it up.
I doubt you see any "water shooting right out" at the end. Doubt you see any, really. With that much run and bottom rock, any water that may get into the pipe is going to fall out the perforations in the next few inches and through the gravel. Remember, gravity sucks... straight down. Water likes to flow down not sideways. You have to contain it or trick it to go sideways. You've built a good system if you are just looking to disperse water. If you wanted to move the water, your drain tile needs to be right on your fabric at the bottom and converted to non-perf or solid once you exit the wet area. Then gravel the top of the perf, more fabric. The solid pipe could be buried in dirt or if you are really anal, sanded to prevent crush, then dirt. Ideally, your perf should be in a V notch at the bottom to help keep the water in the perf.
Don't trust an old engineer though... test it yourself. Put a garden hose into a piece of your scrap perf on a light slope. Turn the water on slowly for half hour. I'd be shocked if you get a drop out of the pipe at the bottom of your run. The corrugation of the pipe slows down the flow until it gets extreme. The slow flow falls out all your perforations.
Be sure you put a critter guard on the daylight end of the pipe or you've just created 100+ feet of new home for lots of nature.
You've got a mixed bag of info. What YT content makers are missing most often is ignoring Manufacture Recommended Installation Guidelines. You mention critter guard but not that the guards he chose have 1/3 the flow rate of that pipe. Keep studying.
@@SlackerU That pipe in this application will never see 1/3 it's rated flow, so it's inconsequential.
@@ramosel Is that b/c of your comprehension of gravity? Watch the Federal Highway Administration's demo video in my Stormwater Playlist, water absolutely moves sideways. It's easy to max out 4-inch corrugated, & even easier to clog it at slopes below 2%.
@@SlackerU Completely different application. Perforated pipe reacts differently to pressure, vacuum and backflow than solid pipe. Likewise,controlled entry is different than open entry. Apples and oranges. He's got a wet spot from sub strata seepage that he is collecting in gravel within a porous medium, not a concrete cistern with a bottom drain. Toby has done a good job of collection and dispersion, just not transport.
Yes water moves sideways IF you contain it first... wait, did I say that before... yep, I wrote that. Did you read it? Had he built a concrete cistern to collect his runoff and run it out through a non-perforated your point would be absolutely valid. But, this is a French drain with an open head. READ first, comprehend, then type. The only unknown variable in this application is the percolation rate of the surrounding soil... he's got everything from sand to clay within 100 feet, so there is no known here.
BTW, very good hydraulic simulation rig in the video. But again, it's based on a containment cistern and solid culvert. Neither of which are deployed here.
What we can all agree on is that the area in question will not have any drainage problems!
I like how you take in stride the manual shoveling work and see the fitness benefit it gives. Too many people avoid little things like that. I am amused when I drive through a residential area and see somebody coming home and painfully manoeuvering their vehicle up to their mailbox so they won't have to WALK back 50 feet from where they are going to park anyhow. Really??
Glad you got some rain! A near by town got belted pretty good, still have parts out of power 4 days later. I have gotten about 1" total out of the last few storms this week at most
Looks like it is coming along! Great job. Now I know how to do drain tile!
I enjoy all of your videos but from what I've heard you say they aren't so simple to produce. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Another great video keep it up I'm really enjoying the outdoor series.
Nice work.👍 Glad you got some rain. Hope the storms weren't too bad by you. We were on generator power 20.5 hr Tuesday and 8 hr Wednesday here in NE Lincoln county WI. Heard Grand Rapids MN had baseball size hail and tornados.
Wise advice
When it's oneself and not the company that pays the material's bill, it's surprising just how efficient and accurate one becomes. I agree about the supremely comfortable work boots. 18 month's to supple them up, illegally worn out at two year's. Snooker table flatness before the rain's, not so much afterwards. Cheers.
Great video squatch253! Folks now a days are scared to put in a hard days work. Cheers sir
Heckofa day’s work. I’m sure you slept well after this one. 😎👍👀
I have a set of jeans just like yours for dirty work. I have another set of jeans for going to town.
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Thanks for the video!
Life is a learning curve!
Hindsight is 20-15!
Thanks again for bring us along. Spoiler alert: the last :30 is the best part. 👍
your doing a great job man good job man good video
That should work well for you. I grew up in a very wet area with clay subsoil (used to be a large swamp) and we have millions of feet of drain tile installed. I would have just dug it out dropped the tile in, covered to ensure depth and grade and then back filled.
To quote Cole the Cornstar ' work harder not smarter'😋
Amazing as always........however, I find after watching your video's I usually need to take a couple pain pills and lay down for a nap.......Strange. (smile)
Always enjoy your creative camera angles and thanks for all the extra camera work which I know lengthens your projects but I appreciate it. I love your accurate method of filling the trench with rock without it pulling in the fabric but as you know, you could never make a living doing this. :-) Fortunately, you had gravity on your side. BTW, women pay extra to get jeans like that.
"Do sophisticated people have this much fun?"
Not usually.
Fantastic job there!
If you’re ever feeling bad.. there is someone always Willing. You can put your life together in one straw if you just surrender to God and profess.. that He is your God and savior. I care for you my friend, God willing you won’t cease yourself during your walk. God bless…
Good video
Squatch don't wear docker short out on the farm, haha
My boots 🥾 look the same, just broke in nice. I put tuff toe on the cap and keep going 🇺🇸👍
I've put in over 50 of these ditches in my life time and being particular is what it takes Fine Job...my hats off to ya.
amen on the worn in work boots!!
Enjoy the simple things! I wish more people understood the truth in that statement.
Agreed
This guy took time to watch or listen to someone who knew what they were doing or he read a book. Maybe some of the things he knows about is from trial and error. Either way he does things correctly and thoroughly and is not a product of our do it quick "slap-dab" instant gratification society. My hat is off to him.
My day job has me behind a computer most of the time. The office doesn’t look any different after a whole days work. I love to have jobs at the house where there’s visible change after a whole day passes.
That gravel will drain so well sitting on a clay deck that I bet those pipes never get water in them unless you have a flood.
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I just broke down and got a new pair of work boots. I don't miss breaking them in.
So how did the drain tile work for the passing derecho weather event this passed week?
Hope it gave the northeast MN farmers the needed rain.
How bout a folding electric off road scooter stowed on the tractor to help with the return trip after shuttling it back? Gives your bones a rest & good excuse to have one, also they're fun as heck ;)
Your rock level is as accurate as your fold over locks!
Post10 has to inspect that culvert before use.
Find the agates in the pile of rock!
The plywood with the 4 inch mark is genius. Now if you could just figure out a way to meter the stone in the bucket?
So disappointed. Squatch missed the perfect opportunity to use a side boom Cat dozer to load in his pipe into the trench. :)
Enjoy the simple things. That's why my wife says she keeps me around..... Not sure what she means by that.
Getting it done
I agree.
Isn't that a spade not a shovel? I thought a shovel was square ended for moving lose material and a spade like what he was using was a digging implement for getting into compacted material
You may have shoveled all that stone, but according to physics you haven't done much if any work! You have to lift it UP to do work in the view ofl physics. 8-)) Of course that bothered me when I learned that. LOL
Hey keep your eyes out for arrowheads and other stone artifacts
Great job buddy you definitely work hard I’d never say you work like a idiot like you said lol hope you’re drainage works better than you think thanks for sharing buddy
A question about your backhoe on your Kubota. Is it a 3 pt hitch model or a permanently mounted one?
Take it easy on that plywood. That stuff is like gold these days……
Another one of the great ironies in life.....you spend time and energy removing rocks only to turn around and bring in another six yards of rock to put back into the ground....go figure!
I guess you viewer haven't heard, shabby is ( in ) ! I have good comfy pants shirts and shoes they feel great and sometimes random strangers give me money.
What is your slope on that pipe?
@@squatch253 Wow! In the videos, grade looks so perfectly level it was hard to tell.
"I work like an idiot"
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Oops! You already figured out what I suggested.
think Job plan through twice, do Job once...
♪♫♫♪ ♪♫ .... Well you load 16 tons ... and what do you get ... ♪♫♫ ...another day older and deeper in debit ...♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ ♪♫
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Where I'm from "drain tile" is actual ceramic pipe sections.
That is plastic drainage pipe.
I feel the same disappointment as when a friend said he had a performance car and opened to garage door to show me a Mustang.
Hey squatch. I got a really cool machine I’d love to show you pictures of. Do you have an email or something?