Hey zack.... my mother and I watch your videos every chance we get. Your a great teacher and my only request is to tell you to try not deleting or giving up on videos you think may not be terribly interesting. We enjoy learning all the inner workings of a big farm. We are 2 non farmers from southwest pa.
I agree completely. I am a truck driver in the North East. I don't know the first thing about farming but i love watching anything with equipment working. I'd like to think i am learning a lot from your videos and both podcasts! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
My grandpa installed field tile with an old Spiker tile machine. I learned how to drive when I was 6- I spent some time with him that summer and I was running the backhoe backfilling the trench after the tile had been placed. Thank you for sharing this video!
THIS BY FAR IS YOUR BEST VIDEO YET,Very interesting,how technology has come,gps guidance,that machine that trenches and lays tile has serious power,we farmed some ground that had old school 1ft long clay tiles,holes went to the bottom,repairing them OMG,what an adventure that was,THANKS FOR BEING OUT IN COLD RAINY AND WINDY DAY TO MAKE YHIS VIDEO,freezing rain and wind,colder than a snowing windy day
I have been driving to Indiana for a year now from NY and seeing these machines working in the fields and couldn't imagine what they were doing. I thought it might have been irrigation. You have by far the best and most informative videos on you tube. I have yet to not learn something on every video. You present it in a way everyone can understand. That new logo is awesome. Keep up the good work.
I grew up in Saint Cloud and have been living in Washington state for the past 15 years. Your videos are always a reminder of home without having to drive there. Glad to see your your work and hope you all are well.
Fascinating and awesome step in the right direction. Most folks don't remember the dust bowl days back in the 30's and how important it is to control soil erosion. This farmer may only be gaining 1/2 an acre of field but in viewing the bigger picture if most of the farmers in any given area were employing this method, the benefits are huge. Thanks so much for sharing.
I did this in the summer fall and winter of 2016. Being a greenhorn, I was stuck with being a swamper, the guy who climbs in and out of the ditch all day to connect the laterals and t-junctions. Very hard work. Finally they trained me on the tractor so I could string out the pipe. Little did I know, that's some hard work too! Good video. Peace!
Thanks for the info on what they do to tile the fields. It will also help the farmers to gain back the wet ground. Also good to know the the farmer does not have to shoulder the full cost of doing this to their fields. Keep up the good work promoting farming.
This fellow farmer really appreciates what you are doing trying to educate non farmers are how serious soil conservation is. Your dialog and video are worth 10,000 words
Thank You guy's Again thank you so much for the continued education on drain tile. Had to rework a drain tile in the farm field as the gas well drillers cut the drain tile when they dug the drillers mud tank. Then next this field drain tile also drains a 2 to 3 gallon per minute spring in the West end of the field some 700 to 750 feet from a creek. The sub layer of this field soil is water bering sand the drain tile has to set on a base board. Thank You for the video's you have made. Have A Great Day. Richard
This is all fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing with us. It takes a lot of time and effort to put videos together and that in itself shows that you really care about what your doing. Right on man!
Awesome! I farm in Nebraska but got a place on SD side of Big Stone Lake, good info here. Keeping our water clean, thanks guys, and the farmers that do the tiling
Great video. Back in the 50's my dad worked for the Soil Conservation Service in So.Illinois. I can imagine him being all eyes and ears watching this video. Thanks for the great work folks.
Such a great video, it was really nice of them to give you that kind of access. Thank you farmers for being great stewards of the land. Hope you’re ready for this channel to blow up!
Great videos! Many people will get a great education on farming, especially the young ones. Most of my family members were into farming while I was going up. here in the south. Man, it has come along way since the 50s-80s. Keep up the great work on feeding the world. Oh ya, Go Falcons!
Excellent. Truly outstanding!! Todd Wickerly of Wickerly Farms over right outside of Hurdsfield North Dakota did to 29, 689 acres the last 2 years. I ran one of 5 trenchers night and day. My God My God. I loved it as much as I do pulling grain buggy. With one of 6 of the Cat Challenger 900 E series Tractors. 600 HP articulates
Excellent video, helps explain about the need for tile and water ways. Prior to 1980, every field had a water way of some sort in it. Then equipment got big and farmers got lazy and just worked them up. I live in north central Ohio and now I see water ways being put back in fields like they should be. Great video, thx..
When I got back home from being up at Lyle (a few wears back) I told people it was 5 feet thick and black as coal. I think I nailed it. Gracious you got some good dirt,Zach!
@@MillennialFarmer In Germany our drain tiles was built by hand in the 19th century and for the new drain tiles we have something like a plough which is pulled by a tractor and it rip up the ground to put the tile in it
Thanks for the great video Zach! Tiling has sure come a long ways. I barely remember my Grandpa putting in tile in the 1960's but I remember the red drainage tile.
It was a miracle in it's day. Today it's just common sense. It drained a lot of wetlands unfortunately, but farming is about feeding people. I've lived in Africa with people who literally owned the clothes on their back and the bowl in their hand. And in that bowl was American corn. You are doing tremendous work Zach. Education is the key to the door of understanding. So proud of you!
So I finally got this explained. I watched same type of job in Holland but there they put down a lot of filt tubes going up and down and up and down across the field. I thought it was to reduce the amount of water in the soil. But now I see it could have something to do with erosion too.
Warm regards from Alberta from a grateful subscriber ... it's not so much the slight acreage gained, it is much more that it makes the entire parcel more farmable, being able to cross and farm across that draw for the next 50 years makes the entire parcel more farmable and valuable. imho.
Awesome video! Awesome new logo!! It was great to see this video. It explains what a large farmer around here did. His land is very close to a creek and I wondered what they did and the purpose. NOW I KNOW!! Thanks and keep up these great videos.
That was a terrific and informative video. Thanks to Randy and the crew and awesome equipment. And of course, to the videographer and interviewer par excellence.
I don’t know if you will see my comment ,but back in the late 1940’s and early’50s my dad and a crew of migrant workers tiled 245 acres of our farm by hand. Shovels, string levels and backs‼️ And now some of the best potato growing land in the north east is big industrial parks and housing developments ‼️ I truly miss it ‼️
I see by the date this video was made nearly a year ago. Very interesting, Zach, we here in Mi. don't have a lot of problem with erosion, but we do use a lot of drain tile. Nearly every time a farm is sold now days, will be grid tiled, every 40'. Having been brought up behind a tiling machine, and having one for every year of my life on the farm. I really enjoyed this memory, Thanks!
Great video!!!! Thumbs up. Just a thought NBC needs new morning show host. You should send resume in. Thank you to Big Stone for answering questions and video taping.
wow! We have farmers in Delaware who would kill for some of your black soil. We are extremely sandy. Being within 3-10 miles from the Delaware Bay. The marsh lands extend 3- 6 miles inland in many spots along our coast. Making it difficult to control run off from the fields. The use of hedge rows, tax ditches, and buried drains helps us some. We had a combine sit out in the field all winter near us (8 mi inland) because the field looked solid and was only frozen a few inches deep. He got 50 ft off the road and it fell in up the front axles. Sure hate to see a big piece of equipment like that have to sit without cover all winter. He will have rust everywhere in the bin, auger, pick up, etc. You are fortunate to have the big sheds and rubber tracked track tractor. Good video. I will be going back to look at the earlier ones, a far as I can. Keep on plugg'n.
Andrew Hanson this flows a large amount of acres, I explained why a buffer wasn't really an option for this project. Buffers can work well in the correct situations, but they're not "1 size fits all"
Very Interesting, It`s good to see how you guys deal with wet land basically it same systems the only thing we do in the UK is we tend to cover the pipe with 1/2 - 3/4 inch clean gravel or pea gravel.
@@spencermoss5528Yes noticed that, Did notice in places they have quite a depth of top soil, In the Greater Republic of North Yorkshire we have less than 6 inches on some fields
Started watching your videos a couple weeks ago. Very good videos, a lot of farming channels is mostly music and drone footage. Yours are better because it's about teaching and information. Your love of land and farming really shows through!
This is one of the most interesting videos , yet!! How many feet of tile did they end up placing? How much additional yield do you hope to get? And how many headaches have been alleviated? Thanks for posting this video
I enjoy watching your videos and find them interesting. I was wondering if you could revisit this field this next summer to show the difference that the basins and drain tile have done. Would be going into the second year of being done and would be nice to see the progress.
Consider yourself fortunate. Most things like that done in Iowa that are cost shared require a waterway to be put in also. So you end up losing a little farm ground in the end. Very well done!! You can tell they know what they are doing.
Great video, I was against tiling but after this I understand it better. I am duck and pheasant hunter, and always thought of tiling as draining habitat. BTW MPL needs to smear a little mud on his vest so it looks like he does more than sit in tile plow all day!
This drain tile stuff needs about 635,000 more views to hit a million views and all of them need to subscribe. This is real life improvement. Like and share the hell out of this video and all farming videos for that matter so we can help these farmers create some income to get better equipment and we can learn and be entertained. We also like to eat......so......yeah......that is important.
An excellent video which makes a big and largely successful stab at explaining a complicated subject - well done. Just remember you are talking and explaining to a largely, but not exclusively, American audience where the issues regarding land drainage may be somewhat different. For example in Europe for a rain storm to dump 3.85 inches in one hit even in a 10 yr time span is virtually unheard of let alone experienced - that amount in a month would be considered a lot! (with an annual rainfall [inc snow] of approx 30"). Soil erosion by water movement does occur but is not a common sight at all except on very light sandy soils on slopes, whereas water logging is very common indeed especially in the more Western parts of Europe where we have a climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. The further East and South you travel the hotter and drier is the climate.
Thanks for video. Enjoyed explanation on how drainage tile works. Living next to Ohio River you can see how muddy the river is from erosion. No big rocks to pick up. I wonder why you do not have a rock crusher to break down the stones and put in you driveway.. Later.
Amazing video again. Y'alls farms dwarf the NC dairys and every type we have. I learn something new every time. Have you ever thought of linking up with wounded warrior project. A soldier/veteran would love to spend a day and learn about all you do. It's amazing how hard y'all work 7 days a week. Keep up the good work brother.... ( crick ) haha love it man.
Great video and well explained. Could you offer some insight as to why people would find this practice a bad thing to do? Seems like everyone would be on board with it.
Interesting - I've always wondered about the tile process for fields. Thanks for sharing. I know this is 2 years old and I may not get a response but I'm curious if you've revisited that location and spoken with the farmer to see if the project was a success? THANKS.
Hey Zach...I enjoy watching your channel. You do a nice job both with the farming as well as the filming and vid production. Was wondering if you would consider listing the camera equipment and accessories you use. I like the quality. Keep up the good work. From farm country in SW Indiana .
Most of my videos are made with a gopro hero 5 black, but the audio is not good in a lot of situations. This was the first video where I used a Canon G7X for most of it. The action shots are still with the gopro, and the drone video is with a DJI Phantom 3 Pro.
LE LDE one huge thing that helps me with the gopro is a magnetic mount. It's so convenient because there's always somewhere to put it and I can move it around so easily.
Only understood about 5% of what they were talking about thru the whole video - especially around the 13:30 mark when Zack starts talking about nitrates and phosphorus (Zack, you're a smart dude!) - but so mesmerized by them installing the tile I watched the entire thing. Just found this channel and I'm pretty sure there's going to be some MN Millennial Farmer videos binge watching tonight. Thanks Zack. Happy 4th of July 2019!
I have used that style pipe and have had issues with the pipe going oval and in one area it was crushed by heavy trailers. hope you have better luck with it
The soil is very heavy up there in MN looks like a peat top with a lack clay base not free flowing at all and would hold alot of water. This reminds me of a peat bog field here in Ireland in the midlands of our country. What we use in such soil is a herring bone type of drainage to drain as much water as possible from the soil.
In my job, I provide funding to municipalities to install water, sewer and storm sewer systems. The hydraulic load of the pipes are designed essentially the same way as you described. Storm Sewer is designed on 3, 5, 10 or 100 yr rain fall events. I helped out the city of Graceville just down the road with their utility project.
I am curious, are the basins at the beginning or the end of the tile runs. By this I, mean are they designed to hold water and slowly feed the tile or are they at the end of the tile to catch the water and drain into a nearby creek or river. On storm drains for municipalities, MPCA is requiring a "settlement" pond for storm sewer that is drained from city streets. This prevents the grit and debris from entering the receiving creek/river. All of this is being driven on "impaired" water ways that eventually lead to the Mississippi river delta south of New Orleans. One of my current projects is currently installing 72" storm sewer pipe that is made at the Hancock plant. That is some big stuff....
I learned so much in this video thank you for presenting it. The machines we're awsome I thought the price was a bit low for the amount of work done. Great for the farmer and for us great job guys
Hey zack.... my mother and I watch your videos every chance we get. Your a great teacher and my only request is to tell you to try not deleting or giving up on videos you think may not be terribly interesting. We enjoy learning all the inner workings of a big farm. We are 2 non farmers from southwest pa.
Charles Yothers Jr Thank you, I appreciate it!!
I agree completely. I am a truck driver in the North East. I don't know the first thing about farming but i love watching anything with equipment working. I'd like to think i am learning a lot from your videos and both podcasts! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
My grandpa installed field tile with an old Spiker tile machine. I learned how to drive when I was 6- I spent some time with him that summer and I was running the backhoe backfilling the trench after the tile had been placed. Thank you for sharing this video!
THIS BY FAR IS YOUR BEST VIDEO YET,Very interesting,how technology has come,gps guidance,that machine that trenches and lays tile has serious power,we farmed some ground that had old school 1ft long clay tiles,holes went to the bottom,repairing them OMG,what an adventure that was,THANKS FOR BEING OUT IN COLD RAINY AND WINDY DAY TO MAKE YHIS VIDEO,freezing rain and wind,colder than a snowing windy day
michael heinen Thank you, that's a great compliment!
Glad to see this video I deliver the same tile. I've been hauling it for 4 years and haven't really seen it installed before.
I have been driving to Indiana for a year now from NY and seeing these machines working in the fields and couldn't imagine what they were doing. I thought it might have been irrigation. You have by far the best and most informative videos on you tube. I have yet to not learn something on every video. You present it in a way everyone can understand. That new logo is awesome. Keep up the good work.
Chris Rodriguez Thank you! That's quite a compliment!
I grew up in Saint Cloud and have been living in Washington state for the past 15 years. Your videos are always a reminder of home without having to drive there. Glad to see your your work and hope you all are well.
Scott Janku Very cool, thanks for watching!
Fascinating and awesome step in the right direction. Most folks don't remember the dust bowl days back in the 30's and how important it is to control soil erosion. This farmer may only be gaining 1/2 an acre of field but in viewing the bigger picture if most of the farmers in any given area were employing this method, the benefits are huge. Thanks so much for sharing.
I did this in the summer fall and winter of 2016. Being a greenhorn, I was stuck with being a swamper, the guy who climbs in and out of the ditch all day to connect the laterals and t-junctions. Very hard work. Finally they trained me on the tractor so I could string out the pipe. Little did I know, that's some hard work too! Good video. Peace!
Thanks for the info on what they do to tile the fields. It will also help the farmers to gain back the wet ground. Also good to know the the farmer does not have to shoulder the full cost of doing this to their fields. Keep up the good work promoting farming.
This fellow farmer really appreciates what you are doing trying to educate non farmers are how serious soil conservation is. Your dialog and video are worth 10,000 words
Thank You guy's
Again thank you so much for the continued education on drain tile. Had to rework a drain tile in the farm field as the gas well drillers cut the drain tile when they dug the drillers mud tank. Then next this field drain tile also drains a 2 to 3 gallon per minute spring in the West end of the field some 700 to 750 feet from a creek.
The sub layer of this field soil is water bering sand the drain tile has to set on a base board.
Thank You for the video's you have made.
Have A Great Day.
Richard
It would be nice to see an after shot of this next spring. Thanks for sharing !
This is all fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing with us. It takes a lot of time and effort to put videos together and that in itself shows that you really care about what your doing. Right on man!
Awesome! I farm in Nebraska but got a place on SD side of Big Stone Lake, good info here. Keeping our water clean, thanks guys, and the farmers that do the tiling
Well done. Good information for the non-farmer as to why the tile is needed.
Great video. Back in the 50's my dad worked for the Soil Conservation Service in So.Illinois. I can imagine him being all eyes and ears watching this video. Thanks for the great work folks.
Was born in Nashville and when dad got the job with SCS we moved to Belleville.
bobfidy Schorfheide do you know Brent Schorfheide
Brayden...send me a message on Facebook messenger...please.
bobfidy Schorfheide why?
We can chat there and not hijack this TH-cam.
Such a great video, it was really nice of them to give you that kind of access. Thank you farmers for being great stewards of the land. Hope you’re ready for this channel to blow up!
I'm hoping!!
Great videos! Many people will get a great education on farming, especially the young ones. Most of my family members were into farming while I was going up. here in the south. Man, it has come along way since the 50s-80s. Keep up the great work on feeding the world.
Oh ya, Go Falcons!
This video played just after I watched the one about the star tribune article. Glad you explained how tile works underground. Good video!
How the hell could 61 people hate this vid... Very informative and educational... Thanx Zach
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Really interesting with some great explanations.
MrDastram Thank you for watching!
I learn something new everytime I watch this guy👍
Excellent. Truly outstanding!! Todd Wickerly of Wickerly Farms over right outside of Hurdsfield North Dakota did to 29, 689 acres the last 2 years. I ran one of 5 trenchers night and day. My God My God. I loved it as much as I do pulling grain buggy.
With one of 6 of the Cat Challenger 900 E series Tractors. 600 HP articulates
Excellent video, helps explain about the need for tile and water ways. Prior to 1980, every field had a water way of some sort in it. Then equipment got big and farmers got lazy and just worked them up. I live in north central Ohio and now I see water ways being put back in fields like they should be. Great video, thx..
Drain tile is amazing! My yields improve because of it, excess water in the soil causes a lot of problems, great video Zack
When I got back home from being up at Lyle (a few wears back) I told people it was 5 feet thick and black as coal. I think I nailed it. Gracious you got some good dirt,Zach!
57fitter I never realized it until everyone pointed it out in this video. I guess I've always taken it for granted!
@@MillennialFarmer In Germany our drain tiles was built by hand in the 19th century and for the new drain tiles we have something like a plough which is pulled by a tractor and it rip up the ground to put the tile in it
I haven't even started the video yet and I'm already exited to learn how tiles are put in
Thanks for the great video Zach! Tiling has sure come a long ways. I barely remember my Grandpa putting in tile in the 1960's but I remember the red drainage tile.
John Muir We still have some of that old clay tile under a lot of our spots.
It was a miracle in it's day. Today it's just common sense. It drained a lot of wetlands unfortunately, but farming is about feeding people. I've lived in Africa with people who literally owned the clothes on their back and the bowl in their hand. And in that bowl was American corn. You are doing tremendous work Zach. Education is the key to the door of understanding. So proud of you!
You should go back this year after a rain to show how this system has changed the farm. A before and after.
So I finally got this explained. I watched same type of job in Holland but there they put down a lot of filt tubes going up and down and up and down across the field. I thought it was to reduce the amount of water in the soil. But now I see it could have something to do with erosion too.
Great video! Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to do a great service for the Ag industry!
Impressive project. So much topsoil before reaching clay.... So much different than many other places.
Rightsideofthegrass I didn't even notice it until everyone started pointing it out!
Very informative! I hope many non farmers watch this video to learn farmers are trying to help the environment not hurt it! Great video as always!!!
Warm regards from Alberta from a grateful subscriber ... it's not so much the slight acreage gained, it is much more that it makes the entire parcel more farmable, being able to cross and farm across that draw for the next 50 years makes the entire parcel more farmable and valuable. imho.
Awesome video! Awesome new logo!! It was great to see this video. It explains what a large farmer around here did. His land is very close to a creek and I wondered what they did and the purpose. NOW I KNOW!! Thanks and keep up these great videos.
That was a terrific and informative video. Thanks to Randy and the crew and awesome equipment. And of course, to the videographer and interviewer par excellence.
I don’t know if you will see my comment ,but back in the late 1940’s and early’50s my dad and a crew of migrant workers tiled 245 acres of our farm by hand. Shovels, string levels and backs‼️ And now some of the best potato growing land in the north east is big industrial parks and housing developments ‼️ I truly miss it ‼️
I see by the date this video was made nearly a year ago. Very interesting, Zach, we here in Mi. don't have a lot of problem with erosion, but we do use a lot of drain tile. Nearly every time a farm is sold now days, will be grid tiled, every 40'. Having been brought up behind a tiling machine, and having one for every year of my life on the farm. I really enjoyed this memory, Thanks!
I'm not a farmer, so this is really interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing this.
whimsicalwood Thanks for watching!
WOW...WISH WE HAD THAT DEPTH OF TOP SOIL.
don stefanik their soils are even heavier than ours. They do a TON of tiling.
Great camera work and explaining how the system works. Thanks for sharing
In Norway we lay the tile pipe(4.5 inch) 6-8 m apart(18-24 ft) over the whole field, into 6 inch pipe in the ends.
Great video!!!! Thumbs up. Just a thought NBC needs new morning show host. You should send resume in. Thank you to Big Stone for answering questions and video taping.
wow! We have farmers in Delaware who would kill for some of your black soil. We are extremely sandy. Being within 3-10 miles from the Delaware Bay. The marsh lands extend 3- 6 miles inland in many spots along our coast. Making it difficult to control run off from the fields. The use of hedge rows, tax ditches, and buried drains helps us some. We had a combine sit out in the field all winter near us (8 mi inland) because the field looked solid and was only frozen a few inches deep. He got 50 ft off the road and it fell in up the front axles. Sure hate to see a big piece of equipment like that have to sit without cover all winter. He will have rust everywhere in the bin, auger, pick up, etc. You are fortunate to have the big sheds and rubber tracked track tractor. Good video. I will be going back to look at the earlier ones, a far as I can. Keep on plugg'n.
buffer zones work amazing
Andrew Hanson this flows a large amount of acres, I explained why a buffer wasn't really an option for this project. Buffers can work well in the correct situations, but they're not "1 size fits all"
Nice one. Nothing like tiled ground. Best land investment you can make in my opinion.
Seems like a win-win! And for $44K, a relatively cheap, high-impact conservation project.
I wondered why so many Farmers were putting in Tile ,now I know Thanks!
Very Interesting, It`s good to see how you guys deal with wet land basically it same systems the only thing we do in the UK is we tend to cover the pipe with 1/2 - 3/4 inch clean gravel or pea gravel.
brian throup doesn’t look like they have the clay we have over maybe that’s why they don’t bother with gravel
@@spencermoss5528Yes noticed that, Did notice in places they have quite a depth of top soil, In the Greater Republic of North Yorkshire we have less than 6 inches on some fields
Not that long ago when I subscribed you only had 10,000 subs, crongrats on the amazing growth
Tim Hurkmans Thank you! It's been a wild fall!
Hopefully you'll pass Ryan
Jeremy Freeman that’d be awesome
Started watching your videos a couple weeks ago. Very good videos, a lot of farming channels is mostly music and drone footage. Yours are better because it's about teaching and information. Your love of land and farming really shows through!
This is one of the most interesting videos , yet!! How many feet of tile did they end up placing? How much additional yield do you hope to get? And how many headaches have been alleviated? Thanks for posting this video
I enjoy watching your videos and find them interesting. I was wondering if you could revisit this field this next summer to show the difference that the basins and drain tile have done. Would be going into the second year of being done and would be nice to see the progress.
Holy crap that's some rich looking soil!
Nice video. A lot of information on how and why farmers use tile.
Very cool video, thanks for that. Hey, have you done any documentaries before lol! You're a natural. Happy new year
Good video it explains why farmers do what they do and why.
Zach. Very Very good video. Learned something today.
WW 1982 Awesome, thank you!
I believe this is the First video with the Logo!!
Informative and entertaining as always. Keep it up!
Consider yourself fortunate. Most things like that done in Iowa that are cost shared require a waterway to be put in also. So you end up losing a little farm ground in the end.
Very well done!! You can tell they know what they are doing.
I would imagine the time saved going around that ditch makes it worthwhile!
Thanks for helping us to understand drain tile
They are gonna gain a better yield in a less wet field! Save from getting stuck also.
Great video, I was against tiling but after this I understand it better. I am duck and pheasant hunter, and always thought of tiling as draining habitat. BTW MPL needs to smear a little mud on his vest so it looks like he does more than sit in tile plow all day!
This drain tile stuff needs about 635,000 more views to hit a million views and all of them need to subscribe. This is real life improvement. Like and share the hell out of this video and all farming videos for that matter so we can help these farmers create some income to get better equipment and we can learn and be entertained. We also like to eat......so......yeah......that is important.
Really cool stuff, Always wondered how it all worked. Thanks.
The new logo looks great! Your channel is really takin' off....Congrats!
An excellent video which makes a big and largely successful stab at explaining a complicated subject - well done. Just remember you are talking and explaining to a largely, but not exclusively, American audience where the issues regarding land drainage may be somewhat different.
For example in Europe for a rain storm to dump 3.85 inches in one hit even in a 10 yr time span is virtually unheard of let alone experienced - that amount in a month would be considered a lot! (with an annual rainfall [inc snow] of approx 30").
Soil erosion by water movement does occur but is not a common sight at all except on very light sandy soils on slopes, whereas water logging is very common indeed especially in the more Western parts of Europe where we have a climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. The further East and South you travel the hotter and drier is the climate.
Dan Whiteford way over my head!
Master piper layer 😆. Great video very informative. Keep up the great work.
Thought he was talking to me for a second ....
Talking to who
Thanks for video. Enjoyed explanation on how drainage tile works. Living next to Ohio River you can see how muddy the river is from erosion. No big rocks to pick up. I wonder why you do not have a rock crusher to break down the stones and put in you driveway.. Later.
Fascinating! Thanks very much for this video - a real eye opener for me.
This is absolutely fascinating, thanks for a great video!
Amazing video again. Y'alls farms dwarf the NC dairys and every type we have. I learn something new every time. Have you ever thought of linking up with wounded warrior project. A soldier/veteran would love to spend a day and learn about all you do. It's amazing how hard y'all work 7 days a week. Keep up the good work brother.... ( crick ) haha love it man.
The new logo is great. And love the video keep them coming
Great video and well explained. Could you offer some insight as to why people would find this practice a bad thing to do? Seems like everyone would be on board with it.
Loved the video. So informative. Sharp new logo. Whoever gave that thumbs down to this is a idiot. Keep up the good work.
We just did a 20' deep sock tile well in Appleton MN
Look up dewind dewatering on TH-cam and you'll see the machine we use it's a glorified inter drain
Interesting - I've always wondered about the tile process for fields. Thanks for sharing.
I know this is 2 years old and I may not get a response but I'm curious if you've revisited that location and spoken with the farmer to see if the project was a success? THANKS.
Yes this interesting and I’m also wondering what the outcome of this job has been
Great Video; hope you are having a safe and great holiday. Also I love the intro.
Hey Zach...I enjoy watching your channel. You do a nice job both with the farming as well as the filming and vid production. Was wondering if you would consider listing the camera equipment and accessories you use. I like the quality. Keep up the good work. From farm country in SW Indiana
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Most of my videos are made with a gopro hero 5 black, but the audio is not good in a lot of situations. This was the first video where I used a Canon G7X for most of it. The action shots are still with the gopro, and the drone video is with a DJI Phantom 3 Pro.
LE LDE one huge thing that helps me with the gopro is a magnetic mount. It's so convenient because there's always somewhere to put it and I can move it around so easily.
Only understood about 5% of what they were talking about thru the whole video - especially around the 13:30 mark when Zack starts talking about nitrates and phosphorus (Zack, you're a smart dude!) - but so mesmerized by them installing the tile I watched the entire thing. Just found this channel and I'm pretty sure there's going to be some MN Millennial Farmer videos binge watching tonight. Thanks Zack. Happy 4th of July 2019!
Congrats on 30,000 subscriber's!!
jeremy the cool thank you!
flyhound97 what???
flyhound97 would you rather me put congrats on 30,000 subscriber's?
flyhound97 it's my stupid auto correct and stuff
jeremy the cool I
Sure interesting to see how your videos have progressed from this one to current times.
Fascinating & really well explained!
ajadrew thank you!!
This is very neat shit, I'm addicted to your vids there very informative!!!! Good work
That was an awesome video. Thank for sharing
I am infinitely jealous of that soil
Awesome video. Great work!
I have used that style pipe and have had issues with the pipe going oval and in one area it was crushed by heavy trailers. hope you have better luck with it
Great job on the camera angles! Congrats on 30k
We do these all the time, very good way to save you soil. Have a few videos under Alan Pearce.
Excellent video and really good explanation.
By farming thru those runs your also saving a heap on over lap on your headlands along th run.
Farming Hacker for sure
Not to mention thrashing all those short rows. Keep the big eater full loose less out the back
The soil is very heavy up there in MN looks like a peat top with a lack clay base not free flowing at all and would hold alot of water. This reminds me of a peat bog field here in Ireland in the midlands of our country. What we use in such soil is a herring bone type of drainage to drain as much water as possible from the soil.
In my job, I provide funding to municipalities to install water, sewer and storm sewer systems. The hydraulic load of the pipes are designed essentially the same way as you described. Storm Sewer is designed on 3, 5, 10 or 100 yr rain fall events. I helped out the city of Graceville just down the road with their utility project.
Kevin Friesen Awesome!! It's interesting stuff. I probably should have mentioned more about how this is basically a rural storm system.
I am curious, are the basins at the beginning or the end of the tile runs. By this I, mean are they designed to hold water and slowly feed the tile or are they at the end of the tile to catch the water and drain into a nearby creek or river. On storm drains for municipalities, MPCA is requiring a "settlement" pond for storm sewer that is drained from city streets. This prevents the grit and debris from entering the receiving creek/river. All of this is being driven on "impaired" water ways that eventually lead to the Mississippi river delta south of New Orleans. One of my current projects is currently installing 72" storm sewer pipe that is made at the Hancock plant. That is some big stuff....
Very interesting, keep up the great work. But don’t forget to take time to enjoy those kids, they grow up fast.
Cool video. Very interesting. Would like a video when there is a big rain event just to see it all working.
Happy Hunter that video could get a little tricky!!
Very nice video thank you for sharing it had lots of cool information in it
Joe Roberts Thank you!
I learned so much in this video thank you for presenting it. The machines we're awsome I thought the price was a bit low for the amount of work done. Great for the farmer and for us great job guys