Guess what? We have no ground water so we cannot drill wells for our homes! I know bummer right? But we do have good water from our nearby town so we must run underground water lines and cisterns in order to have enough water pressure for the future homes. Thanks for watching!
you should have added a fiber-optic line to the main farm while you had had the chance... Love seeing raw horse power at work awesome camera shots, I enjoy watching your farm videos.
If they were pumping gas out of that ground at some point? Chances are there was ground water underneath. It's probably far too deep to drill and pump economically. Or is it?
I know you guys are done with this project, but if you need to be in a trench like that again use some shoring, or dig that area in lifts. Trenches collapsing will kill faster than you can dig someone out. Enjoy your content, and want to continue to watch, just be careful. God bless!
This is marvellous. What a solution to the famin in Southern Madegascar if such an array would bring water to the bone dry fields and prevent a famine .
Your showing folks that’s it’s safe to get in a trench without shoring (protection). I can’t tell you how dangerous it is for you to be that deep without a box. Love your content, just want y’all to be safe and make more videos, god bless.
Agree, all that clay has to do is dry a little and then it will collapse from the bottom up and you won’t be able to remove yourself with 3’ of dirt on top you. Be more careful and lay the banks back.
On the one hand will agree with you Brad; never safe to get in a trench deeper than your waist line without a trench box and people should not get into that habit. In this case with virgin hard pack clay; there was very low to no risk; unlike working in sandy soils where it would be crazy not to use a trench box . Today, there are so many different types of trench boxes and some are light weight, easy to move in the trench, and even reasonable in price compared to the big old bulky and heavy trench boxes.
Just want to say even in clay use a trench box one can rent one. Cheep insurance so that child, husband and dad gets home alive we had a guy that was in a trench and didn't make it home ever that was his last day ever hard to deal with as a coworker that you'll never see again it just is not worth it.
Great job guys! Hard dry ground stays where it should 87% of the time. You really need to have a box when you are working in that deep of a trench. Dad was showing you guys how to do it right again! Keep on farming!
Don't count yourselves short you guys have some really amazing talent in building stuff in your shop and on your farm I really enjoy watching you guys and I know God is going to bless you immensely.
Great engineering job of the pipe layer and the power of BIG BUD AND STEIGER. just imagine the hard work to do the job in the old days. Good luck in the future homesteads.
when i was a kid we borrowed my uncles wily jeep with a ditch digger added on and ran about a mile of pvc pipe for my grandfather to his new farm from our town in northern oklahoma and then in the late 70s my dad bought a farm and we had to run water line from the south end (where the water well was drilled) with a tricycle style ditch digger course we only went down about 3 ft in sand(some DEEP sand) (from down under the old windmill that had an old sand point )) to the north end of the half section (a mile away) where the barn and main corrals were built later and i moved in my trailer house after i came back from college. Still use use it and have added several side runs to put 30ft stock tanks in for the cattle. so far (knock on wood) only a couple of leaks mostly from gophers chewing on some poly pipe we used for short runs. YOU will never regret putting in your water system!!! i have a brother n law that hauled water by truck for their water and wore out 2 trucks and a pu doing it
we have used that pipe melting system in the Canadian North in -40 temps it blows my mind that it works but we testted it with 2 cats and the welds never broke the pipe split other places we used it for 4 to 8 inch pipe
That's a Line Tamer, it reshapes the polypipe to round and takes the bow out. One word ; SHORING Please work safe your families are counting on you both boy's.
As someone who works in the utility excavation industry for over 20 years, I cringe at unsafe work practices like what I see here. I enjoy all of your videos and I thank you for sharing your experiences and your faith. Please keep it safe. We don't want to hear about any tragedy from you. God bless.
I understand the shoring comment's but, that soil is super stable....the soil is extremely hard and does not move. It's more than likely hard enough you could not shove a screw driver into the trench wall far enough to hold its own weight. I have ditch banks in similar soils that are 8 feet tall and have not sluffed off in years
superbe vidéo, ces deux monstres s'en donnent à cœur joie de tirer comme ça👌👍 Votre technique de soudage des tuyau est très simple , en France on met des accessoires ,manchons ou Tes thermosoudables qui demandent une mise en œuvre plus longue et contraignante, bravo
BROTHERS????? unless it's just a show for the camera which I doubt, you two men are best friends! I wish me and my brother were that close. Another amazing and educational video my friend.
Your comment regarding the heat welders joint of the polly pipe is spot on. We have laid a few hundred miles of 63 ml (slightly bigger than 2 inch) and weld all our joins in a similar way as you. The two ends fuse together and become the one piece of pipe, there is no join. Like you we rip the line first and then feed the poly through a layer similar to yours but no where as big. We only have to put it in one to two feet as we don't have the worry of frost and freezing like you do. Our laying machine is a Cat D11 Dozer, Thanks again for a most interesting video. From Down Under.
Like many projects/endeavors - by the time you get things dialed in perfectly, you are done! But it's great if you ever need to do it again - experience is the best teacher!
Always call for a Undérground Lookup! My Nephew is why Digalert is there! Ask around, Rick Bergman was a Southern California Gas welder, and Glendale Power didn't think they needed to tell about a high voltage feeder, and they bored into it. Closed Casket.
I moved from Wyoming to California and worked for a company that built power plants. I was taught how to put pc pipe together just like what you guys did in this video. That brought back memories to me. We were laying 8 in. pipe.
This whole series has been awesome! Glad Case IH let you use the tractor dir this job. We use Case on our farm because they pull and keep pulling. Keep up the great work!!!
I enjoy all your content but this series was really good. Thanks for showing what a "little" power, hard work and ingenuity can accomplish. Great Job to all! The combo of the Big Bud and the Steiger was something special to watch.
Fan from the TwinCities. I don't get to see stuff like this and I'm in construction. Well if I wasn't busy doing my work I might see something similar. Anyway. Love the Giant tractors and big open sky. Thanks for filming and explaining! .
I'M A PIPPING ENGINEER AND ONE PROJECT WE INSTALLED A 24 INCH DIAMETER LINE WITH A HALF INCH WALL THAT REQUIRED A LARGE TRAILER WITH THE HOT PLATE JOINER.
Well done Nick Scot & of course Mr Bob, that was a brilliant bit of pipe joining,pipe laying,you know the best Engineers are Farmers self made self taught, I love all the gear you have used, I think Nick any one watching your videos will learn a lot how to do things on the Farm,Bute work fellows, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.
I learned in the mid 1970’s that there is nothing farmer ingenuity can’t handle. Thanks to Vic, Phons, Eldon and Dean for helping this 1958 born city boy learn to be farmer smart and tenacious!
Remember when working in ditches that areas that have been disturbed before are not as stable and more likely to cave in. As leg arms found out with the drawbar it only takes a second to change your life
@@gertskjlstrup1804 that and cuts circulation off to limbs and you will die from that or loose those limbs trying to save your life. For those of us unfortunate enough to witness an entrapment, you won’t forget it. It takes a few extra min to bench or slope and make sure your spoils are far enough away from the ditch where something doesn’t roll off and hurt you. It’s better then watching someone slowly suffer and die.
Yeah, my thoughts too. I used to work in pipeline trenches and had a few scares. Nothing nearly this narrow, though. Be careful, everyone. Your families depend on you.
So over here in Iowa me and my dad actually do tile trench’s for part of living and we run tracks on the tile plow tractor and pull with a wheel tractor
I understand this is for potable water that you are buying from the utility for household / domestic use. The question is are dugouts commonly employed for yard irrigation and non potable purposes in Montana? In western Canada the majority of farms would employ a dugout in a strategic location to trap snow melt to provide their yards with water throughout the summer. Your can do attitude is impressive. Keep up the good work.
That’s a whole lot of pipe you all just laid underground. It’s good you figured out the ripper angle thing and that it made the pull go that much easier. Looking forward to the progress on your home building projects. Whenever you get to the point that the building structures are being built, and if it’s not a secret, how about including a layout picture so we can understand the building as it’s constructed. Many people get ideas for their own structures by seeing out how someone else did something.
Seeing these amazing guys on camera for the first time since finally meeting them makes me super happy! I think to myself "hey, I know them". Great work guys and thanks for coming to the FFA national trip to Indy and thanks for signing by new cowboy hat! -Brian
Awesome job getting all your pipe laid. Please in the future get a cage for the trench pit if you are going in the trench or dig the top back 10 feet or so. It is more work but trust me if you have to dig a loved one out of a cave in you will never forget it. Please be safer in the pit, love you guys and would be gutted to here of any incidence. I hope you had a great time at the FFA convention, it is awesome you take time from your family and farm to show the farm family love to the young future farmers of the world. Also thank you for all the extra effort you put in for the videos we get to see. Stay safe and healthy. Hug your new baby, they do not stay little long.
It probably gets lost on most of us how much fuel you guys have to burn to make these long runs. Lots of HP and you have the way to get it done. Great project.
I watched your last video about you jumping in the trench and I kind of like scares me because I'm classic phobic and I sure hate to have a lot of dirt come down on top of my head so good thing you only had to do that once keep up the good work 🙂
Good job guys, I believe those two tractors enjoyed getting worked hard. The Steiger is an awesome tractor but the Big Bud is even more so. Just something about that tractor makes it special.
Forty years ago we did what your doing without any wall brace and did fine. Last month a local farmer/rancher had the trench wall cave in on him. Broken collarbone and other bruises . You just never know.
Our new farm got tiling in the middle 1970’s. My dad was running a tractor, pull type chopper and forage wagon chopping corn and one day he went too fast crossing one of the humps from where tile had been installed and the loaded forage wagon tipped over. My brothers had to manually empty the wagon. To upright the wagon they had some tractors back to back with chain running over the top. My dad said that what they were doing was very dangerous and I wasn’t allowed to be there. My dad wasn’t religious at that time but my mom had several people in her church praying for the safety of uprighting the wagon. After it was done my dad came into the house with a look of disbelief on his face. He walked right up to my mom and said that the wagon lifted like it was on a cloud.
Very cool plow for sure. I have used smaller vibratory style plows and have ran into everything from boulders to engine blocks and it does suck if you have the pipe on.
I work in the water distribution industry and in the area i work in we have an area that utilizes the plastic welds on 4" line like what yall have here. My experience so far when we have a leak in this area its 95% of the time where these welds are 😐. As I mentioned before we have 4" line where you are using 2" so there will be more pressure on your welds than what is on ours, so potentially a better chance for a blowout. As there are not many options for a solution i would highly recommend marking where all weld joints are in the line so if/when there is a leak it will be easier to locate. On the bright side if it were to leak the welds are really easy to break away from the pipe and repair with a clamp or a couple Hymax's and short piece of pipe.👍
Ok do this stuff for a living but i jest got to give you guys a little carp on that fuse you put some good lips on that pipe lol but no you guys did a amazing job keep up the good work
After watching you guys and Fast and Zach and Dougo/Chet and Mike Mitchell and The Cole’s and Andy and Trevor I think I know how to farm. Thanks guys!!!
Another cheap old trick is to lay straw down by the line about a foot on all sides so when you dig it up in the future you'll see a black layer about 2-3" before you get to the line. Also adds some cushion right near the line from rocks.
Polly welding is so satisfying. Used to work for an irrigation company and would use it for 600mm lines, our systems have pressure monitors on them to push them together at ther right pressure. Never used it for 2 inch pipes. 🇺🇸 🇦🇺
How is this different from most of the world? All countries I know of would have no issues with this. Obviously the same permits for crossing roads, gas lines and connecting to mains, as well as reporting where the pipe is being placed as the Welkers have to do. I hope most Americans don't think this is something special for The US. Actually, a few countries would not even have any permits, but I am not sure that is for the better. One mans freedom is often another mans lack of freedom. I.e, before smoking bans indoors, people with severe allergies where not able to go to restaurants where smoking was allowed. I wish most people could see that as a problem.
Hey guy’s over here in the UK when we try to do the same sort of thing, it’s not quite as simple most of the time. As we are digging the trench we either come across Stone age Roman settlement Bronze age Iron age, witch means we have to stop work get in touch with the right archeological team stop for as long as they say, witch can be up to a month or so then start again
People talking about trench cave ins, I understand the concern but look at the soil structure. If you have ground disturbance course you can see it’s a stable soil. I want to know how is it that warm to be ripping in a t shirt on October. It’s barely above freezing here as daytime highs. In sask.
Those clamps are line up clamps. In order for the heat fusion to Weld properly those two end pieces need to line up perfectly. Then the ends of the pipe needs to reemed perfectly as well.so the they fuse right. Do this all the time with PE pipe.
Guess what? We have no ground water so we cannot drill wells for our homes! I know bummer right? But we do have good water from our nearby town so we must run underground water lines and cisterns in order to have enough water pressure for the future homes.
Thanks for watching!
you should have added a fiber-optic line to the main farm while you had had the chance... Love seeing raw horse power at work awesome camera shots, I enjoy watching your farm videos.
thank you for making your videos
I never knew that til your dad responded to my comment! Ty for being awesome at answering questions and for being righteous upstanding men!
Thank you for explaining.
If they were pumping gas out of that ground at some point? Chances are there was ground water underneath. It's probably far too deep to drill and pump economically. Or is it?
I know you guys are done with this project, but if you need to be in a trench like that again use some shoring, or dig that area in lifts. Trenches collapsing will kill faster than you can dig someone out. Enjoy your content, and want to continue to watch, just be careful. God bless!
I was shocked when I saw the lack of trench safety.
Totally agree. There are a lot of safety sally moments on TH-cam, but this is not one of them.
You guys have never experienced Montana dirt have you… lol. It don’t collapse, in fact it’s almost impossible to even dig in by hand…
Be safe out there boys loosing an arm or finger is one thing but a life can't be replaced
@@danieljohnston5306 complacency doesn't mean it's safe.
Get video guys! You are so blessed to have your Dad, he's right there with the both of you every step! That's a testament to what a good man he is!
AMEN !
Don't forget the Big Boss Supervisor Coby!
This is marvellous. What a solution to the famin in Southern Madegascar if such an array would bring water to the bone dry fields and prevent a famine .
Your showing folks that’s it’s safe to get in a trench without shoring (protection). I can’t tell you how dangerous it is for you to be that deep without a box. Love your content, just want y’all to be safe and make more videos, god bless.
Agree, all that clay has to do is dry a little and then it will collapse from the bottom up and you won’t be able to remove yourself with 3’ of dirt on top you. Be more careful and lay the banks back.
On the one hand will agree with you Brad; never safe to get in a trench deeper than your waist line without a trench box and people should not get into that habit. In this case with virgin hard pack clay; there was very low to no risk; unlike working in sandy soils where it would be crazy not to use a trench box . Today, there are so many different types of trench boxes and some are light weight, easy to move in the trench, and even reasonable in price compared to the big old bulky and heavy trench boxes.
I was thinking, where's the trench box?
Just want to say even in clay use a trench box one can rent one. Cheep insurance so that child, husband and dad gets home alive we had a guy that was in a trench and didn't make it home ever that was his last day ever hard to deal with as a coworker that you'll never see again it just is not worth it.
It all depends on the soil type.
I'm shocked that Bob didn't find the start of this video to be boring.... Maybe I should save my shock for the power line puns.
Great job guys! Hard dry ground stays where it should 87% of the time. You really need to have a box when you are working in that deep of a trench. Dad was showing you guys how to do it right again! Keep on farming!
Don't count yourselves short you guys have some really amazing talent in building stuff in your shop and on your farm I really enjoy watching you guys and I know God is going to bless you immensely.
Welker farm awesome getting to see u guys in indy even tho didn't get to talk but was awesome seeing you guys show up to are FFA convention
One of the best series of vids on the Tube this year, brilliant seeing those machines work hard. 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇬🇧
So excited and happy for yall! Thanks for taking us along! God bless you all and be safe and well!
Great engineering job of the pipe layer and the power of BIG BUD AND STEIGER. just imagine the hard work to do the job in the old days. Good luck in the future homesteads.
when i was a kid we borrowed my uncles wily jeep with a ditch digger added on and ran about a mile of pvc pipe for my grandfather to his new farm from our town in northern oklahoma and then in the late 70s my dad bought a farm and we had to run water line from the south end (where the water well was drilled) with a tricycle style ditch digger course we only went down about 3 ft in sand(some DEEP sand) (from down under the old windmill that had an old sand point )) to the north end of the half section (a mile away) where the barn and main corrals were built later and i moved in my trailer house after i came back from college. Still use use it and have added several side runs to put 30ft stock tanks in for the cattle. so far (knock on wood) only a couple of leaks mostly from gophers chewing on some poly pipe we used for short runs. YOU will never regret putting in your water system!!! i have a brother n law that hauled water by truck for their water and wore out 2 trucks and a pu doing it
we have used that pipe melting system in the Canadian North in -40 temps it blows my mind that it works but we testted it with 2 cats and the welds never broke the pipe split other places
we used it for 4 to 8 inch pipe
I believe you sir, but its still anti-intuitive
@@billsargent3407 what are you going on about
I love the Stieger tractors. Love the Big Bods too. You guys have the coolest tractors ever maDE.
Great series molin these pipes in an a big thanks to the neighbours lendin u their ripper 👌 an don't forget Case IH 💪💪👍🏴
Good to see family work together that good
What an amazing machine that pipe layer is very impressive
Nice job, thanks for doing your part to feed this great country.
Glad to see Harry's inventions still being used. I think about him now and then and it makes me glad to see connections to him.
He was a master mechanic, inventor, and all around great guy. I was blessed to know him.
@@mtcelticharper Was that the older man that made the little toy Buds we seen in an early video i can remember?
That's a Line Tamer, it reshapes the polypipe to round and takes the bow out.
One word ; SHORING
Please work safe your families are counting on you both boy's.
That was scary watching Mr Welker walking over those pits but if anyone would know the stability of that ground it should be him
As someone who works in the utility excavation industry for over 20 years, I cringe at unsafe work practices like what I see here. I enjoy all of your videos and I thank you for sharing your experiences and your faith. Please keep it safe. We don't want to hear about any tragedy from you. God bless.
@Steve Bean
Yah, in my 47 years in the pipeline industry I've known plenty of folk who thought that.
Their all dead now,.
Great long term fan. Your work ethic and creativity is to be applauded. First class family. Kudos to Randy as well!
CURL REMOVER!?!? That's awesome
Awesome video Welkers!!!!!!!!
You guys have saved so so much money doing this yourselves. 🤜🤛🤜🤛🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Interesting to watch fellers 👍👍
I understand the shoring comment's but, that soil is super stable....the soil is extremely hard and does not move.
It's more than likely hard enough you could not shove a screw driver into the trench wall far enough to hold its own weight.
I have ditch banks in similar soils that are 8 feet tall and have not sluffed off in years
Thank you for reasonable comment. You bet, there would be ditches i wouldn't go unto. I wasn't concerned with these cemented soils
superbe vidéo, ces deux monstres s'en donnent à cœur joie de tirer comme ça👌👍
Votre technique de soudage des tuyau est très simple , en France on met des accessoires ,manchons ou Tes thermosoudables qui demandent une mise en œuvre plus longue et contraignante, bravo
BROTHERS????? unless it's just a show for the camera which I doubt, you two men are best friends! I wish me and my brother were that close. Another amazing and educational video my friend.
Your comment regarding the heat welders joint of the polly pipe is spot on.
We have laid a few hundred miles of 63 ml (slightly bigger than 2 inch) and weld all our joins in a similar way as you. The two ends fuse together and become the one piece of pipe, there is no join. Like you we rip the line first and then feed the poly through a layer similar to yours but no where as big. We only have to put it in one to two feet as we don't have the worry of frost and freezing like you do. Our laying machine is a Cat D11 Dozer, Thanks again for a most interesting video. From Down Under.
I know I said it once but I’m gonna say it again. That is the coolest thing I have ever seen. God bless and stay safe
Nice video, enjoyed it !
Love the way you proudly display our flag. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks !
Nick its called live and learn 😉👍 god bless 💕🙏
Your homemade horizontal borer was impressive!
excellent series! I hope everyone watching gains a greater appreciation for our farmers and their hard work!
The old Bud rollin' coal in the blue Montana skies. Don't get much better.
Like many projects/endeavors - by the time you get things dialed in perfectly, you are done! But it's great if you ever need to do it again - experience is the best teacher!
Always call for a Undérground Lookup! My Nephew is why Digalert is there! Ask around, Rick Bergman was a Southern California Gas welder, and Glendale Power didn't think they needed to tell about a high voltage feeder, and they bored into it. Closed Casket.
I moved from Wyoming to California and worked for a company that built power plants. I was taught how to put pc pipe together just like what you guys did in this video. That brought back memories to me. We were laying 8 in. pipe.
This whole series has been awesome! Glad Case IH let you use the tractor dir this job. We use Case on our farm because they pull and keep pulling. Keep up the great work!!!
I enjoy all your content but this series was really good. Thanks for showing what a "little" power, hard work and ingenuity can accomplish. Great Job to all! The combo of the Big Bud and the Steiger was something special to watch.
Fan from the TwinCities. I don't get to see stuff like this and I'm in construction. Well if I wasn't busy doing my work I might see something similar.
Anyway. Love the Giant tractors and big open sky. Thanks for filming and explaining!
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Well i have to say good content I have come from watching the Millennial farmer .. you have one more sub keep up the good work!
Awesome thank you! Be careful that millennial farmer is a handful! 😂
I'M A PIPPING ENGINEER AND ONE PROJECT WE INSTALLED A 24 INCH DIAMETER LINE WITH A HALF INCH WALL THAT REQUIRED A LARGE TRAILER WITH THE HOT PLATE JOINER.
Well done Nick Scot & of course Mr Bob, that was a brilliant bit of pipe joining,pipe laying,you know the best Engineers are Farmers self made self taught, I love all the gear you have used, I think Nick any one watching your videos will learn a lot how to do things on the Farm,Bute work fellows, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia.
Hook your poly on to your drill bit when you pull it back.
I learned in the mid 1970’s that there is nothing farmer ingenuity can’t handle. Thanks to Vic, Phons, Eldon and Dean for helping this 1958 born city boy learn to be farmer smart and tenacious!
Really cool to see your family all working together for your future homes, thank you for all your videos
Wondering why you didn't put in shutoff valves at the "T" junctions....
I did the same.
Because the flow is only turned on for filling cisterns, and it's only 15 lbs when on. Valves are at the other locations.
Remember when working in ditches that areas that have been disturbed before are not as stable and more likely to cave in. As leg arms found out with the drawbar it only takes a second to change your life
3 dead "proffessionel" people here in denmark over the past year. The problem is that the dirt will press your loungs so you cant breathe
@@gertskjlstrup1804 that and cuts circulation off to limbs and you will die from that or loose those limbs trying to save your life. For those of us unfortunate enough to witness an entrapment, you won’t forget it. It takes a few extra min to bench or slope and make sure your spoils are far enough away from the ditch where something doesn’t roll off and hurt you. It’s better then watching someone slowly suffer and die.
Your eyeballs pop out of your skull and your jaw dislocates trying to get air.
Not good.
Yeah, my thoughts too. I used to work in pipeline trenches and had a few scares. Nothing nearly this narrow, though. Be careful, everyone. Your families depend on you.
Awesomeness is the word of the day. Power extreme!😭😝
So over here in Iowa me and my dad actually do tile trench’s for part of living and we run tracks on the tile plow tractor and pull with a wheel tractor
I understand this is for potable water that you are buying from the utility for household / domestic use. The question is are dugouts commonly employed for yard irrigation and non potable purposes in Montana? In western Canada the majority of farms would employ a dugout in a strategic location to trap snow melt to provide their yards with water throughout the summer.
Your can do attitude is impressive. Keep up the good work.
That’s a whole lot of pipe you all just laid underground. It’s good you figured out the ripper angle thing and that it made the pull go that much easier. Looking forward to the progress on your home building projects. Whenever you get to the point that the building structures are being built, and if it’s not a secret, how about including a layout picture so we can understand the building as it’s constructed. Many people get ideas for their own structures by seeing out how someone else did something.
Seeing these amazing guys on camera for the first time since finally meeting them makes me super happy! I think to myself "hey, I know them". Great work guys and thanks for coming to the FFA national trip to Indy and thanks for signing by new cowboy hat! -Brian
Awesome job getting all your pipe laid. Please in the future get a cage for the trench pit if you are going in the trench or dig the top back 10 feet or so. It is more work but trust me if you have to dig a loved one out of a cave in you will never forget it. Please be safer in the pit, love you guys and would be gutted to here of any incidence. I hope you had a great time at the FFA convention, it is awesome you take time from your family and farm to show the farm family love to the young future farmers of the world. Also thank you for all the extra effort you put in for the videos we get to see. Stay safe and healthy. Hug your new baby, they do not stay little long.
It probably gets lost on most of us how much fuel you guys have to burn to make these long runs. Lots of HP and you have the way to get it done. Great project.
Awesome action. Old and new working together. Laying pipe.
I watched your last video about you jumping in the trench and I kind of like scares me because I'm classic phobic and I sure hate to have a lot of dirt come down on top of my head so good thing you only had to do that once keep up the good work 🙂
Good job guys, I believe those two tractors enjoyed getting worked hard. The Steiger is an awesome tractor but the Big Bud is even more so. Just something about that tractor makes it special.
That's pretty cool I see u have a ton of clay in that ground looks hard
It was like cement wall
Forty years ago we did what your doing without any wall brace and did fine. Last month a local farmer/rancher had the trench wall cave in on him. Broken collarbone and other bruises . You just never know.
That 6 foot depth seems to still have some moisture or did a rain soak the previous passes?
Top 2ft some moisture but below not much. But it is solid, couldn't use a shovel to dug into.
Good job well done will you be burning the electrical cable? Thanks for sharing
Yes
Did you put a wire in with that gas line for future line locating ?
Great job and video, all you Welkers! God Bless you all.
I've used one of those plastic welders on some 4 in line for fertilizer,I'll admit I wasn't sure about it. Now I'm sold on using it!!!
Our new farm got tiling in the middle 1970’s. My dad was running a tractor, pull type chopper and forage wagon chopping corn and one day he went too fast crossing one of the humps from where tile had been installed and the loaded forage wagon tipped over. My brothers had to manually empty the wagon. To upright the wagon they had some tractors back to back with chain running over the top. My dad said that what they were doing was very dangerous and I wasn’t allowed to be there. My dad wasn’t religious at that time but my mom had several people in her church praying for the safety of uprighting the wagon. After it was done my dad came into the house with a look of disbelief on his face. He walked right up to my mom and said that the wagon lifted like it was on a cloud.
OSHA’s in shock. A man in a naked trench. Great video. Imagine, a 60” frost line.
Holy Trench Safety, Batman!
Very cool plow for sure. I have used smaller vibratory style plows and have ran into everything from boulders to engine blocks and it does suck if you have the pipe on.
5:37 Bob holding a chain. One of the Giants of the Earth!
Nice line tamer ! Handy piece of equipment.
I work in the water distribution industry and in the area i work in we have an area that utilizes the plastic welds on 4" line like what yall have here. My experience so far when we have a leak in this area its 95% of the time where these welds are 😐. As I mentioned before we have 4" line where you are using 2" so there will be more pressure on your welds than what is on ours, so potentially a better chance for a blowout. As there are not many options for a solution i would highly recommend marking where all weld joints are in the line so if/when there is a leak it will be easier to locate. On the bright side if it were to leak the welds are really easy to break away from the pipe and repair with a clamp or a couple Hymax's and short piece of pipe.👍
With only 10 lbs pressure I doubt it. We get 10 gals per min flow out of 2 in
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob not much pressure to do anything with. 40psi is our lowest and it’s a nightmare
@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob hope it all works out for ya! Enjoy you and your families videos.
It's good to see those tractors pulling hard like that. I look forward to seeing the houses when they are finished.
Stinks no ground water but man what an operation, which I could have been there to witness. Good things will come I promise!
Is there anything you guys can't do? Don't think so, amazing talent. Both Steiger and Bud impressive machines.
Enjoyed
Ok do this stuff for a living but i jest got to give you guys a little carp on that fuse you put some good lips on that pipe lol but no you guys did a amazing job keep up the good work
I spent the last 10 years digging that stuff in, + power telephone, effluent systems. Lots of fun.
After watching you guys and Fast and Zach and Dougo/Chet and Mike Mitchell and The Cole’s and Andy and Trevor I think I know how to farm.
Thanks guys!!!
That is really cool getting the pipe in the ground. Great video!
I need your plans for the bore machine
Why didnt you all place a tracer line in with your conduit. Just in case you need to locate the line in the future
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Another cheap old trick is to lay straw down by the line about a foot on all sides so when you dig it up in the future you'll see a black layer about 2-3" before you get to the line. Also adds some cushion right near the line from rocks.
@@MrKovie1 you r right
I'm curious what soil type you have to trust the soil won't cave in on you when your down in the trench
Hello and thumbs UP !
Did you cover the trench before pressure testing and looking for leaks?
When laying pipe with a ripper there is no trench, we just hope and pray for no leaks. If there are we'll eventually find them and fix them.
one way to rip the day away Bob.
I should have said something on the ripper angle, it looked off to me. Glad you fixed it
Omg pleasssss make a video on just the engine on the Big Bud, I love Detroit diesels and I am looking for one to put into a case 930
Polly welding is so satisfying. Used to work for an irrigation company and would use it for 600mm lines, our systems have pressure monitors on them to push them together at ther right pressure. Never used it for 2 inch pipes. 🇺🇸 🇦🇺
Man the prices for water taps is crazy down here in the south!!! Good luck guys keep digging!!!👍👍👍
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This was a very cool project
This scenery and freedom is amazing (Greetings from the UK)
What a beautiful comment. Too many people here in the US don't appreciate what you just pointed out.
How is this different from most of the world? All countries I know of would have no issues with this. Obviously the same permits for crossing roads, gas lines and connecting to mains, as well as reporting where the pipe is being placed as the Welkers have to do. I hope most Americans don't think this is something special for The US.
Actually, a few countries would not even have any permits, but I am not sure that is for the better. One mans freedom is often another mans lack of freedom. I.e, before smoking bans indoors, people with severe allergies where not able to go to restaurants where smoking was allowed. I wish most people could see that as a problem.
Hey guy’s over here in the UK when we try to do the same sort of thing, it’s not quite as simple most of the time. As we are digging the trench we either come across Stone age Roman settlement Bronze age Iron age, witch means we have to stop work get in touch with the right archeological team stop for as long as they say, witch can be up to a month or so then start again
People talking about trench cave ins, I understand the concern but look at the soil structure. If you have ground disturbance course you can see it’s a stable soil. I want to know how is it that warm to be ripping in a t shirt on October. It’s barely above freezing here as daytime highs. In sask.
Thank you for noticing that concrete type clay
Congratulations guys... Glad to see ya got gas and water in...
Those clamps are line up clamps. In order for the heat fusion to Weld properly those two end pieces need to line up perfectly. Then the ends of the pipe needs to reemed perfectly as well.so the they fuse right. Do this all the time with PE pipe.
I think you guys have a lot of talent
They weld big poly pipe too. It's a pretty neat process.
Did you add any tracer wire?
Just imagine to do that work only with a spade and a shovel...😮
Nope, better not! 😉
Thanks a lot for the video!😊👍🏻