I work in an office most of the day, far removed from anything agricultural, but somehow i find this fascinating, just watched 50 minutes of enjoyable pipe laying !
Perhaps it may be easier to derive a sense of accomplishment from something immediately tangable as opposed to (making an assumption of you here, forgive me) something like a report or spreadsheet.
@@stedmanwheless5372 I would agree with that. I work as a portfolio manager trading on the stock market. While our work gets done very well, it's not the same as seeing something physical getting done as opposed to just some numbers on a screen.
@@stedmanwheless5372 Absolutely! There is also something really wholesome and rewarding about working with soil/plants/nature. Most of the farmers i have met have been well-grounded, well-adjusted individuals. Then again, i have not met that many...
Well, your comment at 39:50 oohhh do NOT underestimate the complete tosh I am prepared to watch!! 🙂 anything from art restoration, tool restoration to sucking out blocked house drains....I (and many others) will watch it..... 550K views cant be wrong. All hail the algorithm.
Watched this some months ago but found it so interesting that I came back again today. Found your place on google earth and looking at the past 30+ years I can see why you really needed to do this. Lots of water/wet areas in some years. I grew up in western Nebraska and worked on farms there in the summers but it was so dry there and not as flat as you are so tile wasn't something people needed to do. We were lucky to get 15 inches of precipitation a year and 7 or 8 was all we got some years. Thanks for taking the time to put this up. Best wishes for the new year.
Thanks for the nice comment, Marv. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. It is really neat to see how different the farming conditions are across the country, even if we grow some of the same crops. Best wishes!
@@aTrippyFarmer One of my hobbies is genealogy. Appears your family homesteaded there in the mid 1800s. Great that the farm is still in the family. Both my grandparents were farmers in Western Nebraska, but they lost out in the dust bowl days of the 1930s. One of my cousins still farms the place our great great grandparents homesteaded in Eastern Nebraska but none of his children are interested in farming, so the farm won't likely remain in the family very long after he passes. It appears love of farming is an inherited trait. When we get back to Nebraska, we still visit the farm family I worked for 60 years ago. Sadly, he passed recently. And none of his kids are interested in farming so that tradition will end with him.
@@marv1405 it is fun to think about the history of the farm, but it only takes one series of bad luck or distinerest from the next generation to end the lineage of a farm. That seems to just be the nature of life. There are many farms that grow stronger by the day, and others that continuously decay away. It is very hard for outsiders to grasp how farming is much more than an occupation-it is a way of life. You are correct about our history. We actually have deep roots. If you go to the Illinois sesquicentennial farm lookup, you can see that the dole family is one of 9 that have deep roots. We actually had 2 seperate sides of the family from the same generation, but we sold that farm for a development that never came to fruition.
Iv been doing drainage in north central Indiana for 40 yrs and for a farmer, you nailed everything you said on the head !!! Not to many farmers take the time to understand how tile works or how much time and labor it takes. And with the old tile , you said it correctly for if it's worth hooking back up or not. Keep up the great work and keep learning and passing on knowledge. 👍
@@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk a few videos after this there was a really big rain that I showed, but it wasn’t the focus of the video. If we get a huge rain this year, I’ll probably make a video focusing on the performance of the new system!
@@aTrippyFarmer I found it. I had to watch 4 videos though which is great for the algorithm. 😂😂 Great work. My wife asked why I was watching people dig in the dirt. 😂😂😂 She just doesn’t understand a boy, a mud puddle and some Tonka toys.
Hello, This video was nicely presented, and informative for people removed from the soil of the Earth. Our family has been on this farm since 1907, while have only been here since 1948. I can remember Grampa hiring Johnny and Pauly, to hand dig some 4” clay tile lines. I have recently put in 3000’ of 4” perf. over a couple years. As you explained here, the weather runs your business. Our son is a pipe layer in Akron, Oh., and has helped me to learn some of the skills to keep the land healthier. Your comment about losing faith in people. Sadly, this is a byproduct of fewer two parent families, and moving around the country. Thanks again for the great program.
My Grandfather had 2 Buckeye ditchers and ran Grade targets installing Clay Tile 😁 In 1976 we ran tile plows with Spectra physics lasers, 1.5 Million feet on average and now everyone is up to GPS grade controls. You had to live it to appreciate how far drainage has advanced.
I helped my brothers and Dad tile a couple of hundred acres in the early 50's. I was ten or 12 at the time. My job was to set tiles from the flatbed truck onto the wooden chute as the truck drove down the ditch.
That sounds like a lot of hard work. I am sure you earned your pay... or maybe just food... that day! Things sure have changed since then. Thanks for sharing!
I graduated in 1962, first job as a 98 pound weakling working for my uncle as the boy who brought the cement tile to the ditch where the guy in the shoe hooked it and dropped it into the trench. Mud, sand, caved walls, rocks, stuck machines, then long commutes to and from jobs, lunch pails, old cars, pickups, job ended with the frost, off to the navy after Thanksgiving. Barely made the minimum weight in spite of all the work. I had fun and wore out my hands, cement is like sand paper, thousands of tiles carried to the ditch. Seeing the modern equipment in action is always interesting to me. My cousins still do ditch tiling in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
Wow that sounds like a lot of work. There are so many jobs in the modern day that have been made substantially easier by machines and technology. Thanks for sharing!
I hope you can get a good return for all the expense! I live in East Yorkshire, UK, and the whole area was marshland until 1700 then a series of drainage plans were put in place and landowners dug ten foot deep and ten foot wide ditches to drain all the land. As the land dried out the ditches were filled in and built or farmed over.
Large drainage projects have been one of the most important feats of modern agriculture. Often times, the drained land is some of the most productive. I hope this is the case here!
@@aTrippyFarmer I hope so too but I can't imagine the total cost for you. My local ten foot drains were all dug by starving peasants paid with a bowl of porridge a day! I planted a delphinium plant two days ago and top soil is super black stuff full of worms but only about 5 inches deep over solid sand. Worms won't tunnel into sand.
It's been a while since I've been on the farm but it looked to me like you have 12 to 16 inches of top soil, that is really good land and you are right to do whatever is needed to keep it producing.
We are very fortunate to have areas with highly productive soils. There is a lot of variability with our location on a glacial moraine... thanks for watching!
Nice video,tiling always pays, $50,000.00 sounds and is alot of money, but your hoping to gain maybe 900 bushel of beans on that farm,at 80 bushel of beans per acer you would have to buy about 11 acers of land to gain that same 900 bushel of beans, where improving this land you don't pay for the land, seed ,fertilizer,weed control ,machinery cost ,or taxes on another 11 acers ,you already pay it on this land every year ,when you put that into prospective the 50K is a good investment
You are lucky to be removing water. In the Texas Panhandle area there are thousands of miles of tile. Millions of acres are irrigated. A good sprinkler system needs 4,000,000 gallons/day and 500 hp for just one sprinkler that is half mile long.
Thankst for the video. If you ever get to Geneva, NY there is a field tile museum that might be interested in the progress seen here. Here in Ohio some years ago the boom on a trencher hit a power line that melted tires.
I'm from the UK, and seeing miles and miles of completely flat land like that, with nothing on the horizon messes with my head! It just doesn't look real to me. Nothing where I live is flat, everything has some slope, unless someone went to the trouble and expense to flatten their lot.
Lesseee, UK is about a quarter million square km. Just one of the major agricultural states in the USA, Kansas, is 211k sq km. Nebraska is 198k. Iowa 145k, Ohio 105k. CA's central valley is nearly 200k. Just flying over the USA shows vast expanses of every type of terrain.
That black soil is something else and so deep.too, has a serious amount of fertility.I Really glad you have good neighbours, we worked extensively with ours back in the day, their land was a week or two earlier than ours, so it fitted well for scheduling and sharing equipment.
@@aTrippyFarmer Can the soil organic matter be increased enough to act as one big sponge to let the water flow down into the aquifer? I see Greg Judy's farms seem to hold several inches of rain with out a lot of run off. Do you get more than 50" of rain? Is the water table close to the ground?
@@safffff1000 its all the rain and snow that build up all winter, you have to get rid of it, with all that water you cant plow or run equipment over the land it will get stuck and compact teh soil , and the seed wont sprout that just die in the. without drainage its a swamp for months , then you miss your planting season . greg judys land its NOT flat and not the same soil. these farmers know what they are doing there life depends on it.
The tiles on our farm near Washburn, Il were all clay tiles. When the area would flood, after it dried out we would go out and hand dig, replacing broken and crushed tiles. This was in the late 40’s.
Great informative vid Andy. Amazing how different things are done in different areas of the country. I always love seeing things done different than what happens in our area.
I owned a drainage company.. LLC Sundance excavation and drainage... Yes always when you build consider drainage.. and a good foundation.. that is the key..
A 24" boot on that hydramaxx, sweet baby Jesus. My contractor in southeast Nebraska is the only other guy I've seen with the same machine. I've only needed 6-12" in terrace work. Even though you have a substantial cost to run across the neighbors, anyone seeing your farm in that overhead image can see it will be a good investment
It is an impressive machine. They don't run a lot of 24" tile, but they do need to from time-to-time. I'd say about every full-time farm drainage outfit in this area has a big wheel trencher for running mains!
27:11 As a land survey technician - I'm very aware of Trimble RTK, not knowing if they have access to some of the survey tools and depending on their internet access, a mount point (if using GPS corrections), and yes, depending on the day and the horizonal angle of the horizon, if satellites most satellites are near the 15-20 degree area and disappear, then you'd have to wait until other satellites come within signal range and yes, it can take 30 to at times 90 minutes to get going again. We just tell the client the Russians turn their satellites off temporary.
Nope it just handles the water from huge rainfall events. It’s not uncommon anymore for us to get over 4” of rain in less than 24 hours. Snow melt is not an issue here because we are too south to accumulate large amounts of snow.
Too bad we can’t pipeline that water out west. In 2019 we received 16 inches of water over 6 days. The original farm took it no problem. 22 years of no till and cover crops, not one inch of tile. Not even a puddle. The newer ground, we were planting in June, and it’s tiled. I hope I never have to dig like that. We have 22 windmills and they put in a lot of subterranean infrastructure. The level of detail you give is amazing. VERY well done. I’m probably looking at different things than most. Love seeing those stalks and stubble. Chalk up another one for good neighbors.
One of the biggest hurdles around here with the renewable energy projects is the excavation and destruction of previous drainage infrastructure... and the roads. I have mixed feelings about both wind and solar, but they sure do offer a lot of money for it. I'd happily send you some of our water. We got 3.5" last week. It hasn't stopped since September!
Very enjoyable video! AMAZING what that machine can do. Would enjoy follow up when the tile starts flowing water and what the field looks like...Thanks
When you bring in the wonder wheel you wonder what it will hit. For you a fake a artesian well. On the railroad a bigger version is used and it eats switch machines and cables for breakfast. Good idea the put in a 6' pipe by me for storm drainage and it ovefilled and flodded the service road, next to the highway which cut off the drainage. They replaced that with a 9' by 9' storm drain which they are in phase two to connect the rest of the hill. Nice job and nice soil. Tichincally the trencher broke the hard pan and rototated the soil. So maybee better yields for your neighbors and you.
Those trenchers can cause a lot of damage if things aren't scouted properly... I have heard of a tile plow causing a yield-bump from the deep rip, but I have not heard the same of a trencher. Thanks for the comment!
Enjoyed the tile work and the black soil at depth!! Never tiled on my western Canadian farm, it was cheaper just to buy more land! That is changing too!
This tile job would only have bought us a shade over 3 acres in our area. Land prices look good on your balance sheet, but it sure hurts to buy more nowadays!
that 24 inch stuff is quality pipe last a long time some of our large double walled pipe is 22 years old and still good and round unlike the 4 and 6 inch pipe that collapses over time
I unironically just came from watching a video about how the Underdeveloped parts of the world that have been historically too dry (and getting worse with the weather patterns) to support agriculture and then this came up as my first reccommended video for getting rid of it haha
A tale of two worlds. The fertile American prairie is home to soil that tends to remain swampy, especially with its naturally wet climate. We grow great crops, but the regular rains can cause ponding issues.
sorry to tell you it is the sats caushing issu same with tractors boss wev been having problems evne had to switch up stuff to get it to connect to the correct sat not the otthers
adding a simple wire on the pipe allows for a locator to be used. I would suspect the gas lines have such a feature. we use a simple sewer snake in a water line when under parking lots to add the metal antenna . a few hours of work saves a LOT of problems !
"financial journey" is a very professional way of saying "im about to haemorrhage money start to finish". also im not going mad am i? that bucket was on the wrong way round and in the next clip was right. lol
You aren't crazy... editing can make things look weird! It is a hemorrhage upfront, but it will be profitable within the first 5 years, if I had to guess...
Very interesting to me. I' waiting to get 80 acres tiled in Sangamon County. Hopefully, before the crops are planted this spring. If not, early this fall.
I HAVE ONE 80 THAT WE BOUGHT IN 1957 FOR 400 DOLLARS PER ACRE THAT HAS A 19 ACRE POND WHEN GET 5-6 RAIN. TWO YEARS AGO PUT IN 4100 FEET OF 15 DUAL WALL TILE to a newer 30 main. had to cross road also. this is also for surface water from the pond. it runs beside 100 year old county main except is about a foot deeper. Two 15 intakes in the pond. on new tile The county came out and installed and bedded tile across road yields on corn went from 159 to 275 The cost 3 years ago was 66000 dollars before the price hike. Been offered 130000 per acre but will never sell, leave it to my boys. I love the good old black dirt.. This was put in with a big track hoe from 3 to 12 foot deep thru a hill Loved the video By they way, I am 81years old and still work with my bees out on the farm Keep up the good work.
I appreciate the comment. That story is somewhat similar to this tile project. There are two older 15" (possibly bigger) clay tiles that were laid in the bottom of a ditch then it was filled it. My dad added a 24" concrete about 20 years ago to help drain the farm, and we added another in this video. They are expensive, but it should return nicely. That being said, it is neat to hear of what farmers paid for their land. My family also has many swaths that were purchased for a fraction of today's value. Most of those farms grossed at or above what they were bought for this season. You might be even better off! Thanks for sharing.
We are doing a project on a new farm we purchased. closing in a drainage ditch that splits the half section in half 4300 feet of 24 in then we'll beable to farm it end to end
That sounds pretty expensive! Do you think the 24” will be able to handle the water that flows down the ditch currently? Eons ago, way before my time, there actually used to be a big ditch across this field in the video. They laid 2 big clay tiles through it and filled it in.
@@aTrippyFarmer yeah it is not gunna be cheap with back filling the ditch about 115k. We get to use 20' sections instead of 9' like you guys had to and we are actually going bigger than it needs to be. we could get by with a 18" but the neighbor wants to tie into it so he's helping pay for it so we upped the pipe size to handle the extra load. It also doesn't see a ton of water the previous owner in a nice way didn't know what he was doing and just dug the water way 10'+ deep and about 7 foot wide, and left the spoils along side the waterway and made a mess of the field so now we get to fix it. Got it bought at a really nice price so making the improvements make it alot easier to swing.
@@aTrippyFarmer you're right just the convenience alone is worth it there's one part where they dug it we can't even get our 24 row planter it runs to close to the fence of the neighbors for about 300 feet so we keep a 12 row box planter around to plant that area when it's corn this is our 3rd year with the piece 1st spring owning it we hope it's done before planting 🤞
It seems like it would be easy for the trencher to have a hydraulic tilt feature to load the pipes. Then the skid steer could bring them over and they wouldn't have to lifted in by hand from there.
Yeah there is probably something that you could rig up. Regardless, you still need someone in the boot watching the connections as they go. Thanks for the comment!
Out standing and informative as always 👍 can always tell when area farmer's have a good year...lots of tile work being done👌 improve the farm and don't pay as much to Uncle Sam😁
If you think the tile work is a good sign, you should see the lots at the John Deere dealerships...nothing left for sale! I am a big believer in drainage, so I'd like to start budgeting in 100 acres of patterns a year to help improve our yields.
@@aTrippyFarmer That shiny new Combine doesn't make you money, tile does even in dry year. Put your drone to work during the season on the fields, you will see the tile lines as crops grow if you have no information or tile maps to help. We used to fly fields with an airplane on unknown ground about 12 noon on a Sunny day and take pictures.
Just in case no one has told ya yet,…. Thank you! Thank you for the foods you work so hard to produce for me to eat! Again, Thank you farmer. W/o ya we would all starve.
I appreciate the kind words. There is a lot to be gained financially by farming, so don’t think that farmers aren’t doing it solely because they are great people!
@@aTrippyFarmer absolutely a question for the water company. You know how much money they could have saved by having a 10 gauge copper wire for buried above the water line that they installed?
Hi Andy here’s one for you up here in southwest Michigan I know of a farmer that tiled his farm with a round point shovel or probably several I don’t know the amount of feet of tile but can you imagine.
I'm an engineer and a wannabe farmer and I loved this video. Very cool. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I work in an office most of the day, far removed from anything agricultural, but somehow i find this fascinating, just watched 50 minutes of enjoyable pipe laying !
I make these videos for people just like you. It's a whole different world out here in flyover country!
Perhaps it may be easier to derive a sense of accomplishment from something immediately tangable as opposed to (making an assumption of you here, forgive me) something like a report or spreadsheet.
@@stedmanwheless5372 I would agree with that. I work as a portfolio manager trading on the stock market. While our work gets done very well, it's not the same as seeing something physical getting done as opposed to just some numbers on a screen.
@@stedmanwheless5372 Absolutely! There is also something really wholesome and rewarding about working with soil/plants/nature. Most of the farmers i have met have been well-grounded, well-adjusted individuals. Then again, i have not met that many...
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Andy. I watch you all the time on my main 50 inch TV at home. I rarely comment but watch every video...
I appreciate that! I hope that you can watch in 4K on that big TV, so long as your internet can handle it. 4K looks GOOOOOD on TVs!
Well, your comment at 39:50 oohhh do NOT underestimate the complete tosh I am prepared to watch!! 🙂 anything from art restoration, tool restoration to sucking out blocked house drains....I (and many others) will watch it..... 550K views cant be wrong.
All hail the algorithm.
Watched this some months ago but found it so interesting that I came back again today. Found your place on google earth and looking at the past 30+ years I can see why you really needed to do this. Lots of water/wet areas in some years. I grew up in western Nebraska and worked on farms there in the summers but it was so dry there and not as flat as you are so tile wasn't something people needed to do. We were lucky to get 15 inches of precipitation a year and 7 or 8 was all we got some years. Thanks for taking the time to put this up. Best wishes for the new year.
Thanks for the nice comment, Marv. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. It is really neat to see how different the farming conditions are across the country, even if we grow some of the same crops. Best wishes!
@@aTrippyFarmer One of my hobbies is genealogy. Appears your family homesteaded there in the mid 1800s. Great that the farm is still in the family. Both my grandparents were farmers in Western Nebraska, but they lost out in the dust bowl days of the 1930s. One of my cousins still farms the place our great great grandparents homesteaded in Eastern Nebraska but none of his children are interested in farming, so the farm won't likely remain in the family very long after he passes. It appears love of farming is an inherited trait. When we get back to Nebraska, we still visit the farm family I worked for 60 years ago. Sadly, he passed recently. And none of his kids are interested in farming so that tradition will end with him.
@@marv1405 it is fun to think about the history of the farm, but it only takes one series of bad luck or distinerest from the next generation to end the lineage of a farm. That seems to just be the nature of life. There are many farms that grow stronger by the day, and others that continuously decay away. It is very hard for outsiders to grasp how farming is much more than an occupation-it is a way of life. You are correct about our history. We actually have deep roots. If you go to the Illinois sesquicentennial farm lookup, you can see that the dole family is one of 9 that have deep roots. We actually had 2 seperate sides of the family from the same generation, but we sold that farm for a development that never came to fruition.
Iv been doing drainage in north central Indiana for 40 yrs and for a farmer, you nailed everything you said on the head !!! Not to many farmers take the time to understand how tile works or how much time and labor it takes. And with the old tile , you said it correctly for if it's worth hooking back up or not. Keep up the great work and keep learning and passing on knowledge. 👍
Appreciate that. Drainage is becoming an important part of every farm. It’s one of the best places to spend money!
@@aTrippyFarmer have you done a follow up video showing this tile in action?
@@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk a few videos after this there was a really big rain that I showed, but it wasn’t the focus of the video. If we get a huge rain this year, I’ll probably make a video focusing on the performance of the new system!
@@aTrippyFarmer I found it. I had to watch 4 videos though which is great for the algorithm. 😂😂
Great work. My wife asked why I was watching people dig in the dirt. 😂😂😂
She just doesn’t understand a boy, a mud puddle and some Tonka toys.
Nice video keep it up!
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Hey, thanks!
You have a good relationship with your neighbors
It doesn't hurt to be friendly to everyone... never know when you're going to need a favor!
Great show Andy. Learned alot about something i knew nothing about. 💯
Hello, This video was nicely presented, and informative for people removed from the soil of the Earth. Our family has been on this farm since 1907, while have only been here since 1948. I can remember Grampa hiring Johnny and Pauly, to hand dig some 4” clay tile lines. I have recently put in 3000’ of 4” perf. over a couple years. As you explained here, the weather runs your business.
Our son is a pipe layer in Akron, Oh., and has helped me to learn some of the skills to keep the land healthier. Your comment about losing faith in people. Sadly, this is a byproduct of fewer two parent families, and moving around the country. Thanks again for the great program.
Nice of them to do their maintenance while they're on your time....very generous indeed.
They don't charge by the hour 😂
Tile work is charged by the foot. Doesn’t matter if it takes them a day or two weeks.
Wow, that was very interesting.
I have only seen 6" and 8" lines put in with a plow, but this operation for 24" is a whole different story !
Did that work 50 yes a go back then it was Clay title brought back some great memory's
My Grandfather had 2 Buckeye ditchers and ran Grade targets installing Clay Tile 😁 In 1976 we ran tile plows with Spectra physics lasers, 1.5 Million feet on average and now everyone is up to GPS grade controls. You had to live it to appreciate how far drainage has advanced.
I bet that was a sight to see. Technology sure has made things easier, but those old-timers earned their pay. Thanks for sharing!
That young man in bibs is a stud!
I was thinking the same thing!
Interesting video, good video to educate city dwellers who think you just sow seeds, water, and harvest.
Thank you for taking the time.
Thanks for watching!
I helped my brothers and Dad tile a couple of hundred acres in the early 50's. I was ten or 12 at the time. My job was to set tiles from the flatbed truck onto the wooden chute as the truck drove down the ditch.
That sounds like a lot of hard work. I am sure you earned your pay... or maybe just food... that day! Things sure have changed since then. Thanks for sharing!
I was fascinated with this job!
Glad you enjoyed!
I graduated in 1962, first job as a 98 pound weakling working for my uncle as the boy who brought the cement tile to the ditch where the guy in the shoe hooked it and dropped it into the trench. Mud, sand, caved walls, rocks, stuck machines, then long commutes to and from jobs, lunch pails, old cars, pickups, job ended with the frost, off to the navy after Thanksgiving. Barely made the minimum weight in spite of all the work. I had fun and wore out my hands, cement is like sand paper, thousands of tiles carried to the ditch. Seeing the modern equipment in action is always interesting to me. My cousins still do ditch tiling in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
Wow that sounds like a lot of work. There are so many jobs in the modern day that have been made substantially easier by machines and technology. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for showing the big 24 inch laying.
My pleasure!
I hope you can get a good return for all the expense!
I live in East Yorkshire, UK, and the whole area was marshland until 1700 then a series of drainage plans were put in place and landowners dug ten foot deep and ten foot wide ditches to drain all the land.
As the land dried out the ditches were filled in and built or farmed over.
Large drainage projects have been one of the most important feats of modern agriculture. Often times, the drained land is some of the most productive. I hope this is the case here!
@@aTrippyFarmer I hope so too but I can't imagine the total cost for you.
My local ten foot drains were all dug by starving peasants paid with a bowl of porridge a day!
I planted a delphinium plant two days ago and top soil is super black stuff full of worms but only about 5 inches deep over solid sand. Worms won't tunnel into sand.
It's been a while since I've been on the farm but it looked to me like you have 12 to 16 inches of top soil, that is really good land and you are right to do whatever is needed to keep it producing.
We are very fortunate to have areas with highly productive soils. There is a lot of variability with our location on a glacial moraine... thanks for watching!
amazing! coming from coastal Massachusetts, I can't believe the amount of topsoil you have
Thanks for watching! Central Illinois is home to some of the best farmland in the world. We are very lucky to farm here.
i with you really enjoy seeing this ,and i hope the generations forward appreciate all the effort and pride that was put into this project!!
Well said! Thanks for watching!
As a kid i always enjoyed seeing dirt and rock being moved in some fashion by a yellow earth mover. From a retired marine engineer in nz.☺
It sure is neat! Thanks for watching.
Mate I'm a skipper by trade drive charter boats and I find this so fascinating great video keep them up. From sunny Nelson New Zealand 🇳🇿
I appreciate the comment! Best wishes!
Yes I too, have really enjoyed watching this operation take place. Thanks for taking time in filming this job.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice video,tiling always pays, $50,000.00 sounds and is alot of money, but your hoping to gain maybe 900 bushel of beans on that farm,at 80 bushel of beans per acer you would have to buy about 11 acers of land to gain that same 900 bushel of beans, where improving this land you don't pay for the land, seed ,fertilizer,weed control ,machinery cost ,or taxes on another 11 acers ,you already pay it on this land every year ,when you put that into prospective the 50K is a good investment
Yes cornGot Above seven dollars a few weeks ago.
Yep that's a great way to look at it. 50,000 probably wouldn't even get you 3 acres in our area right now. This tile should gain us much more!
This was a great video. It's very interesting to see the tile actually being laid.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome thanks 👍 very interesting as I work on a tile crew in central Wisconsin 😊😂
You’d know this stuff better than me!
You are lucky to be removing water. In the Texas Panhandle area there are thousands of miles of tile. Millions of acres are irrigated. A good sprinkler system needs 4,000,000 gallons/day and 500 hp for just one sprinkler that is half mile long.
Different world!
I'm looking forward in seeing future water discharge updates as the season progresses. Best wishes this planting season...
I am excited, too. Of course, that would involved some big rains... 😒
Thankst for the video. If you ever get to Geneva, NY there is a field tile museum that might be interested in the progress seen here. Here in Ohio some years ago the boom on a trencher hit a power line that melted tires.
Thanks for the comment!
Great video very enjoyable and educational thanks for sharing it with us,
Greetings from Minnesota ....
Thanks for watching!
Good looking dirt in places. It is an interesting process. Looks like a good idea. I say get out of the rain.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this job. It will pay dividends you many years to come.
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating! First time seeing a soil snow blowerish thingy.
It does kind of look like a snow-blower with how it throws that dirt!
WOW!!!AMAZING PIPE LAYING
Thanks!
Marty had to write a big check for this one!💰💰
It was an expensive project, but it should pay quickly!
You pay for tile whether you have it or not.Old farm drainage contracter told me that,after a lot of tile was installed on my farm he was correct !
I'm from the UK, and seeing miles and miles of completely flat land like that, with nothing on the horizon messes with my head! It just doesn't look real to me.
Nothing where I live is flat, everything has some slope, unless someone went to the trouble and expense to flatten their lot.
Almost completely different worlds! It can be flat and wide open for mile after mile around here. Thanks for watching!
Lesseee, UK is about a quarter million square km.
Just one of the major agricultural states in the USA, Kansas, is 211k sq km. Nebraska is 198k. Iowa 145k, Ohio 105k. CA's central valley is nearly 200k. Just flying over the USA shows vast expanses of every type of terrain.
The road, the trencher is like, ‘yeah, no problem, I’m through’. Cool machine. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Like a hot knife through butter...
Awesome Video and Much Love as Always!!
Thanks for watching as always!!
Thanks for the video, I found it very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That black soil is something else and so deep.too, has a serious amount of fertility.I
Really glad you have good neighbours, we worked extensively with ours back in the day, their land was a week or two earlier than ours, so it fitted well for scheduling and sharing equipment.
That soil is extremely productive as long as it can be drained. I agree about the neighbors we are fortunate to be surrounded by so many great people!
@@aTrippyFarmer Can the soil organic matter be increased enough to act as one big sponge to let the water flow down into the aquifer? I see Greg Judy's farms seem to hold several inches of rain with out a lot of run off. Do you get more than 50" of rain? Is the water table close to the ground?
@@safffff1000 its all the rain and snow that build up all winter, you have to get rid of it, with all that water you cant plow or run equipment over the land it will get stuck and compact teh soil , and the seed wont sprout that just die in the. without drainage its a swamp for months , then you miss your planting season . greg judys land its NOT flat and not the same soil. these farmers know what they are doing there life depends on it.
The tiles on our farm near Washburn, Il were all clay tiles.
When the area would flood, after it dried out we would go out and hand dig, replacing broken and crushed tiles. This was in the late 40’s.
I appreciate the comment. I cannot tell if those are good memories or bad ones, but I'm happy to hear them!
I found it very interesting as well man.
Great video!
Thanks for watching!
This was a top grade documentary ! Well done.
Thanks for watching!
Very educational and enjoyable. Good luck in the future
Thanks for watching!
Great informative vid Andy. Amazing how different things are done in different areas of the country. I always love seeing things done different than what happens in our area.
Glad you enjoyed it! You all probably do it quite different out to the east.
Thank Ole Joe for the increases!
You got it!
I owned a drainage company.. LLC Sundance excavation and drainage... Yes always when you build consider drainage.. and a good foundation.. that is the key..
You're only as successful as your weakest link, and drainage was a major flaw on this farm!
FACINATING ! THANKS FOR SHARING!
Thanks for watching!
A 24" boot on that hydramaxx, sweet baby Jesus. My contractor in southeast Nebraska is the only other guy I've seen with the same machine. I've only needed 6-12" in terrace work. Even though you have a substantial cost to run across the neighbors, anyone seeing your farm in that overhead image can see it will be a good investment
It is an impressive machine. They don't run a lot of 24" tile, but they do need to from time-to-time. I'd say about every full-time farm drainage outfit in this area has a big wheel trencher for running mains!
27:11 As a land survey technician - I'm very aware of Trimble RTK, not knowing if they have access to some of the survey tools and depending on their internet access, a mount point (if using GPS corrections), and yes, depending on the day and the horizonal angle of the horizon, if satellites most satellites are near the 15-20 degree area and disappear, then you'd have to wait until other satellites come within signal range and yes, it can take 30 to at times 90 minutes to get going again. We just tell the client the Russians turn their satellites off temporary.
Haha so it was just a timing issue. That’s a great excuse!
So much water wow is this from the snow?
Nope it just handles the water from huge rainfall events. It’s not uncommon anymore for us to get over 4” of rain in less than 24 hours. Snow melt is not an issue here because we are too south to accumulate large amounts of snow.
@@aTrippyFarmer thats interesting still im located in California I believe we're going to be dry as a bone this summer
@@albertod4161 I’ve heard the west coast is pretty dry. You guys need all of the rain that you can get!
Really enjoyed this video. As always they get a thumbs up before even watching. Keep up the good work and thanks.
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching.
amazing people still lay lines without a tracer wire!
You'd think they'd know better!
Send that water to Oklahoma we need it. Good video
I wish that I could!
I work for a tile crew. I found your video very interesting. Always a good opportunity to see how others do things.
Thanks for sharing. Tiling is hard work, and I appreciate what you do!
Hay dude, this is a great video man, I always wanted to know and see how it done, so thanks for sharing,
No problem 👍
A 12 month breakeven is not impossible with future contract prices. Best of luck.
That beast is amazing
It can move a lot of soil...
Too bad we can’t pipeline that water out west. In 2019 we received 16 inches of water over 6 days. The original farm took it no problem. 22 years of no till and cover crops, not one inch of tile. Not even a puddle. The newer ground, we were planting in June, and it’s tiled.
I hope I never have to dig like that. We have 22 windmills and they put in a lot of subterranean infrastructure.
The level of detail you give is amazing. VERY well done. I’m probably looking at different things than most. Love seeing those stalks and stubble.
Chalk up another one for good neighbors.
One of the biggest hurdles around here with the renewable energy projects is the excavation and destruction of previous drainage infrastructure... and the roads. I have mixed feelings about both wind and solar, but they sure do offer a lot of money for it.
I'd happily send you some of our water. We got 3.5" last week. It hasn't stopped since September!
Good way to lay drainage pipe 🤗
It was an awesome project to watch. Thanks for the comment!
“Unfortunately I don’t have that much faith in humanity.”
Thanks Algorithm!
Thanks for watching!!!
That wheel trencher looks like a logging skidder converted. The cab reminds me of a Tigercat. Very cool video.
I am sure there are some similarities! Thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable video! AMAZING what that machine can do. Would enjoy follow up when the tile starts flowing water and what the field looks like...Thanks
Thanks for the comment. I'll follow up later in the season. It's almost guaranteed that we will get a flooding rainfall at some point.
When you bring in the wonder wheel you wonder what it will hit. For you a fake a artesian well. On the railroad a bigger version is used and it eats switch machines and cables for breakfast.
Good idea the put in a 6' pipe by me for storm drainage and it ovefilled and flodded the service road, next to the highway which cut off the drainage. They replaced that with a 9' by 9' storm drain which they are in phase two to connect the rest of the hill. Nice job and nice soil. Tichincally the trencher broke the hard pan and rototated the soil. So maybee better yields for your neighbors and you.
Those trenchers can cause a lot of damage if things aren't scouted properly... I have heard of a tile plow causing a yield-bump from the deep rip, but I have not heard the same of a trencher. Thanks for the comment!
keep em coming! fascinating to a city guy like me.
You got it!
One word comes to mind when watching this video
AMERICA!
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We use to dig foundation footings this way, fast and clean.
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Enjoyed the tile work and the black soil at depth!! Never tiled on my western Canadian farm, it was cheaper just to buy more land! That is changing too!
This tile job would only have bought us a shade over 3 acres in our area. Land prices look good on your balance sheet, but it sure hurts to buy more nowadays!
that 24 inch stuff is quality pipe last a long time some of our large double walled pipe is 22 years old and still good and round unlike the 4 and 6 inch pipe that collapses over time
I hope so! These pipes are built extremely sturdy. Thanks for sharing!
I unironically just came from watching a video about how the Underdeveloped parts of the world that have been historically too dry (and getting worse with the weather patterns) to support agriculture and then this came up as my first reccommended video for getting rid of it haha
A tale of two worlds. The fertile American prairie is home to soil that tends to remain swampy, especially with its naturally wet climate. We grow great crops, but the regular rains can cause ponding issues.
Awesome to see thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
sorry to tell you it is the sats caushing issu same with tractors boss wev been having problems
evne had to switch up stuff to get it to connect to the correct sat not the otthers
Thanks for the comment!
Super interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
adding a simple wire on the pipe allows for a locator to be used. I would suspect the gas lines have such a feature.
we use a simple sewer snake in a water line when under parking lots to add the metal antenna . a few hours of work saves a LOT of problems !
I agree. Ultimately, it wasn’t a big issue-just caused some lost time and water!
"financial journey" is a very professional way of saying "im about to haemorrhage money start to finish". also im not going mad am i? that bucket was on the wrong way round and in the next clip was right. lol
You aren't crazy... editing can make things look weird! It is a hemorrhage upfront, but it will be profitable within the first 5 years, if I had to guess...
WOW What a great video, Amazing info and what a great job the boys done for you all. Stay safe family.
They did great work. Their shop is actually just a mile away from that farm, so it was convenient for everyone!
Very interesting to me. I' waiting to get 80 acres tiled in Sangamon County. Hopefully, before the crops are planted this spring. If not, early this fall.
There’s always someone waiting on the tile guy to show up. That Sangamon County ground is probably world-class once you get it drained. Good luck!
Are the bell facing up the hill always bell to the well
Yes they are facing away from the outlet!
Thanks for your videos this was very interesting 👍 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!!
I HAVE ONE 80 THAT WE BOUGHT IN 1957 FOR 400 DOLLARS PER ACRE THAT HAS A 19 ACRE POND WHEN GET 5-6 RAIN. TWO YEARS AGO PUT IN 4100 FEET OF 15 DUAL WALL TILE to a newer 30 main. had to cross road also. this is also for surface water from the pond. it runs beside 100 year old county main except is about a foot deeper. Two 15 intakes in the pond. on new tile The county came out and installed and bedded tile across road yields on corn went from 159 to 275 The cost 3 years ago was 66000 dollars before the price hike. Been offered 130000 per acre but will never sell, leave it to my boys. I love the good old black dirt.. This was put in with a big track hoe from 3 to 12 foot deep thru a hill Loved the video By they way, I am 81years old and still work with my bees out on the farm Keep up the good work.
I appreciate the comment. That story is somewhat similar to this tile project. There are two older 15" (possibly bigger) clay tiles that were laid in the bottom of a ditch then it was filled it. My dad added a 24" concrete about 20 years ago to help drain the farm, and we added another in this video. They are expensive, but it should return nicely.
That being said, it is neat to hear of what farmers paid for their land. My family also has many swaths that were purchased for a fraction of today's value. Most of those farms grossed at or above what they were bought for this season. You might be even better off! Thanks for sharing.
did you have to do circles around it while filming? I really would have like to seen the process without getting dizzy.
We are doing a project on a new farm we purchased. closing in a drainage ditch that splits the half section in half 4300 feet of 24 in then we'll beable to farm it end to end
That sounds pretty expensive! Do you think the 24” will be able to handle the water that flows down the ditch currently? Eons ago, way before my time, there actually used to be a big ditch across this field in the video. They laid 2 big clay tiles through it and filled it in.
@@aTrippyFarmer yeah it is not gunna be cheap with back filling the ditch about 115k. We get to use 20' sections instead of 9' like you guys had to and we are actually going bigger than it needs to be. we could get by with a 18" but the neighbor wants to tie into it so he's helping pay for it so we upped the pipe size to handle the extra load. It also doesn't see a ton of water the previous owner in a nice way didn't know what he was doing and just dug the water way 10'+ deep and about 7 foot wide, and left the spoils along side the waterway and made a mess of the field so now we get to fix it. Got it bought at a really nice price so making the improvements make it alot easier to swing.
@@bd64201 it’ll be nice to close that in and farm over it. Hard to put a price on that!
@@aTrippyFarmer you're right just the convenience alone is worth it there's one part where they dug it we can't even get our 24 row planter it runs to close to the fence of the neighbors for about 300 feet so we keep a 12 row box planter around to plant that area when it's corn this is our 3rd year with the piece 1st spring owning it we hope it's done before planting 🤞
It seems like it would be easy for the trencher to have a hydraulic tilt feature to load the pipes. Then the skid steer could bring them over and they wouldn't have to lifted in by hand from there.
Yeah there is probably something that you could rig up. Regardless, you still need someone in the boot watching the connections as they go. Thanks for the comment!
Great video
Thanks!
I agree, I also find it fascinating how things work....loved the video...Also if you could, show update on how much water comes out of this please 😁
Will do!
Out standing and informative as always 👍 can always tell when area farmer's have a good year...lots of tile work being done👌 improve the farm and don't pay as much to Uncle Sam😁
If you think the tile work is a good sign, you should see the lots at the John Deere dealerships...nothing left for sale! I am a big believer in drainage, so I'd like to start budgeting in 100 acres of patterns a year to help improve our yields.
@@aTrippyFarmer That shiny new Combine doesn't make you money, tile does even in dry year. Put your drone to work during the season on the fields, you will see the tile lines as crops grow if you have no information or tile maps to help. We used to fly fields with an airplane on unknown ground about 12 noon on a Sunny day and take pictures.
you people with your things!
Things!
Just in case no one has told ya yet,….
Thank you! Thank you for the foods you work so hard to produce for me to eat! Again,
Thank you farmer. W/o ya we would all starve.
I appreciate the kind words. There is a lot to be gained financially by farming, so don’t think that farmers aren’t doing it solely because they are great people!
@@aTrippyFarmer 🤣👍🏻
Why did they not have a copper tracer wire over top of the water line, to allow for speedy location of the pipe?
That’s a question for the water company…
@@aTrippyFarmer absolutely a question for the water company. You know how much money they could have saved by having a 10 gauge copper wire for buried above the water line that they installed?
is there a video of them flowing full rate yet?
My most recent video has some footage of it running full-speed.
@@aTrippyFarmer yessss. my aspergers appreciates this.
It seems like in farming and ranching there is either too much water or not enough, thank the good Lord you have water.
What a drag I’ve had the same deal experience except it was electric omg
Electric lines are probably easier to locate underground, but it would still stink to hit one. There are much worse things to hit than a water line!
@atrippyfarmer. Thanks for showing us how the process is done. What brand pipe did you go with?
I believe that is Springfield Plastics pipe.
One of the best farming videos I have watched. Very informative look forward to seeing the effect it has - thanks
Wow, thanks!
Hi Andy here’s one for you up here in southwest Michigan I know of a farmer that tiled his farm with a round point shovel or probably several I don’t know the amount of feet of tile but can you imagine.
A lot of this old tile was laid that way... what back-breaking work!
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