Posted by paul on November 07, 2016 at 06:19:52 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: Re: Tileing farm land posted by Roger Tomfohrde on November 06, 2016 at 17:47:38:
Every soil and slope is different.
Patten tile here can be 80 feet apart. Some go as close as 40. In very tight clay soils I hear 30 is common.
Dad did some at 140 apart, that didn't really do the job, too far apart.
Shallow tile, 30 inches or less, will drain faster, but do not drain as wide an area. Tile drain a shallow V the farther away from the tile, the water stays a little higher in the ground. My soil types they suggest the tile will drain 90 feet away from it if you are 3-4 feet deep. At 2-3 feet deep it will pull 75-80 feet away.
If you go deeper than 4 feet, the drainage is very slow. The water does not perk very fast here, and while a 5 foot deep tile will drain a wide area, it will take weeks to do so. That doesn't really accomplish much.
Some of my best draining ground now, is where dad put in the shallow, 24-30 inches deep, 140 feet apart tile. A few years ago we put in a new main 2 feet deeper toget back to some other wet spots, and put in new laterals between the 140 foot. So now I have a pattern tile setup with every other tile 2.5 feet deep, and 4 feet deep, 70 feet apart. The shallow tile drain fast to get surface water sucked down, and the deeper tile pull out the excess ground water deeper over time, making room for more roots, and more water to soak in on the next rain event. What a nice peat muck field that is now! Grows corn like you wouldn't believe.
Before dad tiles it, it was a wet mess he hardly ever harvested more seed than he planted on it. With his shallow distant tile, he was able to plant and harvest it, but the roots were so waterlogged it only yielded half of a normal crop.
This year it rained every 2 days, twice the beans on it were under water (as in 3 feet of water....), but they ended up in my top 5 yields ever, that pattern tile kept them growing, got the water off thrm fast enough, and got the saturated soil dried down good enough to keep the roots happy.
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