I had a blowout, or in my case a wash in repaired yesterday. It was a 12" clay. The top of the tile was 14" below the surface of the ground. It was at least 80 years old so I'd say it did pretty well. Just one tile caved in, the rest weren't cracked or damaged. A lot if the tile in my area are in the ground only 16"-18". Most of this tile was hand dug so I don't imagine they wanted to dig any deeper than they could get by with. Some of the tile is laid in potholes that aren't much higher in elevation than the drainage ditch the tile drains into so the tile has to be laid shallow to get enough fall.
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