Tiling is so easy today with the good machinery and plastic tile. Back in the mid-50's an old Danish immigrant in his 80's hand dug a half mile of tile for dad. Soren Pedersen was his name. Hand digging tile is all he knew. His hands wouldn't straighten out because they had been wrapped around a spade or shovel for so many years. He passed away in 1958 at the age of 88. Today the person doing the tiling sits in a warm cab.
A couple of years ago an entire half section south of me was pattern tiled. I assume the tile was spaced every fifty feet. A half section is 5280 feet by 2640 feet so approximately 100 lines 2500 feet long were laid. The exact figure might not be that much or it might be more but that's the general idea. That half section had a few drown out spots before the tiling was done but this year every acre grew a crop.
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