Re: Drainage Tile......what are they?

Posted by nebraska kirk on January 17, 2005 at 18:06:56 from (207.91.30.39):

In Reply to: Drainage Tile......what are they? posted by Ken in Pa on January 17, 2005 at 16:47:02:

My Dad lays drain tile for a living and when I was young I used to help him a LOT!. From driving the trenchdigger to laying the tile and covering it up with the backhoe.

The tile is laid so that one end drains into a creek or ditch.
The tile my Dad lays is made out of corrugated ( the corrugations make stronger and easier to bend) black plastic. It comes in various sizes and lengths and perforated and non perforated. My Dad has a big 6-wheel machine with a 7'dia. digging wheel mounted on the back to dig the trench. The digging wheel can be adjusted up & down for depth of cut via cables and hyd. cylinders. The tile comes in 100' to 250' coils that are unroled alongside the trench and carefully layed in the trench by hand. Enough dirt to cover the tile is pushed in by hand, the reason being to protect the tile from being crushed when a backhoe, or dozer pushes the rest of the dirt in all at once.

The tile is used to drain wetspots in fields and for tile terracing. Tile terracing is where a tile line is laid straight up a hill, with a perforated vertical tube comming up out of the ground where a terrace will be build. A terrace is then built around the hill following the contour to catch the runoff water and channel it around the hill to the vertical perforated "riser" where it then runs down into the tile and on down the hill to end up in a creek or river. A hill may have 3 to 5 terraces spaced about 50 to 75 yards apart up it's sides. The steeper the hill, the closer the terraces.

This tile terracing system is superior to the old system of terraces and grass-covered waterways. Waterways can't be farmed and must be properly maintained to prevent them from eroding.

If you need more detailed answers, I can ask my Dad if it would be alright if you gave him a call to discuss it.

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