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

Posted by paul on January 18, 2005 at 10:42:20 from (209.23.145.3):

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

Old tile were baked clay, trench dug by hand &
tile laid in.

Then concrete tiles (still used for larger main
lines esp) and a great big wheel with little
cups on it for digging trench.

Then the chain trenchers came, are popular
for commercial services. With plastic tile.

Now for pattern tilng they use tile plows, just a
great big 3pt implement on the back of a 4wd
tractor, works like a sub soiler point but 6"
wide & installs 4 or 6" plastic tile like they
install underground wire.

Flat ground? What is that?????????

You try to put tile in an average of 3' deep. You
need to be 24 inches deep or you will pull it up
with a ripper, etc. But it costs a lot to go more
that 4 feet deep, so you try to plan out the tile
patter to be in that 3 foot range.

It drains into the ditches or a natural lake or
stream, and the tile gentley climbs uphill from
there, mostly you follow the low spots in the
field.

Pattern tiling is for more flat fields (whatever
they are?) where they run tile every30 to 100
feet apart (depending on the type of soil, how
fast the water drains trough it) to a bigger
header tile on one end of the field, which
drains to the ditch eventually.

If you have a real low field it is likely real good
ground, so it may pay to tile it & put in a lift
station - this is a pump that lifts the water up,
as your field is about the same level as the
water in the ditch, so you can't get the water to
run away. You run the tile under the field,
drains to the pump, and the pump lifts the
water to the surface, where it can then run over
to the ditch again.

It keeps puddles of water from drowing your
crops/ makes low spots farmable so you can
plant & harvest in straight lines/ makes a
healthier root system of your crops because
they do not grow into saturated soils.

I have several miles of tile under my small
farm.

Now, my question - what is completely flat
ground?

--->Paul

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• Re: Drainage Tile......what are they? Hugh MacKay 04:48:58 01/19/05 (0)

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