New Guy From MN

[moored4]

:welcome: to TBN! :thumbsup:

Happy :tractor: ing!

 

[rambler]

In the old days, some was put in with a shovel - a special spade actually, I still have it on the shop wall, but before my time - fortunately.

A big wheel trencher did a lot of it in the 50s and 60s.

The last 20 years or so they came out with tile plows. Works about like they put in shallow phone wires, or some on here put in shallow pipe with a chisel plow shank. Only they can go 5 to 7 feet deep, are on a big tracked machine, and can put in up to 8 inch, maybe bigger, tile.

The last 5 years, they make farm-sized tile plows, farmers buy them to use with their big 4wd tractors, sometimes 2 hooked together, and put their own tile in. All us farmers know there will be worse and worse regulations on tiling as time goes by, so we are trying to put it in as fast as we can. It already is pretty hard to get a tile permit, and you can't drain out a wetland since 1987 or so. Like any govt regulation, there are some good points to it, but most of it makes little sense, and you just want to get around it before it smoothers you....

Anyhow, it's quite the machines they have. A family from 2 towns away has been working on installing mine; a son, dad, uncle, and granddad. Granddad is 83, he does most of the work of cleaning out the fines and hooking up the new tile to old tile. I wish I could work as hard as he does - ever in my life..... They've been doing this for close to 60 years now.

I'm a real small farm, use 1970's technology/ equipment.

Don't know I ever uploaded a pic here before, here's an attempt at a pic of the tile plow machine they use, and a pic of the crew with the tile wheel trenching machine, which put in some larger tile for me last summer - the big 12 and 15 inch tile was get my neighbor's water moved under my land and to the ditch. I suppose people from Kansas, Texas, and other dry areas are very puzzled by the need for such a thing as tile, but then I'm puzzled by how an irrigation pivot works, we all have our challenges.

--->Paul

 

[TripleR]

Welcome to TBN, Farmswithjunk does commercial mowing for private and public entities, so you might search for some of his threads.

 

[NLS1]

:welcome: to TBN! :thumbsup:

Happy :tractor: ing!

Hey thanks Moored! Good to be here and happy tractoring to you too!

Dan

 

[Marveltone]

Another southern Minnesotan? Welcome, from the frozen tundra... North of any civilization!

Joe

 

[Bob77064]

Welcome Dan

 

[NLS1]

In the old days, some was put in with a shovel - a special spade actually, I still have it on the shop wall, but before my time - fortunately.

A big wheel trencher did a lot of it in the 50s and 60s.

The last 20 years or so they came out with tile plows. Works about like they put in shallow phone wires, or some on here put in shallow pipe with a chisel plow shank. Only they can go 5 to 7 feet deep, are on a big tracked machine, and can put in up to 8 inch, maybe bigger, tile.

The last 5 years, they make farm-sized tile plows, farmers buy them to use with their big 4wd tractors, sometimes 2 hooked together, and put their own tile in. All us farmers know there will be worse and worse regulations on tiling as time goes by, so we are trying to put it in as fast as we can. It already is pretty hard to get a tile permit, and you can't drain out a wetland since 1987 or so. Like any govt regulation, there are some good points to it, but most of it makes little sense, and you just want to get around it before it smoothers you....

Anyhow, it's quite the machines they have. A family from 2 towns away has been working on installing mine; a son, dad, uncle, and granddad. Granddad is 83, he does most of the work of cleaning out the fines and hooking up the new tile to old tile. I wish I could work as hard as he does - ever in my life..... They've been doing this for close to 60 years now.

I'm a real small farm, use 1970's technology/ equipment.

Don't know I ever uploaded a pic here before, here's an attempt at a pic of the tile plow machine they use, and a pic of the crew with the tile wheel trenching machine, which put in some larger tile for me last summer - the big 12 and 15 inch tile was get my neighbor's water moved under my land and to the ditch. I suppose people from Kansas, Texas, and other dry areas are very puzzled by the need for such a thing as tile, but then I'm puzzled by how an irrigation pivot works, we all have our challenges.

--->Paul

That is awesome! Thanks for telling me how it worked. Good idea on doing it while you can. I agree it is frustrating to have the gov try to tell you how to do everything, as if someone in an office far away understands the difficulties any of us face on an individual basis. And even I they did, why do they think we need them to tell us how to do something? Oh well, good for you for taking care of your property as you need to to stay viable in the farming business!

Dan

 

[NLS1]

Welcome to TBN, Farmswithjunk does commercial mowing for private and public entities, so you might search for some of his threads.

Thanks TripleR, I have found some of those threads, and appreciate your insight and Farmswithjunk, lots of good info from you guys.

Saw you are in Missouri, what a great state! Simply beautiful place, kinda wish I lived there! We have family there, and boy it sure feels like home there too!

Dan

 

[NLS1]

Another southern Minnesotan? Welcome, from the frozen tundra... North of any civilization!

Joe

Thanks Joe! Man you are making me jealous, love it up there, northern MN is one heck of a place. How much snow up there this year? Ground is bare here, and 50-70 degrees is coming all next week. Gotta get the mowing stuff ready soon :laughing: still a month left on the plowing contracts, but looks like we may get skunked.

Welcome Dan

Thanks Bob, good to be here!

Dan

 

[Marveltone]

Dan, sadly, our snow accumulation has been rather deplorable this year. We currently have about 6-8" on the ground, but I'm sure it will all melt this week, as we're also expecting temps well into the 40's.

Joe