I don't care if you are two years old or eighty years old, there is nothing cooler than watching heavy equipment work. Especially if you have NO CLUE what the machine is or what it does. Doesn't matter if you're a boy or girl we all played in the dirt with Tonka Toys as kids
I wondered if the water coming out of drain tile pipes DP could be used for drinking water yet never did I ever consider it being used for irrigation as in all of DP's videos the water is considered a nuisance rather than anything else. I had figured water couldn't be used for drinking due to chemicals farmers might use on their fields to treat crops. This procedure/process never crossed my mind and I must admit it took me a bit to understand how this whole process worked, once it hit me I was blown away. Awesome video, process & machines.. Thanks so much for showing it w/o first explaining it as people are forced so think hard what's going on, me included. Wow, so cool ..
Thank you for watching! You could probably drink water out of some tiles but I don't advise it because that's really shallow water and it's not so much the chemicals I worry about it's just the bacteria and things drink it through a life straw and you would be fine lol.....as far as using tile to supply water for irrigation that'd been Installed for drainage there just wouldn't be enough water available plus in the dry months they could just dry up
WOW! Thank You for bringing me along on this one. I never knew there was such a thing as a horizontal well. And that machine was a marvel. Thank you DeWind for letting this be filmed for all of us.
@@dans_Learning_Curve Really confused me for a while. It's been a long time since I've been somewhere water was that close to the surface. Thanks for the video.
@@davidsellars646 I worked on a ranch where they had areas where the water was mere inches below the field Was always fun raking hay and not realizing you dumped a windrow on one of those spots because your rake is 42 feet wide and your tractor never approached the spot itself, but the poor guy in the baling tractor goes head first into the hole. Was also fun walking on those spots, like walking on Jello. Was also fun because there were places you could just poke well pipe into the ground and have good water flow without any pumps at all.
Unreal!! That machine is a BEAST!! Really enjoyed seeing this and learning about it! Thank you DeWind for allowing Brando to film this!! Such a cool video!! Hope to see more of these guys!!!!!’
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I’ve done a lot of trenching and installed a lot of pipe but never seen anything close to that. We had a Vermeer T600 trencher to make a cut large enough to install 12’ water main, but never seen anything like that. Very fascinating. Just goes to show almost any task that needs done there is a machine to do it.
1/10/23; Wow! A 600 ft long, Horizontal Trench, 20 ft deep & ~4ft (?) diameter flex-perforated plastic tubing with double sock (sand) filter...requiring a 500 HP CAT sub-surface (excavator) narrow Trak (chain) Trencher! What a machine! Well waay down here in New Orleans area our local utility people use those (little) Vermeer Trencher machines to bury phone, fiber optic cable, gas & water lines. So this D7 CAT with rigid +20ft long, hinged narrow trak conveyor assembly is not a common sight sight waay down here in Mississippi Mud! Our subsurface geology few hundred feet down is known ( oil field speak) as Gumbo. Thx for explaining this type of 20ft deep horizontal trenching for water well & irrigation purpose. Fantastic special purpose machine. You said this company makes all their own equipment! ...and this 500 HP unit is their 'small' (only 20 depth) rig!! Great video 2day! Stay safe Brandon & show/tell us 'Gumbo' boys more of your farming stuff! Like lookin' & hearing & appreciating what farmers do to bring all us hungry people our food. Many thanks from waay down in Gumbo land!👍👍👍👏🛠⚙️💪🍺😊
Very cool Brandon, thanks for sharing another excellent episode. Never have seen or heard of a horizontal irrigation well. That trencher sure was a beast.
Now that is just amazing video. For me, it requires a follow up video of explanation of how the horizontal well system actually works to provide the water for the irrigation system (which I guess is a centre pivot design).
@@dirtgrainsteel isn't it basically similar to using the field tile for drainage, except it's at a depth to be continuely filled and the water is removed by mechanical power not the fall of the tile where it daylights out.
Fascinating! Like Mikec said, never heard of this before. I like the way the machine backfills as it goes, also, don't think they'll have a shortage of water for the well. Guessing this is for irrigation. The cement pad is a giveaway. Thank you Brandon, worth the effort.
Yep your are correct that's exactly what the pad is for I can't remember how many tower pivot it is I know it will reach far enough to go over the fence row we just cleared
Now that was fascinating. I've never seen one of those before. That was a special treat. Really appreciate you taking the time to share this. See you in the next one.
Wow Brandon thank you so much for sharing this great video and information and they have bigger machines than this is mind boggling. So glad they let you film them doing this 👍
That thing is impressive. After looking at their website I see why they call that a baby. Very cool pieces of engineering, thank you taking us along to see this.
Great Video, Sir. Never seen a horizontal well installed before !! Amazing that the 1000 hp machine is a small one !!!!!! your friend from COLD Michigan !!!!
What a impressive machine💪 👍 . I'm a excavator and wheel loader operator for almost 40 years here in Bavaria, Germany, but i've never seen something like this. Awesome video😁 👍 👌 ! Greetings from Bavaria.
I am in the concrete foundation business and own and operate a slew of equipment but this puts goosebumps on my arms especially since someone made this (not factory made). The sound of that Cat 12 cylinder! 🥶
I rana davis task force 600 for my fathers concrete business back in the 70s . It had a 6 foot side boom with attatchments to dig 14 inch wide trenches . I thought that was a neast of a sideboom trencher till I saw this one. Wow.
The piece that the other excavator was used to hold in place is the casing pipe for the well and they were pumping water through it into the sock covered tile pipe to keep silt from getting into the tile pipe while being installed. I think thats what happened right? This is a first for me. I knew about running tile in fields to drain the water drying them up so they could be farmed but never knew the water could be captured by putting the tile really deep and basically turning it into a horizontal well. That's really neat.
I was wondering when these boys would make a YT appearance! Yup these guys know how to tile. They are well known in the sewer/water industry for dewatering. I got to work a job with them back in 2010.
Nice film work, was the horizontal tile originally attached to the well casing and then that is what fed pressure to the tile as they went? Approx how long did the trenching take to do 600’? Subscribed, an interesting channel!
That is a beast of a machine thanks for sharing it’s crazy how sandy it is there around here it’s clay or shale lol if you get close to the river it’s sand or sandstone that deep down what a machine
For anyone else wondering: he is saying "tile" which refers to that big ass hose they are burying along the trench. Generally, "tile" or "field tile" refers to buried pipe with holes or gaps that allow water to enter the pipe. This pipe can be used to allow for better drainage in wet areas, and allows for the water to be diverted else-where. I guess in this application, rather than be used for drainage, the water will be entering the "tile" as a means to supply the vertical well pipe they buried at the beginning. I'd never heard of this, and I had no idea what the hell he kept saying using the word "tile". Anyway, nice vid.
I have seen a lot of irrigation go in and worked in it some but never seen anything like this. That is one heck of a trencher shop built or not. All the irrigation here in Ga. is either deep well or pumping out of ponds etc.. Can you do some kind of graphic to explain the concept and layout? Sure would help my brain to wrap around it...
Picture an underground lake except its not a cavern. It's ground water. Water moves through sand and stone. A horizontal well in comparison to a vertical well draws water the whole length of the sock vs in one singular point in the case of a vertical well.
@@Jmeinema1 Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense now. Our water table is so low here that kind of well wouldn't work but glad it can be done in other places. Unique way to get water.
Well the trencher actually has a safety slip clutch so if it were to hit a rock it wouldn't really hurt anything you would just have to stop and dig the rock out
In the west we go 700' down. When I was in Michigan the guys were talking about tiling the ground before planting an orchard. Never heard of such a thing being from the desert of Washington state.
I have never seen anything like this. Is this cheaper than a vertical well? Does his work because the water table is shallow? Does it flow on grade to the well head?
Is that a well for irrigation or field drainage? I'm not understanding the reason for the well in the middle of the field. Damn awesome machine. I would love to see the monsters.
It is a well for irrigation it's a center pivot irrigation so the pad is the anchor point for the irrigation and the idea of the well out in the middle of the field is so everything is located right at the pivot so there is no need to bury pipe and wire to it the diesel engine will pipe right out of the well to the pivot and then the engine driven generator will supply the electric to power the pivot....when ever you can find water this close to your irrigation this set up is the set up of choices but some times you can't find water this close so in those cases we would run pipe and wire from well to pivot In the passed we have had to go at least 3/4 of a mile away to find water pipe and wire and digging it in is costly compared to this set up here
Iirc, What those guys told me is they like to do “wheel spoke” patterns from a central well to get water quickly to well point instead of trying to pull from fissures underground. Water seeps in thru socket into drain tile tube and has a straight shot to well.
Very interesting process. I have some low lying wet areas and am curious if I could do a similar approach. I'm curious how you calculate the necessary run in order to achieve a needed flow rate for irrigation. Is there a duty cycle in terms of amount of time water is pumped and then a rest period to let the water be replenished? Anyone with resources please post links. Thanks.
Thinking here, *ZERO knowledge* on my end, before potentially incurring a ton of engineering and testing costs; due diligence stuff: - Local knowledge from other land owners, well drillers, and/or government ag/soil/conservation agency/board? - Is the aquifer that high; flow rate from/with a driven sand point well and a jet pump? [You can test that yourself relatively inexpensively.] Fun to think about, that's for sure.....
We just put the 25ft boom on the other "baby machine" for another job up coming next week Definitely a engineering marvel. Especially when you start talking the bigger machines that the other side of our company uses
So the water table is high enough that little trench is all that is needed to supply enough water for a center pivot? That is crazy. What is the expected lifespan of these systems?
Picture a lake except underground. The well does not specifically get its water from what is trenched. But from a broad area (cone of draw). This is why horizontal wells are capable of higher gpm from one well vs. Your standard vertical well which has a single point cone to draw from where as the horizontal well pulse the entire length of the tile that is laid
The concrete pad is for the center point of the irrigation there is a structure with four legs that will bolt to it a Diesel engine with a pump and generator will set next to it supplying the irrigation with electric and water and no the pipe will not suck shut
Do you do anything with all the muddy material when complete? Do you just allow it to dry out naturally? I would think it might make a strip in the field with lower yields due to poor soil.
That is why we recommend that the top soil be removed and set aside. Usually the sand gets leveled and the topsoil placed back. There are however wells that you can see on Google maps because the top soil was never removed
There is a fitting welded in the side of the steel casing the tile goes on and I believe it's screwed on and then tapped really good the put it together then I pulled the casing up and they squeezed the casing to hold it and the door got shut on the bottom of the boot so that's why you couldn't see how it was connected
I don't care if you are two years old or eighty years old, there is nothing cooler than watching heavy equipment work. Especially if you have NO CLUE what the machine is or what it does. Doesn't matter if you're a boy or girl we all played in the dirt with Tonka Toys as kids
I totally agree lol
I wondered if the water coming out of drain tile pipes DP could be used for drinking water yet never did I ever consider it being used for irrigation as in all of DP's videos the water is considered a nuisance rather than anything else. I had figured water couldn't be used for drinking due to chemicals farmers might use on their fields to treat crops. This procedure/process never crossed my mind and I must admit it took me a bit to understand how this whole process worked, once it hit me I was blown away. Awesome video, process & machines.. Thanks so much for showing it w/o first explaining it as people are forced so think hard what's going on, me included. Wow, so cool ..
Thank you for watching! You could probably drink water out of some tiles but I don't advise it because that's really shallow water and it's not so much the chemicals I worry about it's just the bacteria and things drink it through a life straw and you would be fine lol.....as far as using tile to supply water for irrigation that'd been Installed for drainage there just wouldn't be enough water available plus in the dry months they could just dry up
WOW! Thank You for bringing me along on this one. I never knew there was such a thing as a horizontal well. And that machine was a marvel. Thank you DeWind for letting this be filmed for all of us.
Horizontal well is a new one for me also!
@@dans_Learning_Curve Really confused me for a while. It's been a long time since I've been somewhere water was that close to the surface. Thanks for the video.
@@davidsellars646 I worked on a ranch where they had areas where the water was mere inches below the field Was always fun raking hay and not realizing you dumped a windrow on one of those spots because your rake is 42 feet wide and your tractor never approached the spot itself, but the poor guy in the baling tractor goes head first into the hole. Was also fun walking on those spots, like walking on Jello. Was also fun because there were places you could just poke well pipe into the ground and have good water flow without any pumps at all.
Unreal!! That machine is a BEAST!! Really enjoyed seeing this and learning about it! Thank you DeWind for allowing Brando to film this!! Such a cool video!! Hope to see more of these guys!!!!!’
I think I need to just go work for them and run trenchers lol
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I’ve done a lot of trenching and installed a lot of pipe but never seen anything close to that. We had a Vermeer T600 trencher to make a cut large enough to install 12’ water main, but never seen anything like that. Very fascinating. Just goes to show almost any task that needs done there is a machine to do it.
Thank you for watching!
1/10/23; Wow! A 600 ft long, Horizontal Trench, 20 ft deep & ~4ft (?) diameter flex-perforated plastic tubing with double sock (sand) filter...requiring a 500 HP CAT sub-surface (excavator) narrow Trak (chain) Trencher! What a machine! Well waay down here in New Orleans area our local utility people use those (little) Vermeer Trencher machines to bury phone, fiber optic cable, gas & water lines. So this D7 CAT with rigid +20ft long, hinged narrow trak conveyor assembly is not a common sight sight waay down here in Mississippi Mud! Our subsurface geology few hundred feet down is known ( oil field speak) as Gumbo. Thx for explaining this type of 20ft deep horizontal trenching for water well & irrigation purpose. Fantastic special purpose machine. You said this company makes all their own equipment! ...and this 500 HP unit is their 'small' (only 20 depth) rig!! Great video 2day! Stay safe Brandon & show/tell us 'Gumbo' boys more of your farming stuff! Like lookin' & hearing & appreciating what farmers do to bring all us hungry people our food. Many thanks from waay down in Gumbo land!👍👍👍👏🛠⚙️💪🍺😊
That’s amazing! Never heard of a horizontal well, very interesting. Thank you!
You’re welcome!
That is some “deep ripping”! Thanks for sharing, never saw a “horizontal” well…. Awesome vid
That was impressive! Knew nothing about horizontal wells before this video. 😊👍🏻
That is impressive and I didn’t know anything about horizontal wheels either
Very cool Brandon, thanks for sharing another excellent episode. Never have seen or heard of a horizontal irrigation well. That trencher sure was a beast.
Your welcome thanks for watching!
Now that is just amazing video. For me, it requires a follow up video of explanation of how the horizontal well system actually works to provide the water for the irrigation system (which I guess is a centre pivot design).
I would like the explanation as well.
Yup. Count me in.
I will do a follow-up video and do some more explaining
@@dirtgrainsteel isn't it basically similar to using the field tile for drainage, except it's at a depth to be continuely filled and the water is removed by mechanical power not the fall of the tile where it daylights out.
@danielcollier4401 yes that's exactly how it works
I think that's the coolest thing I've seen in a long long time I appreciate you bringing us all along for the journey enjoying your videos quite much
Thank you for watching!
Never seen anything like this, amazing, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Fantastic video!! Thanks for sharing.
That was freakin awesome to watch!
Amazing machine. Thanks for getting the footage. God bless
Fascinating! Like Mikec said, never heard of this before. I like the way the machine backfills as it goes, also, don't think they'll have a shortage of water for the well. Guessing this is for irrigation. The cement pad is a giveaway. Thank you Brandon, worth the effort.
Yep your are correct that's exactly what the pad is for I can't remember how many tower pivot it is I know it will reach far enough to go over the fence row we just cleared
Now that was fascinating. I've never seen one of those before. That was a special treat. Really appreciate you taking the time to share this. See you in the next one.
Thank you for watching!
That's a slick machine! Thanks for the video
Thank you for watching!
Great guys ! I have had the pleasure working with them on a few jobs over the years here in New Jersey.
I love the innovation and how well oiled there operation is. Very impressive!
Yes they definitely have it figured out!!
Look forward to more on this machine and we’ll style. Have never seen it that way. Glad you could film them
Ol' DP better step up his trenching game! LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes sir hell he's not even in the ball park with this one !! 😃👍👍👍👍
Lol this trencher would be alittle extreme just for trenching drain tile in
No bullshit, stable video, good sound. Thanks!
Wow Brandon thank you so much for sharing this great video and information and they have bigger machines than this is mind boggling. So glad they let you film them doing this 👍
Your welcome!!
Very impressive operation, Brandon!
thats some serious bit of kit, not a lot of footage of bigger Trenchers about thanks for taking the time to film this.
Your welcome!
Very interesting never heard of a horizontal well before.
I rebuilt two 3516 cats for a couple of these monsters monstrous horse power great video thank you Brandon
Thank you for watching!!
That thing is impressive. After looking at their website I see why they call that a baby. Very cool pieces of engineering, thank you taking us along to see this.
Your welcome thank you for watching!! Yes they have some really cool stuff!!
Thanks for the video I worked for a company by grand rapids Michigan that used De went De watering job sites great guy's
Your welcome!!!
Great Video, Sir. Never seen a horizontal well installed before !! Amazing that the 1000 hp machine is a small one !!!!!! your friend from COLD Michigan !!!!
Thank you! Yeah the baby trencher the best part is the MT750 stands for Mega Trencher 750hp originally it was 750 then it got modified to run 1000
SONOFA.......... Damn, no messing around there👍👍
That thing is awesome thanks for sharing it with us
Thanks for watching!
That was pretty cool !!!
Man that’s awesome!! I would love to see the huge one run!!
The do have a UA-cam channel and I'm pretty sure it's on there!
Great video Brandon, really awesome machine!!!
Thanks!
friggin awesome. nuff said
I do believe many of just got a great education thanks for bringing us along. Stay safe
Thanks for watching
Should have the sprockets driving on the other end to reduce bushing wear. Cool Machine!
That was pretty cool never seen it done till now that you for the adventure
Your welcome!!
What a impressive machine💪 👍 . I'm a excavator and wheel loader operator for almost 40 years here in Bavaria, Germany, but i've never seen something like this. Awesome video😁 👍 👌 ! Greetings from Bavaria.
Wow! What a machine!
That is one cool machine.
The video was very interesting, l had no idea that is how its done. Thanks for show it.
Thank you for watching!!
That "baby" machine is a beast. She does her job well.
Yes it's very impressive!
I am in the concrete foundation business and own and operate a slew of equipment but this puts goosebumps on my arms especially since someone made this (not factory made). The sound of that Cat 12 cylinder! 🥶
I rana davis task force 600 for my fathers concrete business back in the 70s . It had a 6 foot side boom with attatchments to dig 14 inch wide trenches . I thought that was a neast of a sideboom trencher till I saw this one. Wow.
A walk around video of that rig would have been awesome!
That would have been cool but somethings on these machines are kinda industry secrets so respectfully I didn't
@@dirtgrainsteel What part of the world is that in? The dirt looks very sandy. They are one of a kind machines for sure.
that needs to be in a mad max movie
Hi brilliant video being from the U.K. I had no idea what a vertical well was it’s amazing what machines humans can invent to get a certain task done.
Thank you! There are definitely some cool machines out there!!
The piece that the other excavator was used to hold in place is the casing pipe for the well and they were pumping water through it into the sock covered tile pipe to keep silt from getting into the tile pipe while being installed. I think thats what happened right? This is a first for me. I knew about running tile in fields to drain the water drying them up so they could be farmed but never knew the water could be captured by putting the tile really deep and basically turning it into a horizontal well. That's really neat.
absolutely amazing not something I've ever seen 10 thumbs up
Thank you!
I used to run the 88-B Bucyrus Erie dragline out at IMI in Kewanna. The kid that took over after I moved on in Local 150 crashed the 112 foot boom.
Damn kids!!
That's the biggest chainsaw I have ever seen!
Great video
Notice the single grousers to give it dozer traction. Definitely needs it. God bless
Yep sometimes he deffinatly needs it!
What beast of a machine.
I was wondering when these boys would make a YT appearance! Yup these guys know how to tile. They are well known in the sewer/water industry for dewatering. I got to work a job with them back in 2010.
Great guys!!
Nice film work, was the horizontal tile originally attached to the well casing and then that is what fed pressure to the tile as they went? Approx how long did the trenching take to do 600’?
Subscribed, an interesting channel!
That is a beast of a machine thanks for sharing it’s crazy how sandy it is there around here it’s clay or shale lol if you get close to the river it’s sand or sandstone that deep down what a machine
That is an impressively deep trench
For anyone else wondering: he is saying "tile" which refers to that big ass hose they are burying along the trench. Generally, "tile" or "field tile" refers to buried pipe with holes or gaps that allow water to enter the pipe. This pipe can be used to allow for better drainage in wet areas, and allows for the water to be diverted else-where. I guess in this application, rather than be used for drainage, the water will be entering the "tile" as a means to supply the vertical well pipe they buried at the beginning.
I'd never heard of this, and I had no idea what the hell he kept saying using the word "tile". Anyway, nice vid.
Funny how old terms still get used like Field Tile, Drain Pipe or Steam Roller for Road Compactor. That machine saves a heck a lot of time and labor.
Wow awesome machine
I have seen a lot of irrigation go in and worked in it some but never seen anything like this. That is one heck of a trencher shop built or not. All the irrigation here in Ga. is either deep well or pumping out of ponds etc.. Can you do some kind of graphic to explain the concept and layout? Sure would help my brain to wrap around it...
Picture an underground lake except its not a cavern. It's ground water. Water moves through sand and stone. A horizontal well in comparison to a vertical well draws water the whole length of the sock vs in one singular point in the case of a vertical well.
@@Jmeinema1 Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense now. Our water table is so low here that kind of well wouldn't work but glad it can be done in other places. Unique way to get water.
Well done sir. I'll see myself out
Awesome never heard of a horizontal irrigation well so how does that chain hold up with hitting a boulder of granite ?? 🤔👍👍👍👍
Well the trencher actually has a safety slip clutch so if it were to hit a rock it wouldn't really hurt anything you would just have to stop and dig the rock out
overkill is underrated
In the west we go 700' down. When I was in Michigan the guys were talking about tiling the ground before planting an orchard. Never heard of such a thing being from the desert of Washington state.
Dirt perfect need to step his tile plow game up. 😂
Cool cool 👍👌🤘🤘
I have never seen anything like this. Is this cheaper than a vertical well? Does his work because the water table is shallow? Does it flow on grade to the well head?
Now that is a trencher! She screams!
She sounds good!!!
Had me at *thousand HPs* my dude. Had me there.
Pretty sweet! About how much per Ft do they charge? I would hope good money. They have a big investment there.
That is some very nice coarse sand you have in that field. Bet that we'll puts out 500gpm if not more
Need to actually mine the sand off that farm lol
We did a big bentonite wall over south of Maryville for rieth and Riley. For a sand pit just off i-65 you can see it on Google maps
A well or an irrigation pivot?
Is that a well for irrigation or field drainage? I'm not understanding the reason for the well in the middle of the field.
Damn awesome machine. I would love to see the monsters.
I think they have a 600ft horizontal well, filtered with a double sock, below the water table, for an irrigation pivot.
Good question. I would assume it nots for potable water unless you have a taste for roundup.
It is a well for irrigation it's a center pivot irrigation so the pad is the anchor point for the irrigation and the idea of the well out in the middle of the field is so everything is located right at the pivot so there is no need to bury pipe and wire to it the diesel engine will pipe right out of the well to the pivot and then the engine driven generator will supply the electric to power the pivot....when ever you can find water this close to your irrigation this set up is the set up of choices but some times you can't find water this close so in those cases we would run pipe and wire from well to pivot In the passed we have had to go at least 3/4 of a mile away to find water pipe and wire and digging it in is costly compared to this set up here
Iirc, What those guys told me is they like to do “wheel spoke” patterns from a central well to get water quickly to well point instead of trying to pull from fissures underground. Water seeps in thru socket into drain tile tube and has a straight shot to well.
What a machine, but what will it do when it comes to a shelf of solid rock?
Well luckily we don't have solid rock around here I'm sure they have a trencher that will chew through it
Is he using GPS to stay straight, or is he that good? Totally cool, either way.
He's just that good!
Like a giant chain saw.
Yes! A very big chain saw!
If you said I must have missed it, how many gallon a minute does the well pump?
When it started throwing the dirt right back in the hole on top of the tile my jaw hit the floor
Very interesting process. I have some low lying wet areas and am curious if I could do a similar approach. I'm curious how you calculate the necessary run in order to achieve a needed flow rate for irrigation. Is there a duty cycle in terms of amount of time water is pumped and then a rest period to let the water be replenished? Anyone with resources please post links. Thanks.
Thinking here, *ZERO knowledge* on my end, before potentially incurring a ton of engineering and testing costs; due diligence stuff:
- Local knowledge from other land owners, well drillers, and/or government ag/soil/conservation agency/board?
- Is the aquifer that high; flow rate from/with a driven sand point well and a jet pump? [You can test that yourself relatively inexpensively.]
Fun to think about, that's for sure.....
I've seen a lot of things in my life but this is a new one on me. I'd be very curious to know more.
Great video! How deep are they digging here? How wide is their trench? Is most of the water that they are bringing up ground water?
21ft deep. About 2 feet wide.
@@Jmeinema1 About 1.6 cubic yards of material per foot and it backfills as it goes. That is an impressive machine.
We just put the 25ft boom on the other "baby machine" for another job up coming next week
Definitely a engineering marvel. Especially when you start talking the bigger machines that the other side of our company uses
That's pretty Slick
They have a UA-cam channel if you want to see a really big machine. Becky DeWind.
So the water table is high enough that little trench is all that is needed to supply enough water for a center pivot? That is crazy. What is the expected lifespan of these systems?
Picture a lake except underground. The well does not specifically get its water from what is trenched. But from a broad area (cone of draw). This is why horizontal wells are capable of higher gpm from one well vs. Your standard vertical well which has a single point cone to draw from where as the horizontal well pulse the entire length of the tile that is laid
Holly cow! You keep saying sandy soil. You are not kidding . Is this in the Ohio River Valley? That was a great video. Keep up the great content. 👍
Good old Starke County,Indiana....thank you for watching!
So on the concrete slab comes a pump that sucks the water out the white platic pipe? Doesnt that pipe implode by the suction?
The concrete pad is for the center point of the irrigation there is a structure with four legs that will bolt to it a Diesel engine with a pump and generator will set next to it supplying the irrigation with electric and water and no the pipe will not suck shut
do they have any videos ov their 4000 hp trencher
Look up dewind one pass Trenching on UA-cam
Do you do anything with all the muddy material when complete? Do you just allow it to dry out naturally? I would think it might make a strip in the field with lower yields due to poor soil.
That is why we recommend that the top soil be removed and set aside. Usually the sand gets leveled and the topsoil placed back. There are however wells that you can see on Google maps because the top soil was never removed
Do you ever run into gigantic boulders?
Do they put a submersible pump in the stand pipe or a vertical turbine pump above the vertical pipe to actually pump the water?
You can pump out of these with both style pumps
Will that not all be ground water? I assume that it will be for irrigation, so it shouldn’t really matter.
holy shit
How does the tile connect to the bottom of the well, I see the bottom of the tile boot but not sure how they have it connected
There is a fitting welded in the side of the steel casing the tile goes on and I believe it's screwed on and then tapped really good the put it together then I pulled the casing up and they squeezed the casing to hold it and the door got shut on the bottom of the boot so that's why you couldn't see how it was connected
Is all the water water they’re pumping in or is that water coming out of the field?
That water is coming up from the existing ground water
Is that the same trencher they use to put in the tile you talk about?
It could be used for it but for normal drainage tile going this deep isn't necessary