100,000 POUNDS of pulling force to install 70,000ft of drainage tile!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- 100,000 POUNDS of pulling force to install 70,000ft of drainage tile!
The Quadtrac and Tile Plow head up north to do a big project with @granthilbert5632 and @spencerhilbert to improve their farms drainage situation. It's a fun project and lots of things happen. Make sure to head over to their channels to see their points of view from the project.
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Farmers helping farmers . If everyone helped each other the way farmers do the world would be a much better place.
A good time had by all!!!!!!
13+ miles WOW!! Now just get your logos on the the BEASTY Tile Truck and getter done !! Thanks so much men! MASTER PIPE LAYER OF IOWA!!👍👍👍👍
That make the tile truck look slick!
Awesome video glad to see you boys helpin each other out hopefully Grant and Spencer can return the favor someday
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Might look for an old plow shank or chisel plow shank for your marker.
Needs to be stout!
Looks like quite the adventure
Wow!!! Fantastic to watch the enthusiasm of you guys laying all the tile. Looking forward to seeing results.
great job. lot easier to see the end for the beginning.
Then you look like you've done a few of these before. It's always awesome watching you do this.
More to come!
Hello! No pain, no gain...
Well Ben looks like the old Freight Shaker utility truck and trailer are going to work out good for you. Don't forget to put the bucket in the back 🚽. If you remember what I told you when you first got the truck. Good luck on getting all that tile job done.👍👍👍🤙. Have a happy and safe holiday
Good call!
@@iowANFarmer yes sir👍👍
Great video, good to see 2 Youtubing farmers work together 👍
Thanks 👍
I did not know, that this was a thing.... Pretty cool job!!
Really improves yield.
@@iowANFarmer so, it helps dry out the soaked land. I get it now... I'm gonna watch more vids, and learn more about it.
Great job young men - thank you for the video!
Nice job Ben !
Great video!
You always have a twinkle in your eye when you’re tiling. It’s very kind of you to travel to help other farmers tile. You’re giving the Master Pipe Layer a run for his money!
Really enjoyed seeing you guys working the project together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. I'm a retired drainage contractor. I had the first plow in Illinois, a Canteco behind a Versatile 950. I also had a Sprecher 6060 for pipe up to 12"
And a TA55 Barber Green for pipe up to 24". Also a 410B John Deere backhoe with a detachable auger backfiller, scraper, grader, various trucks, trailers, support van, and other pieces of equipment. In 1980 I contracted a million ft job in Fair Oaks Indiana where Prudential Insurance Co had purchased 24,000 acres of land and put up, at that point, 60 center pivot irrigation systems. I learned at workshops that a wide trench and flat bottom causes major deflection of the pipe reducing flow capacity by up to 50%. There is a much better way! Dig your start holes on the back side of the main just like you have been doing on the front side. Cut out a section of the main. Set the plow in the backside trench and pull through on grade until you clear the main. The pipe then has the proper grade, has the necessary "V" bottom for support, and the trench is only as wide as the plow, and practically no hand "bedding" on exposed pipe. . If you try this, give a good trial of at least a dozen or so tie ins. Once you and your guy get the hang of it, it's actually easier and quicker. Good luck!
Very cool!
@@iowANFarmer I hope you try this method. It's required by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture as well as licensing for contractors and their machinery. I also installed one of the first subsurface irrigation plots at Fair Oaks.
Just for fun, hook the 8110 to the excavator and see which one pulls more. My guess is that with a little frost on top the tractor with tires will outpull the excavator with those shallow grousers. I have a similar sized excavator and the traction for pushing or pulling is not that great even with all that weight.
Why the extra piece on top of the intake t? Tap tees are awesome as you have found out. I am guessing you have seen they have for thicker pipe also.
I have, I need to try out some of the 3" ones
you can’t go wrong with those tap tee’s.
Got'er did!
Good job to use the cat bulldozer.
I think she might need some more weight.
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Makin it look easy! How has the custom tilling been? Have much work or just been doing your own?
Starting to take on custom jobs, but sill lots to do on my own.
Wow. Your tile layer seems so much better than the monstrosity DP built in Indiana. It even looks very transportable. Congrats!
if you ask a tiler when is the best time to tile the answer is last year.
Grant is going to be amazed at those 30 foot spacing.
well done guys.
Correct!
Haven’t had to have the neighbor come with a d9 yet?…..lol a big mess of mud and twisted steel involved another big dozer and 2 excavators….
That be a hard one to transport around.
Just referencing a moment when I was pulling tile....lol turned into a true mess
ISU and Iowa grads working side by side!
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I see a lowboy semi trailer in your future, for moving equipment. Just got to find the right one for the right price
I don’t know much about them.
In Michigan we call them lowboy trailers. they are a flat bed trailer that is dropped down low to the ground for moving heavy equipment
What kind of drone do you use Ben for your footage
I use DJI mini, but Spencer took this footage with his drone. It was a bigger drone.
Hey Ben love the videos I have a couple of questions. I live here in Kentucky and know a couple of big grain farmers I grew up on a small tobacco and dairy farm but have never heard of tiling. First question is. How do you know where and what fields need tiling? And in this video you said it'll be interesting to see how much better the yields are next year. But how will you know over one season the benefits of the tile? Wouldn't you have to figure it over several years seeing how we don't receive the same rainfall amounts and things like that? I'm just trying to understand what y'all do.
Tile is installed in ground that doesn't drain that well/fast - to help promote a good ratio of Air/water/soil mixture.
It also improves water quality and prevents runoff.
Tile takes ground that doesn't preform like it should and turns it into high performance ground. Most people say 15-20% payback - My guess is closer to a 3 year payback - even shorter if you catch the right year - plus the increase in value of the ground.
You could come to sw Iowa and put some pipe in lol. We have a wheel Machine but I can’t find any help to do any job.
Looks like we might be out of working days. Did you ever send an email about the strAw?
@@iowANFarmer no haven’t had time yet
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I thought the excavator in the thumbnail looked familiar 😂
Why not use an old ripper shank to scrape a line?
We were trying that. I will get back to work on building oneX
Do you have mapping capabilities as well?
Yes
I was expecting a that’s what she said when you said how much snow you were getting
In our soils when we run an 8” we run the 4” first just like you are installing without the pipe, the run 8
Pre rip with the 4”?
@@iowANFarmer yes we run a 3pt soil max. The only issue we have come across is the mound of dirt can start dragging on a 3pt plow. So we push it off the trench after the pre rip. It does a couple thing. You can find the rocks and pretty much pull the plow without a tow
Ben you should have called me. I would have came up and worked for free.... OK, I would have sat in the heated truck to make sure it didnt drive away by itself. However, I would have been the official donut taster. Did your dad not teach you when you leave home for a few days to go somewhere warm...lol Oh by the way.. nothing like seeing a green tractor pulling out a red tractor.....lol
We could have used some help sometimes!
@@iowANFarmer Had I lived near by I would have been more then glad to come out and help
I plead the fifth that I caused the side by side to catch fire 😂
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Just how deep is the topsoil there??
Changes, some of the bottom ground is deep!
Run hydraulic hoses to the tractor on the tile cart and ditch the electric pump.
But we don’t always use it on a tractor
I work for a drainage company here in Ohio, put in around 6 million feet a year and we use Fratco tap tees but we tried some of them same exact red tap tees you had and we hated them but I will admit they do have a stronger hold on the tile
Haven’t tried fratco couplers - I need to try out some of their pipe. What do you think of that!
6 mil feet a year is a lot. I’d like to get to 500000
@iowANFarmer we love the Fratco pipe, we only get it 8" and bigger because we get 4-6 from a local company but we get what they call flexcore so it's smooth inside like dual wall but flexes enough to run through a plow but it is super tough pipe
too bad you can’t do like sewer lines for the clay tile and rotorooter them out lol.
I think you could try something like that. They fill with dirt because of grade issues
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27:27 does BEN NEED ABIGOLE ESCAVATOR??? a DIGGER TO DIG BIG A BIG DIGGER???? :)
Sure do!
Is that pipe gonna be on grade after the spinning and excavator pulling with bucket? I kinda doubt it
Realistically, the pull was very smooth and slow - the plow was able to keep grade. All the LinkBelt did was attached to the tractor.
Just make sure all that power doesn't get into and cross country gas mains I've welded on many u need stay far from them
Won’t even come close to them. Always call 811
Never seen the like.....!!