My field problem was two fold. First of all the guy installing it 35 years ago came out with one line and ran it 400'. The correct way would have been to make a fish bone with one short straight run and many offshoots to the side which is the way it was done down in the Houston area.
The second problem is that he used the thin wall, black, corrugated, drain pipe that you could crush with your bare hands. I don't doubt that it didn't get crushed in the initial dirt fill over it.
The replacement was, at my direction a fishbone as I stated above. Second he used PVC drain pipe that I could jump up and down on and it wouldn't crack and collapse, and third, he covered the rock with a plastic sheet rather than hay to keep the dirt out of the rocks.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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