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Tiling the ditch..

big tee

big tee

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The wife got stuck earlier this spring with her lawn mower and we always joked about tiling the ditch in front of our house. So we did it today. We have a tile plow on the back of our old Steiger but this would be over kill and would make to big of a mess. So I took my Deere 22A one shank ripper and added a four inch air cleaner pipe from a Deere 7700 combine from our demo derby days. We ran it about 1.5 ft. deep and I thought I could pull it myself but couldn't. So my Son got done spraying at home and got the 3020 to help out the 4240. We put in 290 ft. of 3 inch tile at 31 cents per ft. This is the first time we used it and was surprised how good it worked. The wife likes to mow lawn and I don't so I try to keep her happy.---Tee
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Iowa one call--Pipe line is 100 yd. west and telephone line is on East side I driveway.---Tee
 
Come over and do mine,those front deck JD are a pain when you get them stuck. The neighbor saw I was stuck a few years ago and brought his son s Minni Moline over to pull me out,he did it, but dug some big holes doing it.
 
We put one in my neighbors mom yard and she was amazed how fast it dried up her yard. She would not let us cut down a Willow tree by the tile and a few years later it was plugged solid with roots. We dozed the tree out and I plowed in a new 4" tile.
 
Good job!!! I made a small version to plow in electric wire. It is amazing how you can bury stuff in a hurry. Your wife will be happy when it dries out.
 
If you look close in the first picture you will see two signs by the second pole. First sign -Alliance, 36 in.-1999. Second sign-Kinder-Morgan, 18 in.-1978---Tee
 
I do a lot of work for Northern Natural Gas, always interested in pipelines.

That is quite a load you are pulling with those tractors, really surprised it is not making ruts.

Will be nice when done.
 
Tee, did you put wheels on an LP tank or has it been repurposed for something else? Pretty clever! I just keep an old dolly strapped to mine
 
Actually, the commercial ones do that, the vibration is actuated hydraulically, so reduces the HP needed on the wheels. I do not know if you can buy them for the center links, but would imagine you can. I am pretty impressed with what you have done, I need to put one in behind my house and could use it.
 
I will buy the gas and the beer if you want to come over for a day, can find a tractor here to hook up.

How much HP do you think it would handle?
 
If you want to modify that baby with a vibrator you can use an old hydraulic one from something. Lots of concrete form vibrators out there. It is incredible how much vibration can come out of such a small unit.
 
Like with our big plow on our Steiger--it is traction, not horsepower. I had the plow in the hole and let the clutch out on the 4240 in slowest gear-A-1-spun. The ditch had water in it 4 to 5 days ago so it was not overly dry.---Tee-- PS, what kind on beer? Cold and free are my favorite kinds!!
 
We haul a lot of feed out of a used-to-be Kinder Morgan terminal in Omaha. I never knew they had pipelines. Learn something new every day.
 
KCM-At first I couldn't figure what you were talking about until I went back and looked at the pictures. Yes I made my own air tank. Harbor freight wheels. Hope the YT people don't get on me for welding on a lp tank but I took the valve off and aired it for days and had a compressed air line blowing air in it while I welded the stuff on it.---Tee
 
When they first put it in it was owned by Dome but it has changed owners a lot.---Tee
 
That is a really nice implement that you made. When they put in the fiber optic cable phone lines they had a tool like that on a big caterpillar crawler and another one with just the ripper. Sometimes they would both rip, one behind the other with out any cable and then go back and lay cable.
 
we have a pipeline that runs thru one of our farms and we are not allowed to drive over it. seems the pipe is floating up and in some place only a couple of feet deep. After the flood of 08 the pipe was exposed on my neighbors and there was marks where the ripper hit it!
 
I like the thought of the small tile plow for working in the yard. In the field we generally run the plow through first without tile to get the trench started then go back in the same trench and lay it. It establishes the trench and it pulls much easier.
 
Good job, I sure see no landowner disrespect for nature, if anything you were helping nature by not digging a big ditch.
 
My friend has a gasoline pipeline running through his farm, some places it is less than 18" deep, so similar restrictions.
 
I've had my front deck for 10 years and never been stuck with the FWD. In the winter I quit using the chains. I just put narrower tires on the front. I do mow wet areas when the water disappears.
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4520--I hear you, After we one call and they come out to locate they will stay and watch if we all closer than I believe 50 yards. We have dealt with the pipeline people for years and when we tell them what we are going to do they work with us real good. The one they put in 78 is not nearly as deep. It was so wet and they had a heck of a time. They were hooking Cats on the front of the pipe hauling trucks and pulling them into.---Tee
 
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