My tiler said tile co has 5 semis a day to supply the entire SW 1/3 of the state.
My tiler can get one semi a week at this time, and he does! If you are a regular customer you get some, if you are part time you won't, if you are a farmer you won't when supplies are this tight.
My tiler works with them a lot, butters the right bread, and orders ahead.
For the August big main job, we stacked the 15 and 12 inch tile on my farm, ordered in March, took delivery in May.
They reworked the production line in the plant near me, good news it makes ~1/3 more tile per day than it did, bad news is it was down a long while in middle of summer while they reworked it so they ran out of reserves - their yard has looked bare all spring & summer & fall, typically it builds up a lot in mid summer. And now everyone owns their own tile plow, and call in mid September all at the same time.... If one owns a tile plow, call in May, you'll get some in fall...
With that kind of demand, prices go up. If you need some next spring, order ealy. I believe tiler said there were 3 price increases between the time we ordered the big main line and when we installed it, we got the 2200 feet for a good price looking back.
The neighbor's small job of ~2000ft turned into 9000 ft, and while waiting for that to get surveyed out, they put in about 9000 ft on my property on '2-4 small wet spots, whatever you have time for, short line or 2 each spot'. These jobs keep snowballing bigger & bigger, tile gets used up. :)
Think I've put in $50,000 of tile on a very small farm in the past 4 years that dad had the low spots tiled in the 60's. Looking at a 30 next year there are 2 mains in it, but rolling hills, like 8 little damp areas that accumulate water in wet periods, had poor corn on 8 acres of it this year, thought the drought woulda hurt me, but no it was the wet cool spring, corn didn't grow in the wet spots. 8 acres of corn gave 50bu instead of 170 bu, $6 a bu, doesn't take long to pay for tile, rather than paying the $6000 - 9000 land or $300-410 acre rents going on around here.
When corn goes back to $3, the tile will be paid for and still helping me gain some income year after year. Much much better return on tile than trying to buy into more land at this time!
I know you understand all that, just pointing out for others what we are talking about with tile in our part of the world....
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