Posted by WellWorn on November 06, 2014 at 15:48:59 from (75.213.245.152):
In Reply to: Field Tiling posted by Curt Cooke on November 05, 2014 at 07:48:24:
This place has notably heavy soils and should be tiled, but I'm not sure how much it would help. We have surface water standing only a few feet from a ditch, often 2 or 3 days after it's rained. This past June I dug a couple post holes for a gate about 100' away and 6' higher than the the creek, and while damp at the surface, by the time I got to 2' deep I could bail a quart coffee can about every 2 minutes, meaning they each flowed better than 7 gallons an hour.
About 8 of the 10 "usable" acres here have no good place to drain to, either not being high enough from the road ditch and creek, or without cutting 10-12' deep through a knoll to get sufficient depth at the top (south end) of the fields, and sufficient drop at the bottom (north end). There is a slight surface slope from west to east that goes to a couple drain tiles under a private ROW (with a buried gas line on it), and nothing significantly lower on the other side of that. Most of the bigger field is practically swamp at the higher west side.
I only partly joke with the wife that we should take up raising rice, or cranberries, if we weren't too old to start over.
I figure it would cost more to properly tile this place than it would to sell it at half price and move, and all that extra water going down the creek could cause flooding down hill of us even in a dry spell.
Maybe Nestle or Coke will make us an offer we can't refuse for rights to all this spring water we're sitting on, but I won't hold my breath.
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