Re: Drainage Tile......what are they?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 18, 2005 at 07:26:03 from (64.228.11.185):

In Reply to: Drainage Tile......what are they? posted by Ken in Pa on January 17, 2005 at 16:47:02:

Ken: Besides improving the trafficability of your soil usually early in spring and late fall. Tile is intended to lower the water table in the soil. Basically trying to make that water table more perminant. This encourages young newly planted crops to establish a more massive root system, going for that water. Many young crops will start off great get to water table and stop root production. Problem is once that root production stops, it will not start again, thus by mid summer you have a water table couple of feet below the crops root system.

I'm sure some of the sites others advised you to visit will explain this better than I.

On underground field drainage the earliest I've seen were rock drains, a trench was dug about 3' deep and about 18" of field rock placed in bottom and covered with soil. I've seen box drains built from lumber with drilled holes. Another is round logs about 4" to 6" in diameter with a hole drilled the length of them, water entered at the joints much like the clay tile. Of course the clay tile and the modern plastic being used most everywhere today. Don't see wood or even clay tile being used much any more.

I dug up on my farm once an old water line made from wood. They drilled a 2" hole the entire 10' length of a 6" log, tapered ends as cones and points, and hammered them together. This system was piped almost 800' to a resovoir up hill from farm buildings. I understand the family had graviety running water and bathroom 50 years before electricity. I know of another system using same type of wood pipe and pumping water to resovoir on a hill to give steady graviety water supply.

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