Posted by onefarmer on April 24, 2008 at 05:11:20 from (216.93.96.21):
In Reply to: field tile posted by billonthefarm on April 23, 2008 at 20:50:46:
Yep When i was kid I had to work beside one of those wheel machines feeding in the clay tile, when my grandfather was having it put in. Also ran the shovel to heal in the tile, that is cover it up with some topsoil. This I'm told helps get the water into the tile since our ground has alot of clay. Later they converted it to lay plastic tile. Basicly they put a wheel rim in the bottom of the shoe to guide the tile. Now they use a D9 Cat with a plow. They can have 20 acres done in the time it takes for the old wheel machine to do a few runs. They still use the wheel in fields that may have alot of rocks or tree roots.
The big boys have a truck with a gps and laser unit. They drive over the field and it maps the ground elevations. Then the feed the data into a computer and it spits out a map of where to lay the tile according to the lay of the land
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