Underground Surprise Found Repairing Drain Tile

[ohsam]

My brother always use to talk about the drain tiles on his property and I never knew wtf he was talking about until now. Thank you for that. A video I didn't even know I needed.

[spencerferrier]

I didn't even know that this was a thing.🤷
And now I'm reading on tile drainage set-ups, saturated buffer strips, water control structures, and denitrifying runoff.

Thanks for the accidental lesson in agricultural infrastructure! It's pretty interesting, honestly!

[blood_upon_the_rose]

Better watch out the oak island boys will come and make a 17 year program on absolutely nothing 😂

[theusher]

Had no idea fields used this kind of drainage system. That's fascinating

[DiabloBlanquecino]

“No wonder that one row of corn was always twice as high as the rest”🤔

[treemanclint]

In 1922 my great grandfather bought an 80 acre farm. In 1986 my grandpa paid for field tile to be laid in the field north of the house. Much to everyone's surprise, the field was already tiled but not how we think of it in the modern sense. Someone before us, nailed poplar 1" by 8" boards together into a V and laid upside down. Was all on grade and was over 6 feet in the ground where it dumped out. Never forget how clean the boards looked; like they just been sawn.

[dorthyjamieson]

My grandpa's farm was tiled in the 50s and had to work with neighbors as tile involved their fields, too. In 1980s had to redo tile as the old clay tile broke down.

[bradsmith]

A farmer is someone that tackles surprise jobs that a crew of people should handle and does it alone and without complaints

[Antiquefarmequipment]

Next door neighbor "any idea why my well is going dry??" 😂😂

[TheBitter]

I love how the close captioning for this showed the sound of the running water as "Applause". Had a good chuckle.

[bradparker]

When we dug the hole for the basement in our new house we hit an old unknown drain tile. The water wouldn’t stop flowing. We had to go out in back of the hole about 100 yards and dig till we hit a run. Once we were able to break the runs(there were 2 of them) the water stopped. It filled the entire basement and had to be pumped out. Apparently the entire property had been tiled as farm land 100 years ago. The amazing thing was the whole system was put in using 16 inch individual clay tiles. Almost felt bad destroying it.

[gilabird]

Back in the 70's, we built a new home's block foundation in an open field for a farmer's son. We finished up on a Friday and it rained like heck all weekend. The new foundation imploded on itself because there was a big 6" field tile he never cut off. It filled the excavated hole to to the top before the walls were braced up for backfilling. We came back to a swimming pool on Monday with no block walls in sight.

[Sam.Sung_]

That's too much excitement for my day.

[Siouxperman]

Farmers are the real reason Americans eat. Thank you much

[kyjimbo]

People think Kansas is flat! I'd never heard of farmers having drain tiles under the fields until I worked with a man who grew up in Illinois. His job as a young man was to repair those drain tiles

[flexabu]

So interesting watching this from California. You guys work to get water off the field and we do everything we can to get it on the field!

[BabyBoomer]

Farming is a vocation a person is born into. Went to the country 3 times and was sent back to the city by the lack of knowledge and grit necessary for survival. All respect to the American Farmer from Metro Detroit 👍

[Ratrazor]

Crazy to see water flowing underground on a dry field

[andrewennis]

Farmers back in the 1800s and earlier would connect under ground pipes and box drain from rivers to flow in to grow crops.

[danmartens]

They didn't start making accurate maps of agricultural drainage tile until the 60's. Some of those old lines are still working.