West Union, IOWA FLOLO Farm 52175 | paul the original - 9/11/2010 01:25
The tile guys are very good at looking at arial photos from 1992 (wet year) and seeing the tile on the maps. Doesn't take them long to probe and find the lines. I told them a couple places I donno exactly where but a tile is abouyt here somewhere. They got it in 5-10 minutes.
If you dead end the tile, you are just moving your wet spot. You can 'end' on a waterway or something that will let the water run to a ditch/stream/creek, but if you just deadend in another area with no outlet, you only move the wet area, it doesn't go away. Dirt is a sponge, if you have a wet spot the ground is saturated, a whole lot more water than what is sitting on top. Tile will move a lot of water. You empty the whole sponge.
How different wet heavy clay soils are from the soils/ rainfall some of you deal with.
--->Paul
Paul moving the wet spot can be a good thing, and used to be common pratice on a farm we have....They simply tiled to the sand with NO outlet.
We always questioned the old guy when he said the field was tiled without an outlet.....and when we joined it with 2 other farms we dug through a hill and got that piece an outlet....To this day it has to be a very big rain event to see that outlet wet...(It ran at time this year) and we've added several 1000 feet above it. The biggest thing we notice now....it works more like a subsurface irragation deal. The more tile we hook up on the top side....the longer the sand on the bottom end last....
Edited by loran 9/11/2010 18:47
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