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southern MN | 1. Need to be experienced with an excavator, you need a very level bottom. Any dips in the tile gather sediment and fill up.
2. Depends on your soil, clay to sand, as to what you need for tile sock. Don't think I've ever seen tile sock in my dirt, other areas they need to all the time. There are different type holes in tile from round to slots to slits for different conditions as well.
3. Never heard of rock used to bed tile here; but I see in some places they have special machines to feed rock in the trench, do it all the time. So it must depend....
4. The old timers would lay down hay to bed the tile. I wonder if that was to make it easier to stand in the mud and dig the trench, set the tile by hand?
5. We have a sandy knob hill, dad would dump sand in the trench on top of the tile in low spots to help water funnel to the tile in our clay soils. Not sure of the return on that idea, but seems plausible.
I numbered them, so folks can pick apart my ideas and challenge them easily - it seems different in different soil types?
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Proper way to install field tile
