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| It depends. We recently tiled a 60 for a customer, pock-marked with drown out spots, with (1) 12" main, (2) 8" mains, and a 6" main. 4" on 50' spacing, silty clay loam, 36-42" deep, .1% slope, all installed with a wheel trencher. $60,000. The customer wished he would have made the investment sooner. The farm went from his biggest aggravation, bottom loser to something that he enjoys farming.
I just bid a job. 485 acres continuous. Multiple mains from 24"-10". Sandy clay loam with abundant iron oxides , 4" muck nit tile at 50'. Three major utilities to cross, existing pivots with water and electric, major diked county ditch with permit and design considerations. A lot of excavator work with cave-in safety precautions (6' to 16' deep on the major 24" main). Proposed seed corn production. $1500/ac. NW Indiana. | |
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Drain Tile Cost Per Acre?
