I was 13 years old during my Christmas Vacation in 1972 and spent 6 days working with one of those tile trenching machines. It pulled a wagon with a pallet of clay tile 4x12 in. There was a rack in the boot behind the digging wheel were you placed the drain tile bottom up were there were 4 rows with 4 holes in each row on the bottom half of the tile. Being in the thumb of Michigan we had to clean the machine every night so the dirt and mud would not freeze to the trench. We did the same thing as the guy with the shovel but on both sides. This was to put enough cover so tile clay tile would not freeze because we were not back filling to spring. KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING. Versatiles are some of my favorite tractors and I really like there new colors.

The farmers in this video are top notch! I live a couple miles away from them. My family also farms in the area and have had them ditch a few of our fields as well. I would love to apprentice with them and learn. Great video thanks Mike.

Good to see this little known aspect of farming and helping to grow the nation’s crops

I worked at Speicher in 1977. First job out of high school. Speicher also made a backfiller similar to the Versatile in this video. They make Theiman lift gates in the old Speicher building now.

Mike - Another great video showing how tiling is done. I had never seen this operation before, but had relatives in Nebraska who had it done on their farm. I understood how it works, but now know how the tile lines are put in place - simple, but very effective. Thanks for sharing this.

Great pictures! Thx for showing!👍🏻

This is good stuff👍 Neat to see the pre-season work that goes into making a crop farm work well with the local climate!

...... and it's all Old Codgers doing the work! Never too late to be a Star on Mike's Channel! Thanks Mike! I'm really interested in that Soil Auger for back-filling - never seen before -any good for Hi-Speed snow-clearance, maybe with Plastic or Bristle Auger? Would be a Beast on front of my Hydro Unimog Wish my drainage was as easy as that - couldn't even THINK of pulling those machines through our stoney or slippery clay soils. Have a great Easter, despite our social problems.

Mike , Speicher made the 600 with in line 6 cylinders, 6060 trencher with 318 Chrysler gas motor. Then came 6160 ( in this video) they put 471 Detroit motor and Browns hydrostatic drive for the traction. Then came 7160 with heavier frame the finally 7160 with the digging drive housing went up and down on the up rights rail I beams with the digging frame.

Those Deere tractors with the cumming engines are probably the best low rpm high torque tractors Deere had.

Your channel is probably the only one so interesting and informative, where you can see what agriculture looks like overseas. For me living in Poland, and also a farmer is a very interesting experience. Greetings from Poland!

Cool to see the bi directional working 👍

Love to see the tile going in the ground. This is the same way we tile in Central Illinois.

Love that 8960.thanks mike

The bidirectional tractor is a neat machine but a small bulldozer would run circles around it backfilling and it could double as an anchor point for the trencher winch.

amazing machines

Nice looking farm ground!

This is awsome. I'm a truck driver for Baughman Tile.

Interesting video indeed. Had a buddy that did field drainage back in the day, he had a Steiger Tiger, it worked 👍

Never seen a wonder wheel where it wasn't used on the railroad. Those things eat track switches, and wires for a living. Really cool. IF the field floods it will also help. We had too much rain last year.

Wish I were a farmer. Thanks Mike

Great video Mike

The trencher sounded like it was powered by a Detroit two stroke diesel!

Great job

Old clay main - don't see much of those left these days around here. Most are broken or caved in - lots of the fields around here are tiled. Was such a wet year here last year. A lot of fields didn't get planted or had bad wet spots even if tilled. Thank you for the video. Take care 'Spin"

Speicher machinery was made in Celina, Ohio. On portland st. SPEICHER BROTHERS .

The septic company that my son works for has one of the yellow trenchers over in Northeast IN.

Nice vid Mike!

I like the old Chevy dually

Nice vid mike 👌👍

You can see the tile plow run through the drowned out spots from last year which shows the reason they need the tiles.

Great video Mike sounds from that John Deere loads of grunt 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We do some tiling on our farm as well. We've got a 9560rt with a lebriect plow.

Ideally, that backfiller on the bi-directional, would run the other way. This would allow the backfiller to follow right behind the wheel trencher, since the wheel trencher usually puts the dirt out on the left side. As it is now, the wheel trencher has to go always before the backfiller has enough open trench to make it worth running.

How does the run off effect the water quality down stream? When you top dress with liquid manure? Could you hook the drain tile to a water tank for storage and future use in a drought situation? And there by keeping your farm runoff to a minimum. Cause when driving by it reminds me of a straight pipe up a holler in Kentucky and those are bad.

Speicher Tandem Traction Trencher. Built by Speicher Bros. in Celina, Ohio

I am guessing this tile is not perforated, as I do not see any pea gravel going in the shield to surround the tile line.. I am guessing the wheel trencher is USA manufactured because it is running a Detroit Diesel.. Maybe a 453.. No mistaking that screaming Jemmy.

If you watch iowANFarmer channel, Why am I putting in pattern tile? There is another video after also and this guy explains tons of information on this tile machine... thx for the video.

i don't understand why the back fill the clay directly onto the pipe? would it not be better to coat the pipe with some single or the like?

thank for the video. But where all the waters go ?

Hey Mike If you want more infor on the wheel trencher Look up IA Farmer on youtube Several videos published about a week ago now using this trencher (recognized the operator) and on several of them go into specific detail

That deere wasn't even breathing hard pulling that tile plow....almost makes you want to buy a deere.... right Mike?!?! Hehe.

That Versatile BiDirectional tractor is coo

Drove a new one of them, my how time flys Vesatile bi directtional that is. The air conditioning compressor keep quitting.

The tile plows are still made here in Minasota

one thing do the in fill sink and what do they do with the spoil left over also do they fill in when it settles could be weak spot in the field later for machinery to get stuck in

With my versatile 256, I have a post puller, pallet forks, auger, grapple fork, bucket, bale spear but not a whatever the hell machine that is. I want one...

Always wondered why a backhoe wasn't totally useless.

sound like a Detroit Diesel engine

The yellow digger, and man running it looks to be the one I saw on a Iowa You too. ??

How deep is the tile usually placed?

you should get one of them farming

What's the permitting process like?

It is a speicher 600 trencher there is a picture showing it

Watch iowANFarmer they were using the same tile trencher

Hey Mike, great stuff. Maybe you would have time to look up iowANFarmer here on YT, he have put up some videos recently about how they use similar equipment to do some tile work, they also used a wheel trencher. And the guy running it in his videos gave a very good explanation about that machine.

Trencher was made in Celina, Ohio, see patent for details...patents.google.com/patent/US3049816

First one to like this video

Why do they not have ear defenders on ?

I knew it was a Detroit Diesel right off, maybe a 4-71?

Also known as laying the pipe

can i use some off your videos, to do a "farming tribute" ?

Que asen con eso , ponen agua? O sacan agua?,puede alguno explicarme

Is that you in the kubota? No I see someone else!

Was up in your area on the 10th do you know the history on the 90 acre farm on 127 that is for sale.

I dont know how this will work in the long run without ston- or clean gravel all around the pipe ,after time it will cloug up with soil

Hi check out iowANFarmer videos he currently running 1 of those trenching machines gives loads of info on them . Good video Mike cheers 👍

I guess no water came out.

from France: your drains are very big, why? , we drain with 32'', drains 60''. What slope do you have? because you have little relief... Your slicer is in fine earth, if there were rocks or limestone or flint, the knives at us would melt like butter in the sun (we put 1/2 buckets carbide/tungsten) and the drainer would jump like a goat! , for plugging a bull with an angled blade is enough. What are your coupling clips, Otherwise good work. French farmer vetérans drainer

sorry had to give a thumbs down. i can live 2 or 3 adds but that was over the top