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AC7060IL 
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Joined: 19 Aug 2012
Location: central IL
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 Topic: Where are Field Tiles running?
Posted: 01 Dec 2018 at 11:59am |
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It's December 1st & I curious about where field tiles might be running. No pun intended - Haha!
Our central IL field tiles haven't been running for months. Have received 6-7" of precip in last 30days though. Soil profile must be really dry?
Edited by AC7060IL - 01 Dec 2018 at 12:01pm
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Randy WI
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Location: Ogema, WI
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Posted: 01 Dec 2018 at 3:23pm |
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From what I have seen there is nothing lazier than field tile they all want to run down hill.
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PaulB
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Posted: 01 Dec 2018 at 4:49pm |
 Randy WI wrote:
From what I have seen there is nothing lazier than field tile they all want to run down hill. |
Like a FORD
For Only Racing Downhill
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
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SLee(IA)
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Location: Polk City, Iowa
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Posted: 01 Dec 2018 at 8:23pm |
Ours are running full. Have been all year. Even got rain today. Steve
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Dave H
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Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 7:22am |
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The antique one that runs across my property east of Springfield has been running to some extent since this spring.
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 9:29am |
I'm at the top of a hill... and have two sump pumps at opposite corners of my house (it's enveloped on all sides by an addition)... when the soil is really, really wet, moisture comes in under the EPDM skirt (which tapers out about 6' from the house, goes down about 6' from the surface, and has a drain tile towards the road in it). To have moisture that deep, means there's lots...
Then I have another sump under the furnace room... down 5' below the basement floor, which is 8' below the grade outdoors. It has a small pump controlled by two switches (high and low) and a relay. This is where my condensate drains for HVAC all go... and it's typically dry, but water in that sump means groundwater level on top of the hill is high. MOST of the time, that sump is dry, but for the last three months, the pump has been running every hour and a half, for about a minute... so our groundwater has NOT been 'low' by any means. I suspect that the trees and fields will probably grow pretty well next spring...
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Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest.
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ac fleet
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Posted: 02 Dec 2018 at 11:36am |
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Mine are running at the farm.
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ac hunter
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Posted: 03 Dec 2018 at 7:38am |
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We have an outlet not far from the house and it has been running most of the summer and pretty full now. Haven't kept real good track of how much rain we have gotten but with info from a cousin and some of mine we have gotten about 30 inches of precip. since the first of July. That's not far from the average for the whole year. It is so wet here I'm not sure you could walk across some places. Still a fair amount of crops not harvested. The corn had mold in it 4-6 weeks ago and it must be worse now. Not sure about how bad the soy beans are.
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CrestonM
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Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 5:19pm |
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As an Oklahoman, I still can't grasp the concept of piping water OUT of fields, when we are always either piping water IN or praying for rain.
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 05 Dec 2018 at 6:40pm |
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Not here that's for sure, even after 21" of rain in Aug. It was that dry here all summer.
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