Built One-Of-A Kind Tile Plow For New York Grape Grower

Built One-Of-A Kind Tile Plow For New York Grape Grower MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 28-6-41 I recently custom built a one-of-a-kind tile plow for a New York grape grower, Clyde Burnham of Northeast, Pennsylvania. The machine is designed to lay small 3-in. dia. tile only 3 ft. deep, between rows of grapevines spaced 9 ft. apart. Conventional drainage tile is usually 4 or 5 in. in diameter and requires a much bigger tractor which won't fit between rows of grapevines. Burnham uses a 135 hp tractor to pull one of our Farm Drainage plows. We built a special 5-in. wide "flat front" on the tile plow in order to accommodate the narrow 3-in. tile. The 3-in. tile feeds into a 4-in. main. Burnham has used the machine to install about 19,000 ft. of tile. Last summer he had a lot of rain but it wasn't a problem because even though the tile is relatively small, it drains out a lot of water. He was really happy with it. The driveways between grapevines were so wet he couldn't get any machines on them. The tile helped tremendously. (Don Wurdinger, Farm Drainage Plows, Inc., 909 4th St. N.W., Waverly, Iowa 50677 ph 319 352-3911)

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