The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-03
IMPORTANCE OF CONCRETE
DRAIN TILE ON FARM
Becomes Harder and Stronger With Age and Can Be Made
as Porous as Those Made OF Clay
Retains It's Shape.

Concrete tile become harder and
stronger with age and may be made
as porous as clay tile; In comparison
the clay tile becomes water-soaked
and d~isintegrates in the years Of SER
vice, thus causing broken tile and a
useless drain.
This is easily demonstrated by Ia
king up concrete tile and clay tile that
have been imbedded in the grouIi;
while the former are as strong as one
could wish and lift easily, the clay
are brittle, and must be handled with
extreme care to prevent breakage.
Again, to employ vitrifed clay tile
Is 70 make a drain that does not alb
sorb water from the soil except at the
Joints; while a concrete tile has all
the advantages of being porous and
yet fully as strong as the best vitri-
6ed tile.
The simple machine illustrated with
this article may be built in any size
at a slight cost, and will enable any
one to make the best quality of con-
crete tile at a cost of So cents a rod
when made in the finch size; n
cents a rod for 5-inch: SS cents for
s-inch; $1.10 for s-inch; s1.e5 for o
inch; S1.sS for 10-inch, and 1884 for
Pinch tile.
The cost is based on sand at rs
cents a cubic yard; cement at 50 per
barrel; labor at 81. a day. The tile
are made as strong Jas possible. using
,ne part cement to three parts of the
gravel, which will give them all the
strength needed for any service.
The 4-inch tile are made three-quar-
.ers OF an inch thick: the 5, 6, and s.
inch tile are made one inch thick; the
; and 10-inch are made 1 SIS inches
.hick. and the Pinch IL inches
thick.
In this manner you can estimate
he cost of your drain and easily COM
pare with the cost of clay tile OF the
:1me size.
BY employing the proper methods
for hand ing concrete in the winter,
rou may employ your spare time
Turing the winter in making this
nuch-needed article on the farm, and
lhus save the cost of labor, which is
he greatest item in the above table
If costs, averaging from "A to II cents
per rod of tile.
The machine explained in this arti-
Gle is n making a 6-inch tile. and
rom this explanation any other tile
may be easily constructed.
A box form is built of two boards
Is inches long and : inches wide.
And two boards is inches long and 10
inches wide. These are joined to-
gether to make a form, the inside
measurements being SKIS inches and
Is inches high.
Fasten these boards together with
Two hinges at each of three
md the fourth corner fasten with
two hooks and eyelets as shown In
The illustration; this allows the ma
thine to be folded back from the tile
without injury.
Now nail in each corner of this box
lone three-cornered or beveled strips
Is inches long. but nail to just one
side of board only, which will hold
hem In place and yet allow the ma
thine to fold back from the work
EASILY.
For the core take a 6-inch stove
pipe "a inches long and inside same
place a 6-inch board &c inches long,
FALLING securely as shown In the Illus
ration. The top of this board is cut
10 make a handle to draw out the
tore. as Illustrated
The bottom is cut down to leave a
small three-quarters -of-an-inch projec-
don or pin on same. which sets into
The holes bored in the pallet, thus In
puring the core being always in the
center of the form.
The pallets are made of any boards
larger than the form used for mold
Ing the tile, and in the center is bored
! three-quarterinch hole to receive
he pin on the bottom OF the board In
the core.