Find the bad tile. Dig once.
Owning a push camera means checking your drainage tile on your own time. No more waiting on someone else. Find exactly where the blockage or broken tile is from above, and stop ripping up good pipe and crop to find it.
▶ Watch Larson Farms use our mC80 on their tileFour steps from wet spot to fixed tile
Push the camera
Feed the mC80 down the tile from the outlet or a riser and watch it live on the 8″ screen.
Walk the line
A Vivax-Metrotech locator picks up the 512 Hz sonde in the camera head from above.
Mark the spot
Flag the break, root ball or blockage right where the locator says, and note its approximate depth.
Dig once
One hole in the right place, not a trench across good tile and crop. (Larson Farms pulling a root-plugged tile.)
Guess & trench
- Wait on someone else to come look
- Dig where the water shows up and hope
- Tear up good tile and standing crop to find it
- Do it again next year
See it & dig once
- Check tile on your own time, any day
- See roots, silt, crushed or separated tile
- Locate the camera head from above, with depth
- One hole, in the right spot
Our own mC80 on a Minnesota farm
Tap a reel to play or pause.
Larson Farms runs our mC80
Chet Larson and the Larson Farms crew run a Rausch mC80 push camera from Jet Line Sales on their drain tile, and they film the work for their YouTube channel. Watch them track down gopher damage, flooded tile and tree roots, then dig in the right spot.
Larson Farms on YouTube →
The Gophers Are Destroying Our Tile System!!
Mother Nature Is Flooding Us Off The Map!!
Training The New Guy: Why Tree Roots Suck!
Inspect it, locate it, clean it
Rausch mC80
425 ft · field tile best seller
→Locator packages
Vivax-Metrotech vLoc3-Pro
→mC50 & Duo
2.8″ to 5.5″ lines
→Trailer jetters
Clean silted tile
→Jetting nozzles
USB-USA, Hydra-Flex
→Jet carts
Wash bays & shops
→All push cameras
Rausch lineup
→Repairs & reterms
Our Kensington, MN shop
→Loaner cameras
Keep working during repairs
→Tax breaks & financing
See what your farm qualifies for
→Push camera in action
Our own video: a minCam push camera inspecting drainage tile.
More on our YouTube →Write it off or finance it
Farm equipment usually doesn't qualify for city water grants, but these lower what you pay.
Bonus depreciation
Write off new equipment the year it goes into service. Ask your accountant.
Section 179
Expense qualifying equipment instead of depreciating it over years.
Payments that fit
We work with lenders who finance equipment.
Workers' comp programs
Some state programs also cover farm employers.
From a farm customer
“I bought the Rausch Push Camera System for inspecting drain tile, along with the locator. This system has saved countless hours solving many drainage issues. It has already paid for itself in time and materials saved.”
Dave S., Staples Farm
More reviews →Your Rausch push camera dealer
Demo in your field
We bring a camera out and run it in your own tile.
Training
In person, or by phone and video if you're out of state. Service training
Repairs & reterms
Rausch repairs, cable reterms and parts in our Kensington, MN shop. General repairs
Loaners
Keep working while yours is in for service. Rausch loaner program
Farm & tile questions
Is a push camera worth it for field tile?
If you fix tile every year, owning one means you check it on your own time instead of waiting on someone else, and you dig in the right spot instead of tearing up good tile and crop.
Which camera is best for tile?
The Rausch mC80 is our best seller for field tile: 425 ft of stiff push rod, a self-leveling camera head for tile 3″ and up, a 512 Hz sonde (33 kHz available) so a locator can find the head from above, a built-in battery, and video and photo recording to an SD card.
How do I find where the problem is?
Pair the camera with a Vivax-Metrotech locator. Push the camera to the problem, walk the line with the locator, and it shows you where the camera head is and about how deep.
Can it run off my UTV?
Yes. The mC80 has a built-in battery for 4+ hours and a 12V car charger adapter, and it rides on a UTV to get out to the field.
Can I clean the tile too?
Yes. A trailer jetter with the right nozzle flushes silt and roots out of tile lines. We will help match the jetter and nozzle to your tile size.
Do you ship and train outside your area?
Rausch push cameras ship anywhere in the U.S., and we train by phone or video. Repairs, cable reterms and loaners come out of our Kensington, MN shop.
Can I write it off or finance it?
New equipment can qualify for 100% bonus depreciation and Section 179; ask your accountant (Jet Line is not a tax advisor). We also work with lenders who finance equipment.
Stop guessing where the tile is broken
Tell us your tile sizes and how long your runs are. We will match a camera and locator and bring it out to your field.