<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Alan Nadeau <<a href="mailto:reloader1968@gmail.com" class="">reloader1968@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">My guess would be that it was another variation of drainage tile, hence the common name of "Field Tile". Way back, about the time the dinosaurs died off there was a lot of it used around here. It was usually around 4" OD and 16-18" long. I recently found some, in the process of digging a drainage ditch, that was smaller and looked like this " </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">O</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> " a round, hollow tube with a flat base.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">That’s what I remember of the ones used in New Zealand - that they had a flat on the bottom, so you could line them up I guess and not have them roll around - perhaps helped with stacking them too if they couldn’t roll around.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Roger</div></body></html>