Animals

Sprinkler moved to new field

This morning, we finished irrigating the field along Ferguson road. The sprinkler and pipe were moved to the field immediately east of the driveway, called the Center field. Our first sprinkler set today was four hours in the northwest corner of Center field. We are looking forward to getting our […]

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Sprinkler problem solved

Sunday morning, we resumed irrigating Ferguson field…but the sprinkler wasn’t working correctly.  It was either not rotating, or rotating very slowly.  The impulse action was very subdued, and the spray pattern was different. Our first thought was: the pump is broken!  But the easier thing to check was the sprinkler. […]

Goulds 53555 irrigation pump
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More irrigation today with new pipe

We needed more distribution pipe to reach the far corners of a couple of fields with our irrigation system, so we bought some poly pipe today. Actually, we picked up a 300-foot roll of K-Line, a kind of poly pipe that works with the fittings we’ve been using. We also […]