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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] irrigation
  • Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:19:14 -0500 (CDT)

I think that sounds like a good arrangement. For Wyatt's purposes, I would
suggest doing a search for an irrigation products dealer within reasonable
driving distance. Most dealers I've known have been an excellent source of
irrigation knowledge. And I really respect that, Engineering water is much
more complicated than most people realize. If you can find a good dealer who
is willing to offer technical support, its worth it to throw your business to
them.

Bill



>
> Wyatt, I irrigate sweetcorn with a big gun type
> sprinkler placed on stations. I lay a 4" aluminum
> pipe between 40 rows of corn and there are tees
> called gun stations every 160 ft. in the pipe line
> where the movable gun is attached to. I water on one
> station for two hours then move the gun to the next
> station and so on until I get to the end of the
> field. This is how it was done before hard hose
> travelers were developed... Bob.
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
>
> --- wyatt_jones AT netzero.com wrote:
>
> From: "Wyatt Jones" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
> To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] irrigation
> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:42:49 -0400
>
> I try not to use irrigation as a "rescue technique"
> but that's the way its turned out this year as
> everything has been breaking and I end up having to
> let it go to get other things done. >From now on
> every fitting that I can get in metal is going to be
> metal. All the plastic I used was UV resistant but
> one after the other has split slowly but surely for
> some reason. I'm done my share of plumbing and
> never had any problems but this is a large outdoor
> scale than I'm used to.
>
> Is there a good website on those sprayer devices you
> mentioned Bill? I only have 53psi but I have a
> pretty good pump and fair amount of water capacity
> although its not huge. I wonder if there is some
> way to cut back on the flow of those sprayers so
> they can keep up the pressure and work with less
> flow, moving slower to get the coverage. I'm only
> planning to use it on sweet corn and pumpkins, mixed
> with winter squash with soybeans planted as a cover
> crop in between the rows. I'll have to look around
> I guess. I've been thinking about those but
> everything I saw was rather small for any sort of
> acreage.
>
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