got a dog named Devon and a cat named Scooter and a She cat named Fluffy
Joined: Dec 3, 2002
Points: 677
Hot and dry in Louisiana Original Message Jul 26, 2005 2:41 pm
Just wanted all to know I am still doing extremely well in my Heart surgery recovery. Working a little more each week but we have a heat wave and drought that is unreal in my area. Keep my irrigation system going regularly on my pecan orchard. Getting stronger evesry day. I can do that irrigation without much effort. Hope this finds all of you my friends doing well and may the God of this world continue to bless you and keep not just today but always---Will
got a dog named Devon and a cat named Scooter and a She cat named Fluffy
Joined: Dec 3, 2002
Points: 677
Re: Hot and dry in Louisiana Reply #9 Jul 27, 2005 7:01 pm
Ajace- Some of my friends do not take the lines up . The heavy shaker that I use is too hard to manipulate in between these lines. . It will crush any of it if you happen to run over it. It is as big as a 1 ton truck and you usually shake a tree from 2 sides. Hard to manipulate it in between these lines. All of it above ground. My trunk or water deliver lines are 1 1/4 PVC. They go down have way and make a tee across my complete orchard. The 16 MM (1/2") are the water deliver lines. They come out from the 1 1/4 line that is teed across the orchard. There is one every 40 foot. That is the spacing of the trees . On small trees the trees get their water from only one line. On the large trees they get water from 3 lines---one line that goes by the tree and a line on each side. The PVC 1 1/2 lines are cut in 209 foot joints, ends sealed with tape stacked and stored for next year. The 16mm are rolled up after the Micro sprinklers are taken off. Takes a lot of work but I reuse them and use them for several years. I am going to send Marshall a picture of the system working and get him to put it on the forum. My explanation may have made it worse but the picture will clear it up-----Your friend--Will
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