Hi All

Have just installed our irrigation lines to our grove we have used the
olive sprinkler the problem i am have the hose the sprinklers are into
is expandinding and shrinking so much that it pull the sprinklers out
of the ground
just looking for ideas of how everyone has overcome this problem


Thanks Anthony

Hi Anthony,



Drive a star picket into the ground at the end of each row and secure the
irrigation line around it. Also put the picket in t an angle away from the
line so it won't slide up.



Regards

Paul

I have seen the problem in a few groves and the most effective fix
seems to be to anchor the ends of the lateral to minimise the movement
and have the small diameter hose that connects the sprinkler to the
lateral long enough to allow for the movement

Richard

Paul/Anthony,
If the sprinklers are being pulled out of the ground, I suspectthat the
feeder tube (6mm spaghetti, as I recall) is far too short! There should
be sufficient tube to allow the main line to move up to 200mm each
direction. We put in sprinklers with 600mm of feeder tube attached.
There has not been one, in the almost 10 years they've been in, that has
even moved a srinkler, let alone pull it from the ground! (And, being in
Tamworth NSW Au, we get some fairly warm days - yesterday was 37, and
today is tipped to be the same!)

Advice, get a roll of the feeder tube (we sourced ours from Water
Dynamics - used to be Southern Cross) and use a decent length of it to
feed the sprays.

Cheers
John Attwood
Tamworth NSW Au