Sumner GA, Located in southwest GA, | If you are serious in using travellers or hard hoses, DONT HODGEPODGE THE SYSTEM TOGETHER. You just doom yourself to failure. #1. You need to know your soil's waterholding capacity. #2. You need to know your soils percolation rate. #3. You need to plan it out, map it out, set up your capacities to be able to make it back to your start point at a reasonable rate. #4. Where are you getting the water. Water available makes a big difference in what to expect from your system. This isn't a case of just buying some portable pipe and a pump and a used traveller and being in business. Here, I want 550 GPM availible PER Traveller. 7 pulls is about the limit on a 3 day cycle, per traveller. Ideally, you always have one setup and running. Best larger systems I have seen have 2 travellers running at any one time and a third one set up ready to go when one goes out. It is going to take water, pressure, and horsepower. I am running 100 PSI at the gun on my last traveller pull, works well, but that takes alot of power and energy. Maintenance is king, maintain your equipment, your breakdowns become less frequent. This is just basics, lots of tools and experience to help you do it right.
PS: If a pivot will work and you are in it for the long term, it WILL be the best option. Travellers still have their place, but pivots sure are nice, also take alot less energy to do a good job. |
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