Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | How do you move it?
The last standing Valley waterdrive around here was scrapped in the last year, but it had not run in some time. There are a couple of other small waterdrives, but I don't know what brand. They look like a Walking 40, but I don't know if they did waterdrives. I know where there is an Olson machine, but it's been converted to electric.
We have some surviving Zimmatic spans that are supposed to be from 1967, and a small Pierce machine that is probably nearly that old. We had a lot of painted pipe Gifford-Hills running until 2006. There got to be a lot of holes in those pipes, but the G-H spans were still very solid and they had the clearance to run in tall corn.
A lot of the brands from the 70's are disappearing fast. Along with G-H, there aren't many Hygromatic, Sargent, Pringle, Sparkle, Rain-Cat, or even Pierce or Tumac machines left.
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vintage center pivot irrigation
