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IRRIGATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION

Right from our humble beginnings, The Water Shed has always offered a professional irrigation installation service.

Whether it's a domestic sprinkler system, a landscape irrigation system, bowling green, golf course, or a complete farm irrigation project, The Water Shed has the expertise and the staff to complete the job.

With two trench diggers, support vehicles, specialised equipment and experienced staff we can supply a complete installation service or a partial installation to suit customer requirements.

PUMP AND IRRIGATION FIELD SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE

Pump repairs and irrigation system repairs are just another of the services offered by The Water Shed.

Our experienced staff are equipped with four wheel drive vehicles and can service on site or bring problem equipment back to our workshop for repair. As agents for all major pump and irrigation suppliers and as a member of IWG we have access to spare parts for almost any pump or irrigation system.

WORKSHOP FACILITIES AND SERVICE

As part of The Water Shed commitment to customer satisfaction the operation of a well equipped workshop is essential.

Located on site at the rear of our showroom, with over 100m2 of floor space and 20m2 of workshop office space, telephone extension and independent fax line we take after sales service very seriously. Our fully qualified small engine mechanic with over 25 years experience is available to work on any type of power equipment.

Pump repairs to all types and brands, large and small, are carried out by our pump repair technician. Warranty and service work on - Briggs & Stratton, Tecumseh, Kohler, Honda and Husqvarna engines can be provided regardless of whether the unit was purchased from The Water Shed. Grundfos, Davey and Southern Cross pumps receive the same attention.

GPS IRRIGATION SURVEY

In January 1998 the managing director of The Water Shed, Mr Rob Webber, decided to upgrade the procedure for preparing irrigation designs.

With the technology available the GPS or Global Positioning System seemed the ideal way to upgrade. While the established procedure of measuring irrigation blocks by hand with a land wheel, sight compass and inclinometer was adequate for smaller jobs it was too time consuming for the larger areas being surveyed.

The use of a GPS survey system would speed up the gathering of data, could be used in less than favorable weather conditions and would eliminate the risk of human error. Until this point in time costs of units to give the necessary degree of accuracy were prohibitive. However, new developments in differential survey systems brought prices to a justifiable level.

Using the differential GPS is simply a matter of setting a reference base station unit on a tripod at a point adjacent to the area to be surveyed. This unit is then activated and logs on to available satellites. The mobile unit can then be set up in a vehicle , or carried on foot. This unit is also activated and begins logging data. Accuracy depends on the type of survey taken, in most cases a mobile survey is acceptable. A static survey will give centimeter accuracy.

Once the survey has been completed both units are down loaded onto a computer for processing. When processing is complete a plot of the survey is available. Completed survey files can be converted to a DXF file and transferred to a computer aided design program to prepare the irrigation system design.

COMPUTER AIDED IRRIGATION DESIGN

The design of an irrigation system can be quite complex, with many factors such as, available water, size of area to be irrigated, topography of the land to be irrigated, future system expansion and budget constraints all influencing the final design of an irrigation system. With the advent of computer aided design programs or CAD programs modern irrigation designers can draw different options for system design electronically, evaluate them, and then choose the appropriate design without ever drawing a line on paper.

Longhand or drawing board design of irrigation systems meant many hours of drawing plans that could be rejected, or if accepted copied by hand to retain a permanent record, or worse never copied with no permanent record.

CAD irrigation plans on the other hand give the designer scope to retain all calculations necessary to design a system and then produce a customer plan without showing unnecessary design information. In the case of The Water Shed our design information is stored on CD, we can even supply a customer their design on CD if required. This also means replacement plans can be provided at short notice, or information retrieved for future design extensions.

FABRICATED POLYETHYLENE

Polyethylene is a material that has been around for a long while and is well known commonly as POLY pipe.

Due to it's unique properties poly has become popular as a highly servicable material for use in aggressive situations,or applications where some degree of flexibility is desirable. It's relative cost effectiveness means it can be manufactured in large diameters where other materials can't.

The one problem with poly is the joining of components to complete a desired job. While the process of butt welding poly components is not a costly one, the equipment required to complete the process is. For that reason not many poly butt welders are in the hands of local irrigation shops.

The Water Shed specialise in the fabrication of custom poly components and poly butt welding. Our Fusionmaster model HF 225 is capable of poly joints from 63mm od to 225mm od. This unit has been built into it's own pallet size steel box complete with it's own 5.5 kva generator and lifting jib making the whole unit self contained and portable for use on site in the field .

Fabricated poly is ideal for ;

• Pump suction lines & discharge lines
• Filter manifolds
• In field valve risers
• Creek or swamp crossings
• Difficult traverses where PVC pipe canít be buried

We can also repair, lengthen or shorten Polyreel hard hose irrigator pipes.

Call us for a quote on that special job or repair !