Various Irrigation Techniques

[Worth1]

Some time ago I tarted a thread and all of the pictures came up missing.
So I am starting it here again hopefully with the same pictures and and some new ones.
The first one here is a homemade water hammer arrester.
Water Hammer 2.jpg

If you have a lot of flow and pressure going to you garden the simple use of pipe and fittings will stop the hammer.
This hammer effect can cause problems such as fittings coming apart.
Since air compresses the pressure is absorbed by the air pocket in the chamber.



Worth

[Worth1]

I was going to start putting up drawings and such here but couldn't find the stuff on the computer.
So please stand by while I look for some again.

Here is a balanced soaker hose design it should be self explanatory.
This way you get the same pressure on long runs of soaker hose instead of it dropping out at the end.
Soaker hose loop.jpg

[Worth1]

More stuff.
Balanced drip Line.jpg

Flower pot set up.jpg

line through bottom of pot.jpg

[Worth1]

This is a test and only a test.
Something is whacked out with my paint program.


Drip set up2.jpg

[Worth1]

Drip line set up for garden.

Drip Line for garden 2.jpg

[zeuspaul]

Worth1, why the valve at the end of the drip line run? Looks like a ball valve? Is it to flush the line? Do you use auto flush end caps?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by zeuspaul

Worth1, why the valve at the end of the drip line run? Looks like a ball valve? Is it to flush the line? Do you use auto flush end caps?

It is a flush valve and for a few other things like maybe something growing on a fence.
It gives you a little more flexibility.
The particular place this is at puts out only 6 gallons a minute and the combined system uses 3.6 gallons a minute total.
So I figured why not the valves instead of a plug cap or so forth.
This way a person can run a line to a fence and water that while they cut off one of the other lines.
This 1/2 barb valves are pretty cheap and they work good.

Besides I dont like the cheap #%$& things they sell where you bend the line back into its self.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

I like the idea of a valve at the end. Besides a way to flush the line, it would also promote expansion if needed. = valve for future. Things change in a garden.

[peppero]

Thanks for the post Worth; this will save some time for a lot of us.

jon

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by peppero

Thanks for the post Worth; this will save some time for a lot of us.

jon

Some of this stuff will make you pull your hair out.
They make two different barb valves one is for 16MM and the other is for 17MM.
I had to go to the manufacturers web site to find out which one to use.

I think that is why the drip kits are so popular, people dont have to go through all of the research.
The tees are the universal tees that will fit both the drip line and drip tubing.
Drip tubing has no holes and drip line does.

Here is the 200 mesh drip filter with flush valve.
You can hook a hose up to the end of the valve so you dont flood the area if you dont want to.
I highly recommend using the 200 mesh filter in any type of irrigation system.


These are the barbed valves.

This is the adjustable regulator.

Faucet vacuum breaker to prevent contaminating the water supply.

Needs to be at least around 16 inches above the highest drip point.
A water hose can go from here to the hose adapter so the filter regulator assembly could be mounted on a post or fence.
It all doesn't have to hang off of the faucet.


Pipe to hose adapter.

Pipe coupling to go from male hose adapter to filter.

Adapter to go from regulator to drip tubing.
The tubing fits inside the adapter.



Yes I know there are a thousand ways to do this.
But lets say a person wanted to make up a kit to sell and the buyer didn't want to have to go out and buy a hose clamp or rig it in some other way this would be a way to do it.

Jon your welcome.

Worth

[HCWithAltitude]

Great info, Worth.

Hmmm...maybe I should have posted my inquiry here?

HWA

[Stvrob]

Great stuff Worth. Drip irrigation is kinda fun.

Also I might add, if you have a heat gun, you can get poly to do just about anything you want. Wrong barb size? No problem. no termination plug handy, just heat it up, fold it over, and mash it with pliers. You can make custom little bends, remove the springyness or twistyness easy.
They are good to have around the house for lots of things. Dont want to risk flipping and breaking that beautiful zuccini omlet when you have guests? Break out the heat gun and toast the top while the bottom is cooking. My heat gun is one of the most useful tools I have.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Stvrob

Great stuff Worth. Drip irrigation is kinda fun.

Also I might add, if you have a heat gun, you can get poly to do just about anything you want. Wrong barb size? No problem. no termination plug handy, just heat it up, fold it over, and mash it with pliers. You can make custom little bends, remove the springyness or twistyness easy.
They are good to have around the house for lots of things. Dont want to risk flipping and breaking that beautiful zuccini omlet when you have guests? Break out the heat gun and toast the top while the bottom is cooking. My heat gun is one of the most useful tools I have.

Thanks

I have had one for years I use it for everything.

Including heating those pesky fittings
I have even used one at work to make toast.

Also used a propane torch to cook a steak a few times.

Worth

[ScottinAtlanta]

Worth, I am planning to put a series of containers in a row and run a plastic pipe over the top of them, with a nozzle for every container. A timer will open and shut the valve to give them an hour of drip a day. How would that work?

[Worth1]

It will work.
You should use adjustable drippers to adjust the amount of water to each container.

You could use these running from a main 1/2 line and branch off with 1/4 line to each container.

If you just put the emitters on the pipe many times the water will just run down the pipe and not into the container.

http://www.sprinklerwarehouse.com/An...s-p/a30995.htm


They work pretty good and I think you can still get them at HD and maybe Lowes.

No I dont have stock in this stuff it is just that when you google images this is what comes up.
If you will notice the barb on the left of the spike is the one you snap off and stick in the 1/2 drip tubing.


They sell little tools to make the hole in the tubing.

http://www.sprinklerwarehouse.com/Dr...hes-s/9771.htm

The cost of this stuff is negligible compared to the headaches of trying to rig things sometimes.

I will say some time ago someone here said this stuff was junk.

It isn't junk I use these emitters on some trees in the back and they have been in use for 7 years.
This stuff has saved everything I planted while I was gone.

Worth