TRAVELING SPRINKLER- WATER REEL

beanman · Jan 13, 2012

has anyone had any experience using a small water reel. like a kifco b110 or rapid rain 860? tanks for any input.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 13, 2012

I don't know about these units but years ago I watered my large lawn with a very similar unit called a "rain train". Same principle, it followed the hose that you had layed out, except it drug the hose rather than putting it on a reel.
Worked for years, problem free. Not sure what ever happened to it, or if they still make them.
I think sprinkler systems for lawns hurt their sales.

beanman · Jan 13, 2012

the ones I mentioned are water driven. they have 200 ft. of hose on a cart. I need one to water 3 acres of sweet corn.

GordoSD · Jan 13, 2012

Have a talk with the greenskeeper at the local golf course. The average par 5 is a little over 3 acres. See what hwe would do. You'll just have to use some 5 foot risers on the sprinklers.
I run four sprinklers, two at a time on 8 foot steel fence posts. Above ground vinyl irrigation hose. It all gets put in after the corn is planted, out after harvest.

beanman · Jan 13, 2012

Right now I use a tripod sprinkler, but I have to move it every 2 hours or so. would be nice to have one that would run for 8-10 hours and shut off at the end.

gitrib · Jan 13, 2012

We have used a Bauer Rainboy reel pull for 20 years on 20 acres. 2.5 hard hose sprinkler is a Nelson 100 Big Gun covers 150 ft wide. In hot dry condition. run 24-7 run unattended except for reseting. Going to change to a Boom for it. More efficent. Excelent for odd shaped field. Wind ruins watering pattern.

gitrib · Jan 13, 2012

Ou Rainboy has 600 ft of hose cover 1.5 acres per pull. get three pulls per 24 hr. applying 2 inch of water.. All depends on your water supply, pump. It needs to be engineered not just thrown together. We drilled a irrigation type well twenty inch bore eight inch casing, gravel packed, Stainless steel submersable pump.
raise ten ton per acre of Alfalfa per acre.

GordoSD · Jan 13, 2012

Hear ya. I have to go out and open/close valves on the 4 post maounted rainbirds.

beanman · Jan 13, 2012

I can't go bigger than 3/4 -1 inch line.I have a 3/4 hp main pump with 55# pressure. I have a booster pump to up the pressure to 80 psi. only have about 10 gpm. the field is 450 ft. to the other end, so I probably loose some pressure, that' why I need a smaller water reel.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jan 13, 2012

(quoted from post at 16:43:21 01/13/12) the ones I mentioned are water driven. they have 200 ft. of hose on a cart. I need one to water 3 acres of sweet corn.

ever used one like you are asking about, but I do have the rain train mentioned above, and they are great on grass, but in tilled ground such as a garden they just bury themselves in the mud.

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