Movable irrigation systems

Claim 1

A MOUNTING AND HAULAGE DEVICE FOR A MOVABL IRRIGATION PIPE-LINE OF THE KIND CONSISTING OF A TRAIN OF PIPE LENGTHS LOOSELY BUT LIQUID-TIGHTLY COUPLED TOGETHER IN ENDTO-END AXIAL ALIGNMENT, COMPRISING; (A) FOR EACH OF SAID PIPE LENGTHS, A SKID RUNNER OF INVERTED CHANNEL CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE AND CONSISTING OF AN EARTH-TROWELING AND TRACK-RIDING ROOF-PLATE HAVING EACH OF ITS END PORTIONS UPTILTED, AND A PAIR OF SPACED-APART GENERALLY PARALLEL TRACK-CUTTING PLATES WHICH EXTEND GENERALLY VERTICALLY DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID ROOF-PLATE ON EITHER SIDE THEREOF, (B) PEDESTALS MOUNTED ON EACH OF SAID SKID, RUNNERS AS SOLE SUPPORTS FOR SAID TRAIN OF PIPE LENGTHS, WHICH INCLUDE CLAMPS ADAPTED TO HOLD A PIPE LENGTH ELEVATED CLEAR OF AND ABOVE THE RELATED SKID RUNNER WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID PIPE LENGTH PARALLEL TO THAT OF THE RELATED SKID RUNNER, (C) A TENSION TIE-ROD WHICH EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY SAID TRAIN (OF PIPE LENGTHS), AND (D) MEANS FOR ATTACHING SAID TENSION TIE-ROD TO EACH OF THE SKID RUNNERS IN SAID TRAIN OF PIPE LENGTHS.