Irrigation equipment for tractor

Abstract

Abstract A method of irrigating a large tract of farm land without the use of permanent irrigation sprinkler systems, ditches, pipes and the like. Defining the tract in a general rectangular or square shape, sections of conventional aluminum or other irrigation pipe which may be rigid are detachably coupled together and led to the source of water usually a farm pond or lake and suitable pumping equipment is used with gasoline or diesel engines to suck the water from the pond or lake and deliver it at proper pressure through the base piping which is sort of in the middle of the tract. Flexible irrigation hose coiled on a large reel has one end detachably attached to the outlet end of the base pipe system and is supported on a three-point tractor hitch from which there is a power take-off means selectively to drive the hose reel to wind or unwind. A large, conventional farm-type irrigation sprinkler head is mounted on the frame with the reel and is driven by the water pressure from the flexible hose. The tractor unwinds the reel to the far end of the tract from the sort of central base piping system and then takes stationary position with the sprinkler operating or travels slowly substantially in a straight line from one side of the tract to the other, turning towards the unwatered tract after reaching the far side, detaching whatever base piping is necessary, adjusting the flexible hose to reel or unreel as required and proceeding to water the remainder of the tract in this fashion. The frame supporting the reel on the three-point hitch of the tractor includes suitable roller guide means and may be adjusted from the tractor by the three-point hitch.

Inventors

• 👤 R Odom
• 👤 C Fowler

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