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Date: 4 Feb 2005 06:40:59 -0800
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Subject: Running water line.
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I am wanting to run water line about 250 feet to my garden. Thinking
about using a ditch witch. Are these hard to use?

Will there be very little pressure going that far? I plan on using
sprinklers to cover my 50 x 50 goot garden.

Also, the garden is not perfectly straight inline with the area of the
house the waterline would need to come out of. Is this a problem.

Also in between the two are my fiel lines? How do I get around that?

The ditch witch will do a good job if there are no significant rocks
but it takes a healthy fellow to operate it.

I ran a 1" line to my garden, total run about 300 feet and have plenty
of pressure to run several sprinklers at a time.

If you want a guarantee then you will have to get the specs on the
sprinkler heads and know how many you will be running at a time. That
will give the flow and pressure requirements at the sprinklers. Then
calculate the pressure drop on your line and deduct that from the head
pressure at the inlet.

If I did my system over I would install a couple of inline shutoffs
and drains for when I poke a hole in the line from time to time.

If you are in a frost area you will want to drain the system. I blow
mine out with the compressor.

John

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