Monday 11 July 2016

Little Known About Drip Irrigation Repair

By Karen Carter


Water is a life so goes the adage and so true this is. Plants do require water and that is why it is vital to irrigate them. As the level of technology grows every day we find that new methods of giving water to plants are invented but the one that we will look at a greater depth at is the one that uses channeled water in hose pipes which have holes, these holes helps in dispersing of water to the crop roots though it has several demerits which then calls for drip irrigation repair.

Hose pipes that take water to root bases have leakage which is a disadvantage to required plants. The water does make other weeds grow since it gushes out in places that have no crops hence making them compete with other crops to get nutrients and water. There is need to fix the leakage in order to make the plants have less weeds that do grow around the leaking area.

In order to have smooth irrigation we have gadgets that are used during the mending of wrecked areas. Making of holes, repairing plugs that are not in good conditions and eradicating holes we require a gadget that is known as drip irrigation tool. Fingers do ache when one tries to fix the gadgets without the use of required tools and to save one from the pain it vital when they are used.

Plugs are also vital when it comes to fixing the system. Holes do not go according to the way the plants do grow hence there is need to put them in the way that plants grow in order to make water get absorbed to these plants thoroughly. Plugs are therefore inserted using hands to stop the water from gushing out.

The list of the tools is lengthy but mentioning the above will give one what is required when going to fix the leaking hoses. The process of repair goes in steps whereby the first step is drilling a small opening to and attaching the plug to the opening. One should make an effort of having seals secure and tight.

Human is prone to error hence at times the required opening becomes big and there is need to rectify this. The hole should be gotten out of the tubing by joining together two hose pipes using straight coupler. Each side of the hole should be cut that the section should be removed completely.

The drip is connected on the main tubing which feeds water to it and later the drip distributes water to the roots. A small coupler which is bubbled is drilled to the main tubing using a drip tool. A quarter of the tubing is on one end of the bulb when connection is done, and a micro-sprinkler is on the other.

Fixing the system does come with advantages in plenty one of them being saving money that could be used to repair by an expert. The last process is the one that one should be keen on since it is somehow tasking. If you put it on your finger-tips all the problems of fixing will be long gone.




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