Preferred Irrigation Supplier?

It's too dark to take pic's now. don't let me forget to show you how I place the emitters in the mainline vs the 1/4 tubing for cleaner looking distribution.
 
TorontoJoe said:
@snarfing

In my case it was Irrigation Direct. Drip Depot and I assume Dripworks do the same thing.

You send a hand drawn sketch of your property with approximate number of plants and their location and relevant dimensions. They send you back something like this

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Along with a parts list sort of like this.

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This list and diagram don't match but you get the idea. They will include all the valves, timer, tubing, bublers, sprayers, emitters, barb fittings (elbows, t's, straight couple), mainline fittings, tools, pressure reducers, filters... etc, etc. And they don't charge for doing it. At least I think they still don't they didn't for me when I originally set up mine
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FOR FREE ? hell yeah. ok... i need to find a u.s. company that does this... also draw this...
 
snarfing said:
FOR FREE ? hell yeah. ok... i need to find a u.s. company that does this
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Yep! Free!

I learned about it way back, years ago when people on Figs4Fun mentioned Drip Depot in the US does it. That's when I reached out to Irrigation Direct up here and they said that they do it as well. These places tend to have excellent customer service.
 
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I use my local Greenhouse supply, Nolt's Greenhouse Supply
They supply industry standard parts for greenhouse operations from small to huge. They have a pdf download available of their catalog and will ship just about anything but fertilizer.
It really doesn't need to be a fancy system with complicated parts, you are just getting water from point A to point Bs .
I made the attached video to share with a friend the spray stacks I utilize and how I'm adding pressure equalizing circuits. The pressure equalizing allows me to completely eliminate all pressure compensating type emitters .

 
DCallahan said:
I use my local Greenhouse supply, Nolt's Greenhouse Supply
They supply industry standard parts for greenhouse operations from small to huge. They have a pdf download available of their catalog and will ship just about anything but fertilizer.
It really doesn't need to be a fancy system with complicated parts, you are just getting water from point A to point Bs .
I made the attached video to share with a friend the spray stacks I utilize and how I'm adding pressure equalizing circuits. The pressure equalizing allows me to completely eliminate all pressure compensating type emitters .

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Wondering why you don't care for pressure compensating emitters?
 
TorontoJoe said:
Wondering why you don't care for pressure compensating emitters?
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Reliability, cost and water cycle time
I can also clearly see the spraying volume and coverage
Those little pressure compensating emitters jam up all the time, and I'd have to have 3 or 4 to get the coverage I get with one spray stake that very seldom if ever stops up.
I use one barb to barb fitting 8 cents, 36" of spaghetti tube 4 cents, and a .20 cent spray stake per pot. $9 for the loop of orchard tubing.
How much would it cost to have a trio of PC emitters installed on each pot?
Also I would have to ask what problem would Pressure compensating emitters solve for me?
As I mentioned in the video I have a water volume supply issue. The well pump is small low Horsepower. With the current household supply the volume is not enough to support multiple zones running at once. I can water each zone much quicker and get to the next zone in the rotation. Getting all the zones satisfied in 30-45 minutes depending on the demands of the season.
 
DCallahan said:
Reliability, cost and water cycle time
I can also clearly see the spraying volume and coverage
Those little pressure compensating emitters jam up all the time, and I'd have to have 3 or 4 to get the coverage I get with one spray stake that very seldom if ever stops up.
I use one barb to barb fitting 8 cents, 36" of spaghetti tube 4 cents, and a .20 cent spray stake per pot. $9 for the loop of orchard tubing.
How much would it cost to have a trio of PC emitters installed on each pot?
Also I would have to ask what problem would Pressure compensating emitters solve for me?
As I mentioned in the video I have a water volume supply issue. The well pump is small low Horsepower. With the current household supply the volume is not enough to support multiple zones running at once. I can water each zone much quicker and get to the next zone in the rotation. Getting all the zones satisfied in 30-45 minutes depending on the demands of the season.
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That makes sense.

Personally, I've found the pressure compensating emitters I have pretty good. I have maybe 300 of them on the system now and I had to replace maybe 5 or 6 this spring. That said I have high, municipal pressure that I need to bring way down or it'll explode my system. I just had to replace my pressure reducer because I found the fixed 20psi reducer unit was delivering 40psi. That's what popped off the 5-6 emitters. I just got a new, brass unit that seems to be very accurate. I can keep everything at about 35psi
 
TorontoJoe said:
That makes sense.

Personally, I've found the pressure compensating emitters I have pretty good. I have maybe 300 of them on the system now and I had to replace maybe 5 or 6 this spring. That said I have high, municipal pressure that I need to bring way down or it'll explode my system. I just had to replace my pressure reducer because I found the fixed 20psi reducer unit was delivering 40psi. That's what popped off the 5-6 emitters. I just got a new, brass unit that seems to be very accurate. I can keep everything at about 35psi
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I have the pressure in my system/supply I just don't have any meaningful recovery of volume while the system is open. I think our well pump is 1/2 hp.
Currently in the process of building a standalone irrigation water supply system. I should be able to run at least 3 if not 4 zones at the same time and not experience any interuptution with the household operation.
If you run into anymore trouble with your pressure regulator, look into a duel pressure regulator. And maybe you have a main regulator coming into your house that has failed open.
 
TorontoJoe said:
@snarfing

In my case it was Irrigation Direct. Drip Depot and I assume Dripworks do the same thing.

You send a hand drawn sketch of your property with approximate number of plants and their location and relevant dimensions. They send you back something like this

View attachment 23784

Along with a parts list sort of like this.

View attachment 23783

This list and diagram don't match but you get the idea. They will include all the valves, timer, tubing, bublers, sprayers, emitters, barb fittings (elbows, t's, straight couple), mainline fittings, landscape staples,tools, pressure reducers, filters... etc, etc. And they don't charge for doing it. At least I think they still don't they didn't for me when I originally set up mine
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50 tomato plants?? What are you making spaghetti for the whole town?
 
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