Side-roll wheel
Description
Side-roll wheel-move systems have large-diameter wheels mounted on a pipeline, enabling the line to be rolled as a unit to successive positions across the field. Crop type is an important consideration for this system since the pipeline is roughly 1 metre above the ground.
Advantage and limitations
- Adaptable to irrigating potatoes, vegetables, field crops, and alfalfa hay.
- Low labour requirement.
- Higher initial costs and maintenance costs then hand move laterals.
- The field must be rectangular.
- Not adapted to tall crops.
- Topography must be flat or gently rolling.