Pacific service magazine . m^m Electrically-driven centrifugal pumps are often used to create pressure tor the operation ot overhead sprinklers. Pacific Service Magazine 195 accept such a charge. Semi-portable instal-lations reduce this high first cost; but thelabor involved in the actual application ofwater is increased. With the semi-portable installationunderground lines are laid through the areato be served at intervals of about one hun-dred feet. These lines are equipped withordinary garden faucets at intervals ofabout eight}- feet. Portable sprinklers,somewhat similar to that shown by th
Pacific service magazine . m^m Electrically-driven centrifugal pumps are often used to create pressure tor the operation ot overhead sprinklers. Pacific Service Magazine 195 accept such a charge. Semi-portable instal-lations reduce this high first cost; but thelabor involved in the actual application ofwater is increased. With the semi-portable installationunderground lines are laid through the areato be served at intervals of about one hun-dred feet. These lines are equipped withordinary garden faucets at intervals ofabout eight}- feet. Portable sprinklers,somewhat similar to that shown by the ac-companying illustration are used to distri-bute the water. These heads are connectedto the garden faucets by not more thanfifty feet of garden hose. When the areaavailable from a single setting is sufficientlyirrigated the portable sprinklers can bereadily moved to another location. Thenecessary underground piping can begreatly reduced if the irrigator is willingto undertake the labor of moving the port-able sprinkler
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