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1. Melvin Waldron

   

   43 posts
   
   3/8/2012 10:03 AM

   We have been correcting some severely sunken irrigation heads this past week, and one of the next things we plan to do is start edging heads for our spring play season, and while doing that, level any heads that need to be raised or lowered. The lowered ones should be easy, anything the fairway mower might damage, and since the guys that are doing the project mow fairways, and have to fix any heads they damage......but what is acceptable measurement for sunken heads, I will see one that might be a 1/2 to 1 maybe and say that would be ok...where do we decide to mess with one? I know part of the issue would be type of heads and how high the internals will raise, we have Rain Bird 51's mainly with just a few 900's. Just wanting to get an idea what you guys are doing.
   
   Thanks, Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
2. Ronald Conard

   

   4 posts
   
   3/8/2012 11:03 AM

   Mel,
   
   We have 51 drs and the only thing I don't like about them is the lack of a riser. So we start with our greens and make sure they are level and flush with the surface as any distribution problems are more amplified on greens. Then we work approaches, tees, fairways, then roughs. An inch or so is usually not a problem but if you have time its good to address them.
   
   I have some heads in the roughs that have settled a few inches and would like to get to them this year. However even so, no one has every complained about the occasional lack of distribution in the rough. In fact, I hardly even notice myself.