Irrigation
Prospex provides circular or linear Pivot according to your land and crop requirement. They can move in either direction and will often operate any time.
These highly automated machines will give you precise control over the application amount – optimizing water use and efficient uptake to achieve ideal pasture or crop growth.
Pivots are suitable for irrigating tall crops and can also straddle shelter belts, small buildings and sheds where necessary. Variable Irrigation rate by controlling speed of pivot and out let flow from irrigation nozzle (VRI) technology can be used to change the application to suit the season, individual soil or crop requirements. Pivots can handle undulating ground and gentle slopes, and precision corner arms can be added to ensure the corners of your fields are irrigated also.
Pivots consist of steel supporting structures and large spans of water pipes. Each span is mounted on a drive tower and base beam incorporating an electric gear motor which drives a set of gearboxes and tractor wheels.
Key Feature
- Virtually no labor is required so pivots can operate 24/7.
- They deliver very high uniformity to optimize water use and achieve even crop growth.
- Pivots operate on low pressure which helps minimize running costs.
- Can offer short rotation times, applying a lower application rate, to minimize water losses and result in optimum crop growth.
- Gives precise control over application amount to optimize water use. You can also apply light amounts to sensitive crops.
- The automated system can be controlled remotely and will enable telemetry for data collection and/or fault reporting, to help meet compliance requirements and minimize downtime.
- Can irrigate tall crops such as maize or straddle shelter belts, buildings, dairy sheds and small homes so you can optimize the areas irrigated.
- Individual sprinklers or banks of sprinklers can be turned on/off so stockyards, buildings, tracks, waterways and silage can be kept dry.
- Low maintenance and low annual servicing costs which help save you money.
- Low application rates on suitably-sized machines allows efficient water uptake by the soil without run off – optimizing your water use.
- Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) technology can be incorporated to reduce or increase the application depending on soil or crop requirements.
- Nozzles can easily be removed for checking and unblocking when necessary.
- Can handle undulating ground and gentle slopes to suit variable terrain.
- Can add a “precision corner arm” to capture a larger amount of missed corners
- Siemens PLC control Remote monitoring system available for easy control