irrigation storage?

[anojones]

I'm looking for ideas to store our 4" irrigation handline- 20 foot lengths. Currently we are without a barn and won't have one for a couple of years as we work on other projects. The line is currently piled in the pasture and becomes overgrown with weeds and home to various critters. In the summer the critters end up going on "mr toads wild ride" into the sprinkler heads which is a mess to clean up. I'd like to get it off the ground and was planning on putting in a couple (or three) fence posts and making a "shelf" to keep them out of the dirt but am wondering what others do. We don't use that much so don't really need a trailer. Maybe it's not worth the effort and I should just leave them along the fence line on the ground. Thanks.

 

[texastomtom]

The ground may still be the best place.

I do not know where you live but in my part of the world if you put aluminum pipe on racks it is just begging for high winds to scatter and bend it around.

We had far too much pipe to ever think about putting it in barns.

We did put it on trailers sometimes and parked those trailers stratigically to keep winds off as best we could.

Keeping the critters and dirt out is a problem,, with the amount of pipe we had we just had to live with it though.

When you are about to put the pipe back to use just be sure to leave the pipe plug out and let it flow water through the pipe and out the far end to wash things out.. You will still get some debris up into the sprinkers at times but I guess that is just life... Unless of course you want to put some type of covers over both ends of the pipes.


If you are only talking about a few dozen joints of pipe that might be reasonable.

You could also move the entire length next to the fence, put it back together and then you would only have 2 end to plug,,, if you need a break for the road etc you would have no more then 4 ends to plug. Keeping it all tied together would help hold it down in the winds / tornado's etc....

Good luck !

tom

 

[anojones]

Thanks- actually we do get a lot of wind where we are- I didn't even think of that. We'll just keep it on the ground and build a rack for it in the barn- when we get it built.

A Jones

 

[fractal]

Not sure if this will work for you but..

I stack my firewood on pallets. I can get the scrap, no-deposit pallets from the local building supply. I lay four of them down next to the back chainlink fence when I get a cord of wood. Keeps the firewood off the dirt. Pallets last 2-3 years before they rot through.

Maybe lay a half dozen or dozen pallets down and lay the pipe on them? Would keep the pipe up off the ground a little, but not much. And the price is right.