How To Maintain A Golf Course Irrigation System

السبت، 10 فبراير 2018

By Janet Wallace


Golf courses have to be watered regularly during the dry season, and this means that each management team has to check on its irrigation system before releasing water for the first time after the rains. Various problems in the system are bound to be discovered when the pumps are opened to start releasing water. To avoid such problems, you have to be armed with techniques and best practices that can keep your golf course irrigation system running smoothly in all seasons of the year.

All equipment found in the turf needs to be maintained in one way or another. Similar treatment should be employed on the irrigation system if you want to experience better services from them. Regular checkup and maintenance practices will cut down the costs realized through repairs and unnecessary repairs that are done by hired experts over things that could have been handled swiftly by a supervisor.

Start checking the apparent parts to see if they are the ones that are causing the problems. Check whether all the valves that supply water to the course are on if their isolation valves have a backflow, and whether controls for the flow are not turned on. Once you review all these details and nothing changes, then you can find a reliable expert to establish where the problem might be coming from.

Irrigation systems for golf courses are both manual and automatic. However, they function differently, and their problem can be identified separately. However, these methods may fail without giving any alarm, and if the concerned parties are not fast enough to find out where the problem is coming from, the repair might cost you handsomely. Go through the provided manual to get ideas on how you can reset it to a great state.

You can smoothly monitor how the pumps and other parts of the system from the controller. This is a part of the device that has been fitted with an LCD monitor where an attendant can watch all actions. However, electrical failure or blockage can cause them to stop functioning. To bring back the devices into working conditions, put them off for about fifteen minutes and switch them on again. They shall automatically start functioning.

Another factor that contributes to system failure is blown fuses that fail to complete the electric circuit. This happens due to overloading and installation of a circuit breaker can help minimize such situations. A replacement of the fuse can help solve the problem, and if nothing changes, then you can call an electrician to come in and check whether the challenge is experienced due to wiring issues.

It is imperative that firms which depend on specific machines for their production to keep as many spare parts as possible. However, the correct size and shape of the spares should be looked for because anything short of that will be rendered useless. Moreover, stored spares save both the expert and the course management time and money that are spent when moving around the city looking for a spare part.

You do not have to wait until your system breaks down to start inspecting it. Make it your duty to conduct such checks once or twice a month. As such, you will notice possible damages or replacements that will be required before they blow up.




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