How To Maintain A Golf Course Irrigation System

By Janet Wallace


Golf courses are required to maintain their green texture throughout the season, and once the rainy season is over, the supervisors and managers have to start their irrigation system. However, these systems develop complication after a long wait for the rains to be over and a few checks should enable you to solve the problem. Complicated issues are the only ones that should attract the attention of qualified repaired experts. In this abstract, several maintenance practices for golf course irrigation system have been highlighted.

Just like other equipment found on the turf the irrigation systems must be maintained now and then. The same maintenance done to sprayers and mowing devices should be administered to the system. As such, you will save costs that arise when experts are brought to repair simple things that could have been done by anyone who came to the problematic point.

Before a thorough diagnosis of the system is launched, you have to check the obvious parts. Find out whether the water supply is on, whether there is backflow from the isolation valves that can prevent water from flowing, and whether the flow control has been turned off among other practices. By reviewing such factors before calling in a repair expert, you will have saved substantial time and efforts.

Golf courses are fitted with either automatic or manual systems. The devices are controlled differently and each attendant should be conversant with the controls. Something could happen when they are dormant, and a restart should be done before an expert is brought in. Read and understand the operation manual before you start punching any button on the interface.

Irrigation systems that run across the course are controlled from one point where an LCD monitor is kept. From this monitor, you learn how the machines are operating, and you can conduct any change in the amount of water released using them. However, after some time they get stalled, and you can reinstate them by putting off for about ten minutes where after they go back to their normal working condition.

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.

Waiting until something happens to the system for you to inspect it is a big mess. These systems have to remain in constant checks where any developing problem can be noticeable. As such, you will prevent further damage that could occur if the problem was left unattended for long.




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