The winter of 2015 never seemed to end. As I write this I'm still getting reports of courses around the area that received significant winter damage. Many suffered from Winter kill that left huge swaths of dead grass and numerous irrigation issues. One such story was a local course that sustained damage to over 90 irrigation heads. The issue was that when the ground heaved from the deep freeze/thaw, it would put tremendous pressure on the swing joints below. A swing joint is a product that has movable gasketed elbows which allows the technician to raise or lower heads to the proper height. As the ground lifted the head, the swing joint, which is attached to pipe 2 feet underground wasn't budging and the elbow/ threads would snap off. At this point we have repaired 8 heads with more to go. Compared to 90 we got off lucky!
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