Reach every corner of the farm with the Reinke Mini centre pivot
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ew scenes are as pleasing to the eye as a centre pivot irrigator doing what it is supposed to do: Following the contours on a field of ripening wheat. However, this was not always a scene possible for farmers on smaller farms, smallholdings, or for emerging farmers. Reinke has now developed a mini centre pivot irrigator that can make all the difference for the smaller farmer between merely recovering his input costs and making a handy profit. The solution is a practical one and does not require breaking the bank! Two problems causing the smaller farmer many headaches, are inadequate access to a dependable electricity supply (or expensive power) and low water pressure. Reinke’s solution for the smaller farmer is a small self-propelled irrigator – the EDMP (Engine Driven Mini Pivot), making it possible for the smallscale farmer to irrigate fodder for his livestock, or to irrigate a patch of maize behind the house. All he needs is a can of petrol to start the engine, and then he can stand back and see how his three hectares yield the same harvest as his commercial neighbour’s large fields. He also has the option of investing in a towable centre pivot, making it pos12
sible to irrigate more than one smaller field with the same machine, or to move the machine around depending on seasonal requirements. The main advantage of the petroldriven centre pivot over the water-driven model is that water pressure need not be all that high. The Mini Centre Pivot has no control
panel, but it comes with a choice of gearboxes which determine the speed and thus the application rate of the water. The gearboxes come in low speed, standard speed, or high speed. Depending on the gearbox ratio, the pivot will move faster or slower at the same engine revolutions per minute. The power driving the EDMP is a
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