Farming Video | Chad Henderson’s Trick for a DIY Pivot Stop That Saves Time in the Field

26 Nov 251m 21s

Chad Henderson from XtremeAg is back with a smart little hack for anyone running irrigation pivots with limited water. He’s working a 230–240 acre pivot, but when the water supply didn’t hold up like he hoped, he split it—half corn, half double crop—and needed a movable stop to manage watering times.

00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag and we're going to give y'all a, just a little tip here. So we have irrigation system here that's in the middle 00:00:07 of this field, and it's about 240 acres under the whole pivot. 2 30, 2 40. 00:00:13 Well, we had a good water supply, but the water supply wouldn't quite what we didn't turn out to be, what it, what we thought it was. 00:00:19 So we cut this pivot in half, is what we've done, and half of it is in corn, and then half of it is in some sort of double crop, 00:00:26 you know, where we can water two different times or water all season. So with that being said, 00:00:31 I didn't need a permanent stop here, you know, in the middle of this pivot. I didn't need a permanent stop at the end of it 00:00:36 to separate these farms. So I decided to build me a movable stop. So this is A PVC stop. You see how light it is? 00:00:44 I just turned it right over and the tires walk up on it on this end, and then it touches the bar right there, 00:00:50 you know, and stops the pivot. Or reverses the pivot, whichever one you wanna do. And in that case, all we've done was put some 40 fives on it 00:00:58 where it supports it on the backside, and then you just turn it around. You pick up, walk around, 00:01:03 move the pivot, set the pivot down. There you go. So if y'all need a portable stop idea, two inch PVC, little bit of time, maybe it'd help y'all out. 33 00:01:15.245 --> 00:01:16.695