Farming Video | Kelly Garrett Swaps Out Old Sand in NutriDrip Trailer Prep
31 May 251m 32s

Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg walks us through some shop talk as he and his team prep their NutraDrip trailer for the upcoming irrigation season. The main task today? Swapping out old, smelly sand that’s been filtering water for years—tough work, but essential for keeping the fertigation system running smoothly. Kelly explains their basic maintenance routine: changing oil, checking pumps, servicing knuckles, and making sure the trailer’s mechanical system is good to go. With irrigation just weeks away, the crew’s making sure their 120-acre system is dialed in and ready.

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00:00:00 Hi, this Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. We're here in the shop today. We're getting the Nutri drip trailer for our net 00:00:06 of irrigation system ready to go. The sand was getting old, had been in there for a few years. Some of it had washed out. 00:00:13 Rice is, uh, replacing the sand, which isn't the greatest job. No, The old sand is very, very smelly. 00:00:20 Uh, but we got that taken care of. Turns out you can't pinch off a ag bag. You got a lot of sand here on the ground. 00:00:26 We're scooping up. We Had a little ten four hundred, but we are getting it scooped up. Put in here today. Fresh sand 00:00:32 'cause it'll filter the water back. Uh, what are the other things that we need to do when we start this up? 00:00:38 You change the oil in the motor. What, what else do you look at? Basic preventative maintenance. We start with the motor. 00:00:43 We, uh, change and service that. Check it all out the clutch on there. Uh, service the knuckles. Go through the pump a little bit. 00:00:53 Go through our Verigation Pump Spa on the back. Uh, get that all ready. And just some basic preventative maintenance here. 00:01:01 It's a pretty simple system, actually Runs on pressure. We move this around to three different systems. We irrigate about 120 acres altogether with this system. 00:01:10 Uh, it's very simple. It's mechanical. Uh, it's something we can work on. And, uh, just changing out the sand today, uh, 00:01:18 Kurt Grimm's guys are outside here starting up our other systems. And, you know, it, uh, 00:01:23 irrigation system will be upon us here in a couple weeks 00:01:25.865 --> 00:01:27.045

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