Excavator cleaning an irrigation ditch - GIF

**Altair** · Mar 11, 2023, 03:42 PM

Excavator cleaning an irrigation ditch.

Previously:

Irrigation trench cutter - GIF
Controlling irrigation flow using a water-filled bag - GIF
Tractor-mounted irrigation pump - GIF
Simple irrigation siphon - GIF
Balloon lifted farm field irrigation - GIF

**sossol** · Mar 13, 2023, 07:35 PM

Oddly satisfying. Looks like it would be fun to do as well.

Neil

**Frank S** · Mar 14, 2023, 08:25 AM

And to think us kids had to clean out the irrigation canals on my uncle's farm in Colorado by walking through knee deep mud with shovels.

**hemmjo** · Mar 19, 2023, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by Frank S

And to think us kids had to clean out the irrigation canals on my uncle's farm in Colorado by walking through knee deep mud with shovels.

Those are the things that made us into who we are. How many kids do you know these days that would do that!!!

**Frank S** · Mar 19, 2023, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

Those are the things that made us into who we are. How many kids do you know these days that would do that!!!

Yep and in another 50 years guys will be sitting around saying just imagine we used to have to sit for hours on end operating that excavator cleaning out those ditches not it does it by itself or the ditch will be self cleaning. Just using the ditch as a parity...