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Who sets up the irrigation pumps in the delta for farmers??

What do you mean by "set up"? Installation? Permitting? Power Unit sales or leases? Irrigation Management?

Mainly installation of the engines that run the pumps.

Sayle Oil Company in Charleston

Scott Petroleum leases units as well. Shoot novacain a PM and he should be able to help you out with some dealers in your geographic area.

Thanks guys!

I would check with Click on here.

I got a question I've always wondered about.

Why don't those engines have a transmission so they can run at lower rpm and burn less fuel?

Throttle it down

that'd have been fun, though....a platform atop the diesel tank with 3 on the floor, a clutch & throttle pedal (no wheel & no reverse, of course) to get'er up to speed. there would've been countless flappers blown off the end of our pivot, had we been on that system! too much youth (ig'nance) and testosterone (about the same)...i'd have been redlining each shift!!!

Wildfowler wrote:I got a question I've always wondered about.

Why don't those engines have a transmission so they can run at lower rpm and burn less fuel?

Groundwater pumps as well as motors(power units) have a have a optimum point or range that they work in ,call it a power band or curve.
Most modern day power units and pumps are size to run at 1760 rpm. On most of these pumps systems if you are running out of the power band or Curve, say around 1250 to 1300 rpm range , you cant get water out of the ground.

Propeller pumps (camel backs,pto pumps, 3 point hitch tractor connected pumps) can be idled down to possibly reduce fuel but they are still not as efficient at lower rpms. It just depends on the pump curve for each particular size and type of pump.