ExactRail HO Wheel Line Irrigation System

Once we think manufacturers may have thought of everything possible to model someone like ExactRail comes out with this most unusual offering:

http://www.exactrail.com/wheel-line?&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09132011

As the description says, these wheelmove irrigation systems can be found all over the United States. In my part of the Frisco world there were probably some on the old Burrton Sub northwest of Wichita as there are still some in use along US54 between Wichita and Hutchinson.

I encourage any of you to identify and maybe post photos of ones in your part of Friscoland. How about you Ethan? These should be right up your alley!

 

Pretty interesting stuff. Them saying to present is a stretch. They aren't used at all around were I live. Too low to the ground for corn, soy beans and wheat. I don't know of anyone irrigating pasture around here. Now my dad said that he had seen a few out in western Oklahoma, but this was about 3 years ago. There are some people in my neck of the woods that use irrigaters for crops (my families farm not being one of them) but they are a different design.

Bottom line: Any one modeling Frisco from 50's on could use these if they were modeling central to western Kansas and or Texas in a pasture. Eastern KS, OK, TX, and Western MO would probably not see these in pastures because we get more rain.

Ethan

 

Ethan is probably pretty much spot on in his assessment of this item with the possible exception of the height. I believe that these are tall enough to grow soybeans and shorter vegetables. There is at least one in a field between here (Wichita) and Hutchinson along K96. What I did notice about the model was that it was one that probably was designed to go straight across a field. Most of the ones around here pivot in a circle around a central stanchion which I always assumed was a well.

 

Nice detail, but, says "brass construction". At that price, it must be Gold instead.