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Kōrero: Irrigation and drainage

Moving irrigation unit

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Moving irrigation unit

This irrigator sprays water in a wide circle. It moves slowly across a paddock by winding up a wire onto a drum at its base. The other end of the wire is fixed at the end of the paddock and acts as an anchor for the spray unit.

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Terry Heiler, Irrigation and drainage – Irrigation methods, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19643/moving-irrigation-unit (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Terry Heiler, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.