Preventing flood damage to a centre pivot - video transcript

Pat Daley from Daley Water Services describes what you can do before a flood to minimise damage to a centre pivot in the case study video.

[Pat Daley from Daley Water Services]

Some prevention things if you ever know you are getting another flood coming through, which saves a lot of work afterwards, is the centre boxes can be undone... and the easiest thing to do instead of getting an electrician out is just to undo the cable ties and get a rope and winch that centre box up to a height you think it will be safe.

That is not going to stop the gear boxes from getting submerged but this is the major bit of electrical equipment.

In terms of how much water can go up the machine before they start to move... that varies between machines because some machines are heavier than others. But if these are just air only in the tyres it will get to a point where it does take some of the weight, and with a velocity of flow there it could shift.

If you knew that you were in one of those situations, and it was going to happen fairly regularly, you could make tie down points for the base beams where you just use a turnbuckle and you tighten that down onto that tie down post and that would be where you could park the machine up generally.

Watch the Inspecting a flooded centre pivot (Part 3: preventative measures) case study video.