Irrigation Design and Construction

How many people does it take to construct an irrigation system? A man, his wife and a tractor. And TIME.
We were helped during this process by funding from the the NRCS and by Civil Engineer, Dan Pietro, who designed the irrigation system.
We started on November 8, 2015 with much of the work being done in December, 2015 and continued until it became too cold for us to work on January 3, 2016. But by then, we had done all of the trenching, putting in the underground pipes, wiring and covered up the two trenches that we dug.
During the time that we couldn't go out to work, my husband sourced and put together the irrigation manifold assembly The rest of the work occurred in July, 2016, that included installing the irrigation hose on the 36 rows of vines, putting up the scaffolding for the irrigation manifold assembly, renting a generator and having Tony, our well guy come out to put in the pump and the controller.
Recently, I decided to compile all of the still photos I took during the construction of our irrigation system and make it into a movie.

This summer, we needed to use our irrigation system. Our vines were signaling to us that they could use some water.