I found it for $14.50 used at www.Bibliofind.com (now a part of Amazon)
George Castleberry
1954 BN1L-157155
1973 GMC Painted Desert
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From: <ken.landaiche@nokia.com>
To: <nick@landform.co.uk>; <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: Lawn Sprinkler System
>
> I tried Amazon, which offers a 1994 5th edition and a different ISBN
#0963509608. It unfortunately seems to be a hardcover, $59 book. Looks
pretty complete, though.
>
> Then there was the promising "Simplified Irrigation Design". But it was
also a hardcover book, and $50.
>
> Why do you suppose that this field doesn't support paperback books?
>
> I'll check the library!
>
> Ken Landaiche
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> At 10:39 25/08/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Can anyone recommend a good book on designing a underground lawn
sprinkler
> >system?
> >
> Try "Turf Irrigation Manual" by James A Watkins (previous Director of
> Training for Weather-matic) ISBN 74-31280. It doesn't leave many stones
> unturned...
>
> My copy is a 1990 5th printing, it may have been revised since, but you'll
> find more than you can want in it for irrigating your lawn. When you've
> finished you'll be looking to build a golf course so you can irrigate it.
>
> Someone else mentioned flexible pipe (MDPE or HPPE in UK, don't know what
> you call it in US) but it's worth considering. Mainly because it comes in
> rolls and cuts down on the number of joints and goes round corners better.
> As well as compression fittings you can use electrofusion joints so that
> can give you a whole new world of essential tools and skills to
investigate!
>
> Good luck,
>
> Nick Brearley
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