About
Built by a crew that does this work.
Elevation Irrigation comes from the founders of Desert Green Turf and Northwest Turf Solutions. We grow and install sand-based sod in the Pacific Northwest, and we travel across the country and abroad to build and renovate high-end sports facilities. Resetting sprinkler heads is part of almost every job we do.
Patents pending
Where it started
Patents pendingEvery Fraze mow meant taking out every head.
We Fraze mow customers’ fields all the time. Before the mower can go across, every sprinkler head has to come out: dig down to the swing joint, cap it and pull the head. After the Fraze and the regrade, we go back to every single one, dig it up again, uncap it, reinstall it and set it to the new grade.
About five years ago, we started asking the obvious question: why can’t we just lower the heads for the work, then bring them back up to grade?
And then they settle.
Even a careful reset doesn’t stay put. The fill settles, and the heads go down with it. On one job in Florida, we flew back three separate times to reset heads that had settled after we’d set them.
That’s why we designed our retrofit carrier: so a head can be lowered for the work and brought back to grade from the surface, again and again within its travel range, without reopening the turf.
The design brief
Written in the field’s terms:
- Adjust from the surface
- Hold position without a separate lock
- Keep the rotor’s stock internals
- Keep soil out of the moving parts
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