10-5 FB Dammer-Dyker

 Saving water and preventing erosion thanks to an innovative welder. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back with details.

Northside Welding is a small welding company in Paul and they’ve had some success designing hydraulic equipment for purposes of reducing irrigation costs and erosion. One of their first products was the Water Saver, a reservoir cultivator that reduces irrigation induced erosion in sprinkler irrigated fields. Here’s owner Todd Wheeler describing his invention: “The common name for it is dammer-dyker.  It’s a hydraulic reset shank that runs in a furrow that loosens up the dirt and an individual paddle wheel behind that’s got 5 arms off of it and as it rolls it pushes the arm down into the ground and then rolls over the top of it and  creates a dyke. With sprinkler irrigation and especially pivots, They put down so much water that if there’s any slope to the field at all, the water just runs down to the low spots. Every 24 inches this creates a dam and a reservoir so that the water doesn’t run down the corrugates. It stays right there and seeps into the ground so you get more even watering from your pivot.