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11 guides tagged pipe sizing.
Lapeta pipe for sugarcane: sizes, grades and pitfalls
Choosing lapeta pipe for sugarcane — which bores fit furrow watering, what the rolls cost, and how one survives an 18-month crop and its ratoon.
2 October 2026 · 4 min read
Drip irrigation layout for one acre of chilli, worked
A drip irrigation layout for one acre of chilli at 60 cm rows, fully counted — 105 laterals, seven coils of tape, valves, pump hours and the total.
22 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip irrigation layout for one acre of banana, worked
A complete drip irrigation layout for one acre of banana at 1.8 m rows — lateral runs, spine, valve, pump hours, and the bill added up line by line.
22 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for banana: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls
Which drip laterals suit a banana crop, why the heavy wall earns its keep over a year in the ground, and the two mistakes banana buyers repeat.
14 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for sugarcane: built to outlast the ratoons
Drip for sugarcane stays buried for years, not months. The wall that survives ratoons, the paired-row lever, and what the water bill says.
13 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for orchard rows: sizes, grades and the pitfalls
Drip for orchard rows takes the least pipe of any planting — if the system is built for the mature canopy. Sizes, the online-emitter choice, two pitfalls.
13 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for chilli: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls
Chilli needs more lateral per acre than almost any drip crop. The grades that fit a single season, the metres to expect, and the two buying mistakes.
11 September 2026 · 3 min read
How to size a drip irrigation system in two numbers
Our estimator sizes a drip system from just crop and acres. Here is what it assumes, which numbers to check on your own field, and when to trust the result.
7 September 2026 · 3 min read
LDPE pipe weight to length: the wall thickness rule
Converting LDPE pipe weight to length takes one number — the wall. A 15 kg coil of 3 inch can be 90 or 135 metres; here is the arithmetic.
30 August 2026 · 4 min read
Pipe bore size vs coil length: reading a listing
A pipe listing gives you a size, a length and sometimes a weight. Here is what each number means, and which one you are probably misreading.
14 August 2026 · 5 min read
Which pipe size for irrigation: bore, run and pump
Which pipe size for irrigation? Match the pump outlet, step up a size on long runs, and order by millimetres — bore, run and pump in plain terms.
2 April 2026 · 4 min read
