Irrigation Setup or Repair

A pipe repair in a field starts with finding the leak, which often means walking a line looking for a wet patch, then digging without hitting the pipe. After that it is cutting, deburring, gluing or clamping, and waiting for pressure to come back so the fix can be checked. Every step involves a tool, a judgment, and a chance to get it wrong.

Setup work includes laying drip tape along rows, punching emitters, connecting laterals to a mainline, installing filters and pressure regulators, and flushing the system before closing the ends. Workers handle PVC, poly pipe, couplers, and valves, often in mud and sometimes with water still running.

We film the worker's hands and the pipe from a head camera and the wider trench or row from fixed cameras, all time-aligned. Collection covers whole shifts on working farms and in managed landscapes in five countries. The people in the footage agreed to be filmed, were compensated, and the material is cleared for training commercial models.

Episodes correspond to jobs like locating a leak, replacing a coupler, or laying one row of tape. The steps inside each one carry plain-language labels and a success or failure tag, so a joint that fails under pressure is marked. Tracking of hands, tools, and parts is optional. The dataset is delivered in your own schema to your own storage.

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