§ Type 04 — Application
Agricultural
Safeguard barns, machinery sheds, packhouses and farming infrastructure during wildfire season.
§ Overview
Perimeter configuration — AGR
Safeguard barns, machinery sheds, packhouses and farming infrastructure during wildfire season.
Long-throw perimeter configuration for farm buildings and boundary lines, running from farm water with a pump rather than a municipal connection.
Use the Rainmaker System Designer to configure the modular platform to your architecture, water source and roofline — the calculator returns module count, layout and pricing in under two minutes.
§ Intended applications
Specified for these environments.
- Barns, machinery sheds and implement stores
- Packhouses, cold stores and processing buildings
- Workers' housing and farmstead roofs
- Boundary lines where veld meets vineyard or orchard blocks
- Farmyard perimeters and fuel or feed storage areas
Not specified for
- Crop irrigation duty — the configuration is specified for protection saturation
§ Engineering specifications
Specified for agricultural conditions.
Only the data relevant to this configuration is listed. Quantities and total flow are confirmed for your property in the Preliminary Protection Design Report.
Module & nozzle configuration
- Module length
- 6 m
- Flexible sprinkler heads per module
- 2 (long-throw nozzle)
- Nozzle type
- Long-throw, wind-resistant large-droplet
- Perimeter per module
- 6 m, joined end-to-end
- Nominal flow per module
- ≈ 1 500 L/h
Mounting & installation
- Mounting position
- Shed and packhouse ridges, or perimeter posts and walls
- Bracket
- UV-stabilised PVC bracket for permanent outdoor exposure
- Fixing method
- Screw-fixed and epoxy bonded
- Serviceability
- Individual modules isolated without dropping the run
- Installation route
- Farm maintenance team or plumber
Coverage
- Spray radius (per sprinkler head)
- 12 metres
- Coverage pattern
- Continuous overlapping wetted band along the run
- Protected zone
- Building roof plus adjoining ground and fuel load
- Run strategy
- Sustained through the front and following ember fall
Water supply & flow requirements
- Minimum operating pressure
- 2 bar at inlet
- Typical source
- Borehole, dam, reservoir or farm storage
- Booster pump
- Farm pump duty confirmed against run length
- Pre-season check
- Flow test at the pump before fire season
- Control
- Manual valve at the pump or header
§ Engineering notes
Why this configuration is built the way it is.
- Perimeter runs are laid out against the prevailing fire approach, not around the full property boundary.
- Runs can be extended or reconfigured as blocks, fence lines and fuel loads change between seasons.
- Pump duty, not module count, usually sets the practical run length on farm supplies.