My neighbor convinced me to grab this sprinkler instead of going out and constantly moving my sprinkler every 30 minutes. It moves super slow and gives each spot it hits about .5-1inch of water on the high setting. I love it. You just make it "route" with the water hose and it slowly walks the hose as it waters the yard. I run it for about 90minytes until it hits its stopper and stops itself from spraying anymore water. Super convenient and useful. Thought more people would think it's useful or just kinda cool.
by dcboy23
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How does it do close up I feel like there’d be a big dead spot were you put it usually
I love these tractor sprinklers. I’ve used them a lot in the past. You just need to be aware of the radius of your turns or it jumps the hose.
This is damn near 100 year old tech.
I got one of these lil rigs. I have a 100ft lot and it crosses it in a couple hours.
What length hose did you get?
ALL ABOARD THE RAIN TRAIN CHOO CHOO
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My favorite lawn tractor of all time
Wait, they fucking move?!
This one is better.
Grew up with one…super heavy. We have valve it would run into that would shut the water off when it was done.
lol, loved playing with those in the 80s, and they were 30 years old at that point
I was just singing this things praises the other day! As a kid I thought they were so stupid because I didn’t realize they moved. As an adult with a large strangely shaped yard, this thing worked like a charm. I have fun making “roads” with the hose for to wind around.
Pro tip: you can adjust the angle of the sprayer arms up or down. This changes the coverage range as well as making it go faster/slower.
This is a silly question and I apologize for my naivety. How do you prevent the hose you lay down from “burning” a line in your grass after this is done with its cycle? If I set this up before I leave for work and it’s done by say 10 AM, it sits in the heat 6+ hours before I get home. Wouldn’t the hose leave something like a dead line of grass through my yard or does it “drag” the hose back to the spigot to avoid this?
Had one of those for years at my last house and was amazing.
I still have one but don’t leave it unattended (like set it up then go to work) because I have come home to it having jumped the hose or it gets bogged down and has just been spinning it’s wheels, Also sometimes it didn’t shut off when it hits the stopper.
I have one of these in my shop on top of a cabinet as decoration. Old school, cast iron National Walking Sprinkler. The wheel locks weren’t engaged, I opened the door to grab a cab of spray paint, the sprinkler rolled and fell off and missed my skull by half a foot. Would have at a minimum been a trip to the ER. Things are tanks.
Dude, I thought I was “helping” my parents one weekend when they were gone. Started this bad boy up for them and then went out. They found it the next day when they got home, jumped the hose, ran free into a tree, dug down and jammed in a mud pit. Whoops.
Omg I feel old
Had mine Many years. Worked great up north where I never wanted to faff around draining sprinklers and then chasing breaks where water pooled and froze in Winter. Many of my friends participated in that late Spring ritual.
Gave it away when we moved to where water stays liquid all year.
Can u post the link of the product that you got ?
I need one that can travel an acre
I think your mower blades are not level. Either that, or you need to lift the blades when you are turning (if you are using a riding mower.) You’ve got a lot of round scalps I can see on that lawn.
the rain train man haha my dad always used one when i was growing up. all my friends thought it was the coolest thing lol. it had that stopper that it ran into which was just a nice on/off valve that you could use on its own and also a ramp you could put at any spot on the hose, it would drive up and hook onto and pull a valve closed on the bottom.
Do these work with thick grass? I let my zoysia grow tall at around 3.5”, and not sure this would work