Home Made Sprinkler.

[Worth1]

I have fought with my feeble mind on where to post this.
It is about irrigation but yet it is a do it your self project.

I chose to post this in the do it your self in hopes that someone will get use out of it.

On these lazy summer days a person gets a little bored.
All of the tomatoes are gone and we have little to do but cool our heels and think about projects we have planned but put off for some reason.

Here is one such project I have had stored away in my tiny vault of a mind for all to enjoy.

It is the homemade sprinkler.
I have gotten tired of the ones at the store falling apart or corrosion taking over.
I also got tired of the lack of versatility from them.
What we have here is something that is cheap and easy to make.
I think my total is $10.00 and it works great.
Looks good too.
First I will put out the cut sheet and then the pictures.

3 PVC SCH 40 3/4 nipples 6 inches long.
1 PVC SCH 40 3/4 nipple 4 inches long.
1 PVC SCH 40 3/4 nipple 1 1/2 inches long.
3 PVC SCH 40 3/4 end caps.
1 PVC SCH 40 3/4 cross.
1 PVC SCH 40 3/4 x3/4x1/2 tee.
1 PVC SCH 40 3/4 female PVC slip hose adapter.
1 PVC 1/2 nipple (you can get the cut to length nipples from the sprinkler section).
1 1/2 sprinkler body and spray body of your choice.
I have mine on an old Hunter spray body I had around with a new Rain Bird R Series MPR Rotary nozzle.
Note Rain Bird and Hunter interchange Toro doesn't

Here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure.
I painted them (Yes them, I made a few) Vampire black so they dont look like cheap PVC and to protect the PVC from UV rays.

Think I might have one popping out a Jack O'lantern for Halloween.

Worth
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[Zana]

Going to have to check this out, Worth. My brother's place needs more than one sprinkler to cover the backyard. Yeah, I could move the dang thing, but it would definitely be simpler if all I had to do was turn them all on at once. Hmmmmmmm.....but in the mean time I have to do more prep work on the yard. I have to tame the jungle first.

Zana

[recruiterg]

Worth, you could add a cheap on/off valve to the other end and make the sprinkler linkable to another one. Just a thought.

[ContainerTed]

Worth, sometimes I start thinking you have a lot of extra time on your hands.

Neat, I think I might make a couple of those for next year.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by recruiterg

Worth, you could add a cheap on/off valve to the other end and make the sprinkler linkable to another one. Just a thought.

A good thought it is too.
((BUT)) I have 1/2 copper line feeding my water faucet and I had to take off the 1/2 hose bib, install a 3/4 valve and put in a 4 way splitter to get two to work.
It is too much water for one long hose and the wee 1/2 line to feed two in line with each other.
I tried and it doesn't work.
On top of that the line going to my house is 3/4 copper and it is 100 feet long.
This is too small a pipe for the length.
The friction loss is tremendous.

To cure this I have Frankenstein's monster put together in my house.
It is a one inch back flow assembly with a freeze protection bleed valve and strainer that will go out by the meter.
All of my irrigation water will go through this connected to a 1-1/4 main water loop in the front yard.

Worth

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by ContainerTed

Worth, sometimes I start thinking you have a lot of extra time on your hands.

Neat, I think I might make a couple of those for next year.

I have the ability to go on auto pilot at work and think these stupid things up.
Yes I do have too much time on my hands.

These might even make great stocking stuffers for Christmas.

Worth

[Zana]

OMG Worth....we could put orders in and you could fill your spare time making them for the rest of us? But I think even Boo Boo would wonder at all the sprinklers being tested out. LOL

Zana