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Above ground rotors on a spike

9 years ago

Hi I'm taking a look at a cheaper way of irrigating my lawn and am looking at a rainbird rotor mounted on a hose spike https://www.lowes.ca/sprinkler-heads-nozzles/rain-bird-32-ft-rotor-spike-sprinkler_g1459362.html I have a rectangular lawn of 53 ft in length and 18 feet wide for 954sq ft would it be possible to just put 3 of these together and get a decent coverage?

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9 years ago
They are meant to be connected to a hose, so you will be moving the hose around a lot.

Getting coverage for a rectangle with circular spray heads is tricky. These can adjust into partial circles ... draw it out on graph paper to make sure you are covering the whole lawn without overspray.

What is critical is the radius, the spray distance. If you put one in the middle of the long end, it will reach the corners on that side easily, but it will also go way over the opposite edge.

You might do better with one of the waterfall (back and forth oscillating) spray heads.
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