I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on each side
of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and placing it in the middle
of the walk doesn't get the water over the shrubs. I need to raise it up to
clear the bushes. I have the Gardena Aquazoom. Are there tripods, or something
made to raise this higher so I can water both sides of the lawn at once?

Sheellah wrote:

I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on each side
of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and placing it in the middle
of the walk doesn't get the water over the shrubs. I need to raise it up to
clear the bushes. I have the Gardena Aquazoom. Are there tripods, or something
made to raise this higher so I can water both sides of the lawn at once?


"Necessity is the mother of invention!?"

How about an old camera tripod

Will the shrubs support a board to set the springler on?

Do you have an old stool?

Concrete blocks stacked up


Kevin

(Sheellah) wrote in
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I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on
each side of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and
placing it in the middle of the walk doesn't get the water over the
shrubs. I need to raise it up to clear the bushes. I have the Gardena
Aquazoom. Are there tripods, or something made to raise this higher so
I can water both sides of the lawn at once?

Take a look at the bottom of the sprinkler. if there aren't any obvious
attachment points, then there probably isn't anything specific you can buy
to raise it up, in which case you can still jury-rig something. Does it
vibrate a lot when in use?

Sorry can't help you any more, I can't tell one sprinkler from another,
unless they go by names like "thupathupa" sprinkler or "whoosh-whoosh"
sprinkler.

-- Salty

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(Sheellah) wrote in
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I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on
each side of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and
placing it in the middle of the walk doesn't get the water over the
shrubs. I need to raise it up to clear the bushes. I have the
Gardena
Aquazoom. Are there tripods, or something made to raise this higher
so
I can water both sides of the lawn at once?

I believe tripod sprinklers are not hard to find but are a bit
expensive. I bought one at Home Depot a few years ago.and I recently
saw one at Lowe's. Most are only 3-4 feet high. Mine can extend to
about 6 feet but over 4 feet it gets a bit unstable at full supply
pressure. It has a 1/2 inch IP fitting and you can mount one of those
Rain Bird impulse type whirly-gig sprinklers on it and adjust it to
cover an arc from about 15 deg to a full 360. Try googling with "tripod
sprinkler" or "raintower" There is a photo of one at
http://www.rittenhouse.ca/asp/product.asp?PG=546
Olin

Sheellah said:

I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on each side
of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and placing it in the middle
of the walk doesn't get the water over the shrubs. I need to raise it up to
clear the bushes. I have the Gardena Aquazoom. Are there tripods, or something
made to raise this higher so I can water both sides of the lawn at once?

I've tied my oscillating sprinkler to the bottom of an old plastic milk crate.
A short stack of milk crated can then lift it up to reach over low shrubs.
I've even set the sprinkler (on its milk crate) on top of an old metal trash
can (with a flat lid) to get it up even higher. You may have to carefully
dress the hose -- even tie it to the stack -- to make the whole setup stable.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
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Sheellah said:

I have a front lawn that is divided by a walk with 3 foot shrubs on
each side
of the walk. I just got an oscillating sprinkler, and placing it in
the middle
of the walk doesn't get the water over the shrubs. I need to raise
it up to
clear the bushes. I have the Gardena Aquazoom. Are there tripods,
or something
made to raise this higher so I can water both sides of the lawn at
once?

I've tied my oscillating sprinkler to the bottom of an old plastic
milk crate.
A short stack of milk crated can then lift it up to reach over low
shrubs.
I've even set the sprinkler (on its milk crate) on top of an old
metal trash
can (with a flat lid) to get it up even higher. You may have to
carefully
dress the hose -- even tie it to the stack -- to make the whole
setup stable.

Why not just set it to do half a sweep and put it on the other side of
the hedge. Once that side is wet, move it to the other hedge. You only
need to water each side half as long, since the sweep only has to go
half the distance.

Phrederik wrote:

Why not just set it to do half a sweep and put it on the other side of
the hedge. Once that side is wet, move it to the other hedge. You only
need to water each side half as long, since the sweep only has to go
half the distance.


Even less than half the time for each side. The water that would have
been wasted in run-off into the storm sewer from the sidewalk would now
be going on the lawn instead. And it would be cheaper in two ways: The
extra water spent watering the sidewalk doesn't need to be bought, and a
stand for the sprinkler wouldn't need to be bought.

--
Warren H.

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