look into Mr. Landscaper at Lowes. Expandable, customizable
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Craig653
My dad has one just like this. That thing will last decades
cmull123
You mean… a sprinkler?
Bed_Head_Jizz
What’s the point in this.. just a way to water your lawn right? So why this and not just a good 30-60$ lawn sprinkler?
Slack-Bladder
You just made a expensive sprinkler bruv
DIY_CHRIS
An in-ground sprinkler system, parts-wise is actually very cheap. You’ll spend a few hundred on pipe, sprinkler heads, anti-siphon valves, and fittings. The controller can also be built with a raspberry pi running Opensprinkler, $20 relay board, and 24 VAC wall transformer… or you can just buy a consumer-ready controller for a few hundred. Where the cost adds up is in the labor digging trenches and putting the dirt back in. But you can DIY all of this by renting a trencher for ~$100/day at HD and doing all the assembly yourself. But you still need to manually toss the dirt back in and tamp down level.
I did a two-zone and three-zone systems for our front and back yards last year, but dug by hand since trencher access was not possible. It was about 200 ft of trenches by hand.
jasonasselin
How is this cheaper. Sprinkler components are incredibly cheap. Pvc fittings are not cheaper. I dont get this
neil470
For everyone wondering why they didn’t just buy a purpose-made above ground sprinkler, I feel like they are trying to use the sprinkler heads that will eventually get buried, so as to not buy a bunch of above-ground sprinklers that will sit unused after the in-ground system is installed.
Alone-Tackle-17
If it works it works
sushirolldeleter
Past-Direction9145
man the bots be bad lately.
as if anyone would make this over a real sprinkler.
bots don’t understand context. and there isn’t even a way to attach this to a hose.
no one, literaly no one would ever build that instead of just putting one of these down with a normal hose.
I keep seeing these bot farming posts posted to this sub every morning. they’re posted by people who haven’t used their accounts for 4 years or more. and the “people” who respond to it are also bots. which is why no one is criticizing it but a couple people scratching their heads. all the rest of the comments on this post LOOK normal. but realize the above isn’t real.
no one would ever build that when they could just stick this in for less money than all those parts.
its just straight up bot farming. letting the bots post and comment. I’m gonna be leaving reddit if it doesn’t improve because I’m not gonna waste my time reading bot posts and waste my time commenting on bot posts.
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Did you use jb weld to glue the joints?
look into Mr. Landscaper at Lowes. Expandable, customizable
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My dad has one just like this. That thing will last decades
You mean… a sprinkler?
What’s the point in this.. just a way to water your lawn right? So why this and not just a good 30-60$ lawn sprinkler?
You just made a expensive sprinkler bruv
An in-ground sprinkler system, parts-wise is actually very cheap. You’ll spend a few hundred on pipe, sprinkler heads, anti-siphon valves, and fittings. The controller can also be built with a raspberry pi running Opensprinkler, $20 relay board, and 24 VAC wall transformer… or you can just buy a consumer-ready controller for a few hundred. Where the cost adds up is in the labor digging trenches and putting the dirt back in. But you can DIY all of this by renting a trencher for ~$100/day at HD and doing all the assembly yourself. But you still need to manually toss the dirt back in and tamp down level.
I did a two-zone and three-zone systems for our front and back yards last year, but dug by hand since trencher access was not possible. It was about 200 ft of trenches by hand.
How is this cheaper. Sprinkler components are incredibly cheap. Pvc fittings are not cheaper. I dont get this
For everyone wondering why they didn’t just buy a purpose-made above ground sprinkler, I feel like they are trying to use the sprinkler heads that will eventually get buried, so as to not buy a bunch of above-ground sprinklers that will sit unused after the in-ground system is installed.
If it works it works
man the bots be bad lately.
as if anyone would make this over a real sprinkler.
bots don’t understand context. and there isn’t even a way to attach this to a hose.
no one, literaly no one would ever build that instead of just putting one of these down with a normal hose.
I keep seeing these bot farming posts posted to this sub every morning. they’re posted by people who haven’t used their accounts for 4 years or more. and the “people” who respond to it are also bots. which is why no one is criticizing it but a couple people scratching their heads. all the rest of the comments on this post LOOK normal. but realize the above isn’t real.
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no one would ever build that when they could just stick this in for less money than all those parts.
its just straight up bot farming. letting the bots post and comment. I’m gonna be leaving reddit if it doesn’t improve because I’m not gonna waste my time reading bot posts and waste my time commenting on bot posts.
An orbit on a stake is even more affordable.
Good job.. don’t listen to the critics..
Here is a video describing a similar build:
https://youtu.be/-hfIMgxZpVQ?feature=shared