I watched your video last night and built my sled today. Easy as pie to do. Purchased all the parts from Lowe's. Now it cost a little more because I did not have the Cement and Primer and I bought a PVC cutter. But I am more than happy with it. My friend did two of them and his are 20 foot long and he has three pop ups in his. I wish I would have thought about a more ridged PVC, seems a little to flexy but, I am more than happy. Thanks for the video.
Great job! Most creative for sure. We both work or worked for Lowe's for may years and this is a really educational Do-it-Yourself. Thank you so much and Please have a wonderful weekend.
I built one like this and I added screw together coupling in the middle so I could take it apart and added a valve to the end so I could drain it for winter and also wash it out
This is such an awesome project for my 2 year old and I to do this weekend. She loves being outside in water. I’m just conflicted cause we live in AZ which is a desert and wasting a resource just to play in it is gnawing at me regardless of how happy it will make my little honey badger lol. I’ll also be the idiot supervising her in 110 degree weather burning up while she have a blast 😕😆
One problem with a big sled as this, is that storage can be an issue, since it does not break down for storage. If left on the grass for days, it will kill the grass beneath it. It would probably even better to make these so they could be taken apart for storage. Not sure if the t's and all could be pushed together and not permanently glued together and that they would still stay connected soundly so they didn't pop apart when the water is turned on to the system and pressure is applied. May make on like that and just experiment to see if it can be done and thus, eliminate any storage issue that the lengthy sleds would have. Fan sprinkler heads can still work on such a system. I have seen a much, much smaller version of this same system that would actually work quite well in many yards. Currently, I have a system that is using sprinkler heads mounted with nipples and onto spikes. I use water hoses of various lengths to link the different heads in line so that my system fits well for my yard. I can replace the hoses with different lengths if I need to. I always run 4 sprinkler heads with the complete hose unit assembled, as the water pressure runs the same, but if you start adding many more per section, it will drop. I have a unit at the faucet which allows me to hook on 2 hoses per faucet. I just put on the same type of split unit to add 4 hoses, but I have not tried it out to see if water pressure will remain constant with 4 hoses running out of the faucet or not. I'll do that later today. It is a workable system, but it too lends itself to having issues in storage. Rolling up 10' and 25' and 50' hoses with all those sprinklers included is a real chore to do the daily watering required for my new sod lawn in my front yard. A sled system will work even better, I am guessing, but that same issue of storage is indeed plaguing each version when the pieces are long and permanently joined together. All in all though, this sort of system far outweighs using the typical sprinklers in my opinion and more so if you don't have an underground sprinkler system to depend upon. A big plus is that you are probably not going to mow over the sprinkler heads by accident and break them or even have one break off from just being old and brittle over time. Nice video and thanks for sharing it.
Great information, I made a hook on my fence that I lay it up on when not using. It works great for keeping it off the lawn. Thanks for the great comment.
I’ve been thinking about making one for my narrow backyard. Is it possible to not have the water run through the legs. I’m curious if that will help with water pressure. I need go to back and make a parts list. Thanks for posting.
I've studied the issue with extraneous parts. As long as you use solid, not flexible, plastic, your water pressure should not be significantly different. This goes for your hose, too. Don't use a stretchy hose. Use the largest diameter hose you want to afford. If you wanted to be extra about your water pressure, use a larger diameter pipe for the long pieces and all the way to the sprinklers. He used 3/4" pipe, which is much, much better than 1/2", so I don't think going to 1" would improve it.
Yeah it’s working great. If at anytime I feel the water is slowing it’s only because of debris in the little sprinkler filter. I clean it out and it’s good to go.
How long are the other pieces - between the sprinkler T and the ends & the stabilzier pieces? I got that the center is 10' but what about the rest of the pieces?
You can get them at a hardware store. He got his at Ace Hardware, but I've seen them at Lowe's and Home Depot. If there is someone there to help, you might have to ask for help finding it.
@@LifeLessOrdinary you already have the sprinkler heads may be add 2 more @ $5 each a 100’ of 3/4 or 1’ tubing $30 to $50 and some elbow grease n you’re set, just saying...
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