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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: StinkyPete on January 01, 2016, 10:15:46 AM
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I don't know about anyone else, but I've always struggled to keep dirt and grass out of the pop-up sprinklers in my lawns. Dirt gets washed in and the Santa Anna Couch grass just keeps creeping in, and both clog the mechanism.
In a flash of inspiration this is what I came up with. I had a local concrete cutter make some appropriate size holes in some 300mm square pavers. It cost me $9.00 per hole. I've set the paver into the lawn and raised the sprinkler heads a little so when retracted they are little higher than the paver. Problem solved! No ingress of dirt, and I can trim around the paver with a whipper snipper. They are also obvious enough in the lawn, so that I won't (or Chris won't) hit them with the mower.
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Hmmm. Well that takes care of the one OZSTOC member with an irrigation system...
Or is there someone else?
We just use rain here in Brisparadise. :grin |-i
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Rain?? I can barely remember what it is.
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Wet stuff that falls from the sky :grin
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Don't understand why you want to water the grass, it will only make it grow- then you have to go and mow the bloody stuff when you cannot find your cat/dog anymore. Mowing cuts into riding time too much for me.
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Wet stuff that falls from the sky :grin
Also available in solid state, of various gauges.
(http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/kjm47/hail_zpsfxb1kwnx.jpg)
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmI hate clogs too I think that is the reason I never moved to Holland...Just Say`in.. :wht11
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Wet stuff that falls from the sky :grin
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we had some of that stuff today.......and some would be saying to much; dried up as soon as it the ground.
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We had a little bit in the couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, and definitely didn't dry up when hitting the ground, not after the first 50mm or so..... :grin