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what are the different types of sprinklers
well there's a few of them out there
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let's talk about the most common ones i'm
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dwane smith your sprinkler warehouse
product specialist let's get started
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let's start off with rotors sprays and
rotary nozzles since those three are the
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most frequently used in residential landscapes
these three come in pop-ups and shrub versions
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so a pop-up is a sprinkler head that hides below
the surface of the soil and pops up when it's
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time to water whether it's a rotor or spray
body they both have a spring which keeps the
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sprinkler collapsed until the valve in the zone
opens and the water pressure pushes up the riser
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shrub versions don't pop up and are installed on
shrub sticks rotors have gears inside the body
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that rotate this turret on top it sprays out a
stream of water that rotates there are partial
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circle rotors that rotate from something like 45
degrees to 360 depending on the brand and model
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and there are 360 degree only rotors
that just go round and round in a circle
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pop-up heights for rotors are most frequently four
inch six and 12 inch also with four inch by being
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by far the most common and there are also the
shrub models rotors are usually used to water
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lawns four inches great for most grass lawns
six and 12 inch varieties are often used for
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other types of ground cover and as i mentioned
before there are shrub style rotors they're
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put on shrub sticks and they should only
be located where no one will trip on them
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they're primarily placed in flower beds behind
larger plants and shrubs so this is a spray body
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and this is a spray head although they're used
fairly interchangeably it's both the body and a
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head i don't know why that is sprays emit water in
kind of a fan shape spray heads come in a variety
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of pop-up heights the most common being two
four six and twelve inch pop-ups and also shrub
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models while rotors are usually used for lawns
sprays are more commonly used for flower beds
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spray bodies often are purchased separately from
the nozzles although you can buy some already put
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together there are a large variety of nozzles
to meet your ever need nozzles come in various
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spray patterns anywhere from a 45 degree arc to a
full 360 degrees there's some that have adjustable
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arcs and there's some strip patterns that are
meant for little slivers of grass or plant beds
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spray nozzles come in various spray distances
that's called the radius by the way the distance
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a sprayer rotor throws water a shrub style spray
body is basically just an adapter that attaches
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a nozzle to a shrub stick rotary nozzles use
moving fingers of water to irrigate your landscape
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they are very water efficient rotary nozzles
fit the very same pop-up bodies as spray nozzles
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you can buy them separately from the bodies or
already installed on the pop-up body for you
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like sprays they come in a large variety of
distances and shapes including some strip
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patterns as well both sprays and rotary nozzles
tend to use less water than rotors rotors are
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more of a powerhouse covering large distances and
areas they have a larger radius than most sprays
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usually 17 feet or more they need more
water pressure ideally around 45 psi
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sprays need less water pressure 30 psi is optimal
in fact too much water pressure will cause them to
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mist so if water pressure is too high you can buy
spray bodies that have pressure regulating stem
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and in some states you're required to by
law by sprays with pressure regulating
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stems rotary nozzles operate optimally around
40 to 45 psi and they have throw distances
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anywhere from 8 to 24 feet next up impacts these
are kind of old-fashioned sprinklers they were
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invented in 1933 so they've been around a while
they are a type of rotor they turn as they spray
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impacts are noisier than the gear
driven rotors that i showed you before
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they throw water farther and they tend to use
a lot of water the inside of an impact is just
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a tube which means that there are no gears to
clog up so impacts are better for you when the
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water source is something like a pond or a well
they're used a lot in agriculture because you
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can get the brass ones like this which tend
to be really sturdy i've seen them used in
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nurseries and they're used in some places to keep
dust down like horse arenas and there are pop-up
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versions like this flood bubblers pour water
out under the ground in a pretty tight radius
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18 inches or less in fact some just kind
of drool down whatever they're attached to
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they put water in a confined space really quickly
creating a puddle one of their uses is inside of a
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watering basin to saturate the soil for newly
planted trees they can be used for shrubs or
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ground covers in the right situations and they're
used in locations where you really want to avoid
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overspray like next to floor to ceiling windows
hose and sprinklers are a possible solution if you
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just need some spot watering in certain areas
and don't want to install a sprinkler system
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if you do use hose end sprinklers a hose in timer
can help you water consistently by turning on and
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off the water on a schedule or you can just
set the timer to run a specified amount of
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time so you don't have to worry about forgetting
that you left the water running in the not quite
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sprinkler category there are a variety of sprays
jets and emitters that work with a drip system
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drip systems use a lot less water and lower water
pressure to deliver water more directly to plants
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to avoid watering areas that you don't need they
use different tubing and connectors than a typical
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sprinkler system although they can be tied into
a regular sprinkler system on a separate zone
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so there's spike bubblers drip emitters jets
sprays and all kinds of interesting solutions
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there's also misters and foggers and there's
sprinklers that hang upside down which have
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applications in greenhouses and that's not all
but that's all i'm going to cover today there
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are other specialty items that we don't need
to get into for this video well we covered the
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basics there are a variety of other videos we
have on sprinklers that are more in depth and
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can help you make a decision on what you need
for your landscape project so go check those
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