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Rainman7
11-08-2005, 07:27 PM
Has anyone used this product before? What do you think? And yes Hayes...like I said, I like to try new products, it keeps me interested.
Dirty Water
11-08-2005, 07:34 PM
I think its ugly, and its ability to water "15 zones at once" is a total joke.

You can't cover any irregular shape from one point, regardless of how fancy the device is.

Taking a look at the website, its obviously geared towards homeowners and non-irrigation professional landscapers...It says its better than a conventional sprinkler system because "They are expensive, water unevenly and are hard to reconfigure"...:laugh:

Look at this list, its a total joke:

http://www.accurain.com/whyaccurain.html

Plus each head is $200 :)
Rainman7
11-08-2005, 07:44 PM
I guess I should have explained, I was not intending to use it as a sprinkler system replacement. Believe it or not, I had a customer ask me to add a zone to water his patio and walk only. He said in the summer its hot on his feet.:cry: He did not want the surronding area wet which would be very difficult with a zone. So I thought this might work. I was wondering how accurate they are. Obviously, wind would probably be big factor.
Dirty Water
11-08-2005, 07:58 PM
Buy your customer a pair of sandles for $9.99
Rainman7
11-08-2005, 08:05 PM
Thats what his wife suggested while he was asking me about it. No good. Some people want things just to say they have it. Know the type?
Dirty Water
11-08-2005, 08:07 PM
Yeah, I've watered a few rock gardens with stream rotors because people like them to look wet.

Odd.

Is it a hardscape? Explain to him that water will wash out the sand in between the joints.
Jason Rose
11-08-2005, 08:10 PM
I'd like to see it work as accurate as it says it does in any area that's "real world" I notice WIND blowing on an almost daily basis around here... Fat chance you are going to be filling your bird bath, or even hitting anything you wanted to target more than once.

It's an extremely clever idea, I'll give it that. Whoever invented it is getting rich, maybe slowly, but there's so many people who buy into gimmiky stuff like that...
Rainman7
11-08-2005, 08:20 PM
Yeah, I've watered a few rock gardens with stream rotors because people like them to look wet.

Odd.

Is it a hardscape? Explain to him that water will wash out the sand in between the joints.

It's granite. The joints are very tight. Its sort of like a tile. At $70/sq.ft installed. it should come with its own cooling system.
PurpHaze
11-08-2005, 10:14 PM
Buy your customer a pair of sandles for $9.99

And a pair of Speedos. :p
PurpHaze
11-08-2005, 10:20 PM
Yeah, I've watered a few rock gardens with stream rotors because people like them to look wet.

Most of our shop area is not paved but has DG (decomposed granite) for parking of personal/work vehicles and drives that are not paved. About nine years ago I installed Hunter I-20's for dust control and wired the zones to our controller. Special program fires these zones nightly around 3:00 am and they work pretty good at keeping the dust down from all our trucks and tractors. :D
PurpHaze
11-08-2005, 10:28 PM
Has anyone used this product before? What do you think? And yes Hayes...like I said, I like to try new products, it keeps me interested.

LOL... Why would you think I'd mind? I've seen the info on them and they remind me of some type of fancy scifi laser. However, they look like they might make good statuary. :p
PurpHaze
11-08-2005, 10:29 PM
Yeah, I've watered a few rock gardens with stream rotors because people like them to look wet.

I would think that in your part of WA the rocks would always look wet. LOL :D