looking for a big sprinkler

[axpilot]

I know I should have a irrigation system, but just cant do that right now. I am looking for something big to water my 4+ acres. I know I can't do it all at once, just wondering if you had any suggestions. I am tired of crappy wal-mart sprinklers. I am having a irrigation well dug and then will put in a system, so don't ride me too hard about this.

Jake

[jkingrph]

National walking sprinkler makes a tractor type that will pull about 300 feet of hose. It has a front wheel that is grooved and uses the hose as a guide, rear wheels are cast iron and have spikes for tread , steel gears and cast iron body even has a grease fitting for the wheels. It throws water out to about 20 feet on each side. For 4 acres you would still have to lay out a lot of heavy hose, but put out enough and you could let it go all day. Look at this site:

http://www.nationalwalkingsprinkler.com/

Another option would be one of the impulse type sprinklers mouted on a tall tripod. Get a heavy duty brass/bronze sprinkler head and it should last a lifetime.

[JB1]

you could always get one of these.

[topsites]

Yeah, that one's still a bit puny ...

But I found as soon as we get away from cheap sprinklers we're into farm supplies, not only do these require WATER
(oh I meant to say you need PRESSURE) but also a hose and a spigot per sprinkler, because each sprinkler doesn't deliver more
water to the ground, it's there's just more sprinklers set up all around.

The price of a farm sprinkler, you sitting down?
$60 each.

I have one, yes, one.

Keep in mind I doubt seriously that a hose manifold hooked to one standard household spigot would deliver the water needed
for more than one at a time, I find I can't even hook more than my one sprinkler to the spigot before it loses all pressure.
So what's the difference, a farm sprinkler or a regular one, for a regular house it's not much to be honest.

Northern used to sell them, they still might, not sure.
Don't get plastic ones, best I can tell you.

A decent setup would look like this:

[Wizz]

From personal experience I can tell you not to use the small to medium sized brass head sprinklers (Gilmore, etc)....the coil spring on the shaft isn't very thick in diameter and the coil springs snap over time right in the middle, I've had a few fail that way. The bigger brass head sprinklers don't have that problem as the coil spring is thicker in diameter.

Topsites, is that a pic of the farm sprinklers you mention for $60? Thanks

[RAlmaroad]

I know I should have a irrigation system, but just cant do that right now. I am looking for something big to water my 4+ acres. I know I can't do it all at once, just wondering if you had any suggestions. I am tired of crappy wal-mart sprinklers. I am having a irrigation well dug and then will put in a system, so don't ride me too hard about this.

Jake

Jake: Check out the professional line of Hunter Impact or Rainbird Impacts and the larger 5000 rotors. The main thing is that you have enough pressure to run the heads and not overload one station with too many heads.. Look into the Goulds pumps. Install at least 1" lines from pump, a good controller (I'd had great success with the Hunter Pro-C--you can add modules up to 16), Quality Jar Type Solenoid Valves for easy cleaning. Some of those well people will NOT put in a large enough pump. Finally when the well is put in--make sure there is a large enough well point to furnish the pump. I suggest 1.5" line to pump from well point.