HOW TO WINTERIZE BLOW WATER OUT UNDERGROUND SPRINKLERS PIPES DIY YOURSELF AIR COMPRESSOR SAVE MONEY

Hey everybody, it's Henry at Motors and Blowers. Today is the third straight beautiful day we have. It's like 68, 70 degrees, you know, short sleeve weather. And it's the weekend, so I can actually run some machines today. As you can see from my lawn, every day in the fall, leaves just slowly come down every day until all the leaves are depleted in the trees. So it's going to take a while, I'm going to be doing this a lot during the season, and I just can't wait until all the leaves fall from my neighbor's tree, you know. It's unfortunate because I don't have that many trees in my front yard, but yet I still have to do plenty of leaf removal because of my neighbor's tree. Today I'm going to whip out my Red Max, and I'm going to use the Toro 616Z Zero Turn to suck them up. Oh hey! So it's the next day, and again, another gorgeous day. Nice and warm, not a cloud in the sky. I figured look, we're nearing winter, right? I just turned off my water for the sprinklers because, you know, honestly my lawn's been mushy for quite a while, and because it's not warm anymore, you really don't need sprinklers going off every day. With Father Winter coming around the corner, right, it's going to get cold pretty soon. So you've got to blow out all your sprinkler pipes because they're filled with water. And in the wintertime, when it gets below 32 degrees, that water will expand and freeze. If it does that, it'll blow up all your pipes underground. So you've got to just blow some air through all the pipes and get more than half of that water out of your pipes. If you went and paid a winterizing company, they'll charge you between $50 to $300, depending on how big your lawn is. So while I used to pay $50, it's probably about $75 to get my property done. But for the past 10 years or so, I've been using my air compressor and I've been doing it myself. You don't have to get every drop of water out, just most of it, you know, so that it doesn't expand and freeze in your pipes. And that's what I'm going to be doing today because I know that I'm really not going to need the sprinklers anymore because every day when I walk around here, my lawn is just mushy and soft, you know, it's not hot enough to have all the moisture dry so that it's hard. This is the tractor that's outstanding. I don't think it'll take much to get this going. It's a Poulan XT. It's got a small engine in it, 12.5 horsepower, 38 def. It's an overhead valve. And honestly, I don't know what's wrong with it other than the fact that that tire's down and maybe the battery's dead. But I got this free from my friend Mark from East Northport. Look at the weenie wheels in the back. I've never seen such small wheels for a lawn tractor. But then again, it is a 38, you know what I mean? You can tell that the blade's kind of bent too. Still need to put a new carburetor on here because it surges like crazy. Rodimus Prime, man, I didn't use it this year. I did start it up and run it a little bit, but I don't really know what to do with it. Maybe I'll sell it. Anyway, here's my old Craftsman air compressor. I did drain the water and add oil to it. Did an oil change on this recently. I hadn't done anything to it to the 15 years prior that I had it. Always works, and it's good enough just to blow most of the water out of your pipes. I have this air blowing nozzle on here, and I also fabricated an old hose that fits on here that I would just screw onto the nozzle that I have here, the faucet, right? I turned the water off on the interior of the house, and as you can see, when you turn it on, there's no water. Well, I want to get most of the water out anyway, so I'm just turning it on all the way. There's no water coming out, right? Here is my Water Master. This is the control valves. Ooh, Freddy! And basically, these four are four zones, right? This one here is the front. This is the side. This is the back, and that's the other side of the back. So basically, I'll just turn one valve open, push air through here, goes through the entire thing, blows out water for zone one, two, three, and four, and then when I'm done doing it all, I'll do it again just to get a little bit more water off, and then shut all these off for the winter, put the cover back on, and then most of the water will be out of the pipes. That's what I'm planning on doing. Because my air compressor is electric, I have to plug in electric cord all the way to the garage. You see? Yesterday, I blew leaves from my area, and today there's more. It will always be like that. There's Steve. He's blowing his leaves too. Even though he has landscapers, he still has to blow them. One day soon, maybe tomorrow, I'm going to start this baby up and see if it runs on its own. Been using my Red Max, been using this to suck up the leaves since I have a new bagger system I put on here. Jamal Alatet, just sitting there, don't know what to do with it. I can't get it in the backyard because it's a 46 wide deck. Blue Bayou, if we get snow, I'll run it and plow for the very first time in my life. But for today, I'm a couple of hours away from kickoff on the first game on Sunday. You know, you've got to watch football on Sunday. On a nice day, you don't really want to stay indoors, but football is football. You know, you've just got to watch it. I'm going to plug this in, power it all up, get this thing full until it stops, plug that into the faucet, and let's blow out our very first nozzle. So I had the thing plugged into my octopus of wires, and it was just too many things on that circuit, so it blew a circuit breaker. Plugged it somewhere else. I'm going to open this valve, and I think the first one is here. So that's it. That's all it took to blow out my sprinklers. You know, you do it every year. Save yourself $50, $75. Took maybe an hour out of my time, you know. Every little bit of savings helps, you know what I mean? As long as you're capable of doing it, you have the equipment to do it, why not do it? Save money! Should I try to start this thing right now, or should I wait for another episode? I'm kind of curious myself. We've got the fuel lines connected, got a fuel filter on there. We sprayed go-go juice in here last time, and it fired up for the duration of the go-go juice. But if I crank a little bit more, get the gas sucked over into this area, into the carburetor, will it run on its own? Will it run on its own? Let's try. Here we go. Oh, choke. So then once I start it, I've got to take it off a choke. How am I going to do that? The parking brake is busted. All right, here we go. We're going to try it. Maybe I can reach the choke from here. Here we go. I shut it off immediately because you saw how high the RPMs were. It's like the throttle is completely out of control. Let me move the throttle down halfway. Try it again. All right, I moved the throttle all the way down. It still goes out of control with the choke still on, too. That's worrying me a lot. Sounds like the governor is not connected. It seems like while the throttle lever is connected to the throttle bracket, right, it doesn't seem like it's controlling the hot. It doesn't seem like the throttle is controlling the governor. The governor may be loose. Maybe it's missing a linkage or two. I'm glad we found that out because it's not going to be that easy to get this engine going after all. But when you saw that engine go out of control like that, just like super high revs, you've got to shut it off before it blows. I'm surprised it hasn't blown while we were just doing that. But, hey, that's really good news, though, that it starts and runs without stalling on its own, which means that the carburetor is probably clean, clean enough for it to run. You know what I mean? We've got governor issues for sure, throttle linkage and governor issues, because it's just running out of control, super high revs. If you ran it any longer than that, it would have blown. I tell you, these Vanguards are really good engines, so I really have to tread lightly on what I do the next episode, you know. But anyway, today's episode was just teaching you how to blow out your sprinklers, winterize your pipes for the winter. See what happens with this. Tune in on the next episode when I work on this Vanguard V-Twin 23 horsepower. See you guys next time on Mowers and Blowers. If you'd like to donate a dollar or two, paypal.me slash mowersandblowers. Really appreciate all the support. Also, to keep the videos coming every day, support the channel. Bye, everyone.