How to Set Up and Adjust Rotary Sprinklers

hey dirt farmer J here from dirtfarmer j.com we love using rainbirds rotary sprinklers but for the first time installer they can be a little bit confusing but we're going to clear that all up for you hey stay [Music] tuned hey dir farmer J here from dirtfarmer j.com we've used Rainbird products for a long time around here been very pleased with them and recently they've introduced the stainless steel rotary sprinkler uh for just a mod price increase and we've started using these around here now all of these type of sprinklers from them do take a little bit of adjustment and setup and that's all done at the top after it's installed with a little bit of a setup on What's called the left Edge let me walk you through the three adjustments that need to be made and they're pretty simple once you get the Cadence you're going to love it and love the results the first thing we're going to do is set the left Edge where the sprinkler Arc Begins the second thing we're going to do is set the sprinkler Arc rotation distance from 40° to up to 360 and the last thing we're going to show you is how to set the distance of throw uh you can reduce these up to 25% of shortness we'll show you how to do that let's get to work okay there are three uh adjustments we're going to discuss plus I'll throw in a bonus here in a moment all this is done right at the uh um right on the top here or on the body so the first thing we're going to do is set What's called the left Edge where this sprinkler is going to be starting from and the only way to do that uh dependably for me is to go ahead and start the sprinkler have this rise out and you'll see right here this is what's called a 4 in meaning has a 4in projection when it rises out of the body or the canister here so that gives you some kind of clearance idea of how high the grass can be before it starts to collide with a water stream so this going to rise 4 in and you're going to let it run it's going to run around it's going to swing and it's going to come back well that left Edge is not where you need it it's either watering things you don't want it to or it's not reaching where you want it to you simply take a pair of water pump pliers and by the way all these Graphics are on the body here tell you how to do this you're going to grab this and rotate the whole body back and forth until that left Edge is where you need it that's the first step you do and and that now you're ready to go now the second thing is to adjust the amount of Arc how far around it comes so let's suppose it's in the corner of a yard that's got a 90° angle you've got a formal setting so it's down in the corner and you want to swing 90° this is where you're going to adjust it you'll see right here plus and minus if I take and you all you need is a little straight bladed screwdriver I'm going to insert it in here through the The Shield and I'm going to fill and engage the slot right there it just grabbed if I rotate the direction of where it says uh plus that is clockwise the arc's going to get bigger all the way up to 360 if I rotate it the left it gets smaller and I felt it bottom out right there that means the ark is 40° uh and goes up to 180 now something that's important to note if you've set it at 360 so let's suppose it's out here in the middle of the yard watering the whole thing when it comes around it's going to hit the zero the left Edge uh that wherever that happens to be out in the middle of a yard it's going to rotate around until it hits that edge and then it's going to come back so it'll keep stopping back at that edge it doesn't override it and just sit there and go around in a circle so that's good to know that helps you a little bit with the water coverage and how it's being done all right the next adjustment I once you've got this in here is indicated right on the top here you'll see an embossed Arrow here that tells you this is where the water exits and right there it's telling you what uh the emitter that's in it 3.0 3 gallon and you can buy and these come along with some of them where there's a full strip of the inserts to change up the shape the amount of Str uh shatter of the water uh the arc projection height distance all that this is this is kind of like a standard 3 Gall uh 3.0 uh per minute these are gpms 3 gallons per minute not per hour that is coming out the outlet but it may be projecting tooo far or too little again screwdriver goes right down through there I've rotated I could feel it and gauge and I can either tighten it down to shatter it a little bit or shorten it or to make it spray more or I can back it up and make it so it's doing more of a solid stream now rberg has what they call Rain curtain technology which then uh and you can see that right there on the label uh what it does is it creates a decay of the water stream so you get a uh a curtain of water going along the underside of the Ark of water so those are the three main and primarily the only ones you're going to need to adjust uh to take care and to maintain these should you ever have a problem you can leave the body in uh in the ground uh unless you're having to clean out um the filter at the bottom but if everything's good that way you can literally un uh unscrew this right here while it's in the lawn uh or in the irrigation area pull out this component discard the old one or put in a new one put it back and you can see here's the gear right here that's driving everything the rotation and just put it back in there and reset your left Edge re-calibrate it and you are ready to go there's great information right on the B the sprinkler including a great QR code that allows you just go there for more information but I think you're going to need everything you need to know we've just told you another great product that Rainbird produces is the rotary nozzle check out this video where we review it it's great for flower beds we know you're going to enjoy it take a look there and while you're at it check out this other video that we produced that's in our catalog that YouTube is recommending for you we think you're going to love it and we do too until the next time this is Der farmer J from der farmer j.com [Music]