Drip Irrigation Repairs for the Average Joe

okay i shut the water off and i want to show you this now see these two drippers see at the end right there see that little nib that's a coupling coupling is now attached onto the pipe coupling is attached to the pipe there and man look at that it doesn't even look like that one's pushed in all the way i may have to check that now see that see this one that's the i'm gonna fix you see what do you suppose that is it's probably a coupling that went to a piece like this and it snapped off okay and i don't see i don't see the extra links of piping anywhere and uh so i need to fix that now how could i fix that i could take that off glass is now open i could take that off and take one of these see whole plugs see that that's a little plug i could just take that and plug it in these are brand new but i always like to use parts okay whenever i whenever i do a repair i i throw the extra pieces in here and see here here's a couple little pieces that i've got okay see that that's the end of the coupling i could use that coupling couldn't i and then i could cut this off save this little piece of pipe and or actually no i could put that coupling in right and then i could just take this piece and put on that coupling and then there's my repair and i still have this long piece of pipe left i could do that right that's one way i could do it i'm looking at this did you happen to notice what i saw granted i'm i'm i'm going to be rearranging all of this drip irrigation off the main off off of the drippers and all that later on after i get done working in the front yard but but you see look at this piece here there's a coupling right there and here's a dripper well i could use that coupling couldn't i that's what i'm going to do i'm going to cut this back to here and then i'm going to take this little piece off of here and i'm going to put this dripper back there that way i can reuse that coupling no need to no need to spend any money and use one of my brand new ones i'll save those for something else okay and then i'll just cut off this stripper at the end and uh use that one and that's how i'm going to fix this okay so i'll get you uh i'll get you uh situated here i hopefully hopefully you can you can uh pretty much see see what i'm going to do here so i just got my electrical cutters and i'm going to cut this off i'm going to cut this off and i'm going to reuse this so this little piece of pipe i'm not going to need anymore and you don't want to cut that off too close or else you're going to cut the end and so i just use my same cutters at an angle like that i used to i used to take some pliers and pinch these off you could do that too you know let's see i got that off and i'm going to look at that just make sure it's straight and just kind of do that now i can take that and i'm just going to walk it on walk the dog back and forth like that i used to take those and try to push it on and twist it twist it twist it and it's kind of hard to do that when the pipes are really super old okay that's fixed all right now now i've got well that's that's done for that okay so let's let's get you out in the light let's get you on the light okay so now i don't want to like i said i don't want to cut this off too close because see there's the tip of it so now i'm going to cut this at an angle trying to be careful not to cut any of the coupling okay like that i'm just trying to be careful see and then you can kind of rip it off okay you see that the end of it i don't really want to cut that off so i don't want to cut that too close now i can now i can kind of do that and grab it pull it off well there's my coupling okay and now i need to here's my little piece so i'm going to cut this and this little piece of pipe am i going to throw that away no i'm going to probably save it because i'll be able to use it somewhere see i almost cut too much off didn't i but i didn't and then you you just put go in at a 45 degree angle just to the edge of the pipe kaboom see there now there's my there's my piece oh you know what i wasn't supposed to cut that was i i wasn't paying attention okay i'm gonna i'm gonna reuse that piece dabbity dabbit that's okay i'll put it back on okay walk the dog back and forth waggety waggety okay now i can put this on now or i can put it on afterwards i'm going to put it on afterwards because it makes it easier to push this into the pipe because i'll take my i'll take my pliers and hold it and push it in if i have this on there it makes a little bit harder then i have to kind of hold this at an angle hold my mouth just right and push it in sideways that makes sense so i so there's my there's my two little parts and we'll get ready to work on the pipe next