Got a Tractor Sprinkler
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ChuckO
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Is rust a concern being sold cast iron? Those are pretty cool sprinklers, do you have to have a special hose that bends and eventually chokes off the water?
Steve Porter
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I assume your water pressure will influence how well it pulls your garden hose around the yard. I've always wanted to try one of these, but they don't give them away. Cool looking sprinkler though. It follows the path of the garden hose laying on the ground, correct?
JimK
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That thing is a work of art! I'm a bit of a lawn nut and would have loved one of those a year ago. (we moved recently and bought a house w/ an irrigation system) Too much plastic on everything they make these days. I'd been buying new sprinklers almost annually the last several years because they just don't last.
Not really any rust issues. A lot of the moving parts have bronze bushings. I am sure it will get hard water deposits over time. There are a few holes to put some drops of oil in. Use a little marine grease on the gear every now and then. You just lay the hose out in the yard and it follows it. The front wheel is cupped and rides on top of the hose. You have to have enough behind it to make a loop with out kinking the hose.
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Yea it just follows the hose. I don't know how much the water pressure will effect how much it can pull. As long as the arms are spinning it's moving forward. There are two sets of holes on the crank arms. You remove the bolt and move it to the inner hole if you want a lower gear / more water applied. The sprinkler arms are pretty long so it shouldn't stall. The longer they are the more leverage they have to apply to the gears that propel the sprinkler.
I'd think it might dig a couple trenches before it flat out stalls.
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That's kind of why I got it. Mechanical thing are cool and it built like a tank. Just don't drop it. It would probably break the wheels. It weighs 32 lbs.
Their web page says a Lincoln Nebraska original since 1937. A co worker ran across an old one at a sale. He was going to just repair it but the company that makes them offered to refinish and reconditioned it. I belive they only charged him for the parts replaced. But he did drop it off and pick it up, so there was no shipping.
Here is their website.
http://www.nationalwalkingsprinkler.com
Robert T
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I've used a yellow painted Nelson cast iron tractor sprinkler for 18 years and nothing waters better than it does. The new ones I've seen are plastic now but the one I bought in 97 is the good old heavy kind. I use it on spots my automatic sprinkler system is not so good on but there was a time when I watered my whole lawn with it.