I would buy an actual sprinkler manifold and connect it to a irrigation controller but that’s just me. One thing I see you don’t have is a backflow preventer. Otherwise good job.
So I used drain spade and a hand edger. I’m only 6-8 inches deep. (If you winterize you system good enough the depth shouldn’t be a big deal) But I’d go a little half way of the depth of the drain Spade and just open it up like a V shaped trench. Then I’d use the hand edger to get deeper into the trench open it a little more further in the ground. It helped my ground was very saturated as well from weeks of watering and trying to grow grass. That’s why I decided to do in ground system was I was tired of moving sprinkler heads. Once I set the sprinkler heads and tested the coverage with them in the ground I’d fill it in. Then I’d put the pipe in the trench and using a home made tool, which was a 4’- long 3/4 gas pipe with a T and a couple of small nipples in each end of the T, I’d drive the irrigation line furmwr in the trench. Then using my heal and ball of my foot I was able to close the trench like you would close a gash on your body. It was a lot of work I’m not gonna lie… The only spots I had to ise some fill dirt was where I dug out for the heads and when I had connectors T’s or elbows or self drains. Id use some rocks for those so they would drain and not get clogged with mud/ dirt.
I can make a video of how i trenched it by hand as well if you’d like. I have a line I want to burry that I ran for my wife’s gazebo to water the flowers around it. It would be Saturday or Sunday. But trust me if your ground is dry this will be a horrible way to do the trenching, it was a tough it being wet but was manageable.
@@tomacton529 yeah I bet. The trenching and descrutction is the main thing keeping me away from isntalling in-ground but your buried lines looked like you had minimized the damage.
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I would buy an actual sprinkler manifold and connect it to a irrigation controller but that’s just me. One thing I see you don’t have is a backflow preventer. Otherwise good job.
thanks for sharing. My question is how did you bury lines with so little digging/yard damage?
So I used drain spade and a hand edger. I’m only 6-8 inches deep. (If you winterize you system good enough the depth shouldn’t be a big deal) But I’d go a little half way of the depth of the drain Spade and just open it up like a V shaped trench. Then I’d use the hand edger to get deeper into the trench open it a little more further in the ground. It helped my ground was very saturated as well from weeks of watering and trying to grow grass. That’s why I decided to do in ground system was I was tired of moving sprinkler heads. Once I set the sprinkler heads and tested the coverage with them in the ground I’d fill it in. Then I’d put the pipe in the trench and using a home made tool, which was a 4’- long 3/4 gas pipe with a T and a couple of small nipples in each end of the T, I’d drive the irrigation line furmwr in the trench. Then using my heal and ball of my foot I was able to close the trench like you would close a gash on your body. It was a lot of work I’m not gonna lie… The only spots I had to ise some fill dirt was where I dug out for the heads and when I had connectors T’s or elbows or self drains. Id use some rocks for those so they would drain and not get clogged with mud/ dirt.
I can make a video of how i trenched it by hand as well if you’d like. I have a line I want to burry that I ran for my wife’s gazebo to water the flowers around it. It would be Saturday or Sunday. But trust me if your ground is dry this will be a horrible way to do the trenching, it was a tough it being wet but was manageable.
@@tomacton529 yeah I bet. The trenching and descrutction is the main thing keeping me away from isntalling in-ground but your buried lines looked like you had minimized the damage.