{"id":3380,"date":"2013-07-23T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:02:40","slug":"its-been-kind-of-dry-so-will-built-some-easy-sprinklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/07\/23\/its-been-kind-of-dry-so-will-built-some-easy-sprinklers\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been kind of dry so Will built some easy sprinklers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/New-sprinkler.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3381\" alt=\"New-sprinkler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/New-sprinkler.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been using the tripod sprinklers for most of our watering around here for several years. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re not so well built and they only last about 3 years or less. Plastic photo-degrades, light aluminum cracks and breaks. We found ourselves needing three new sprinklers and at $29.99 on sale, that was a big ouch!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Will has an inventor&#8217;s imagination and a pile of scrap metal and pipe. He had three lengths of pipe that were just the right length and a pipe bender given to him by a friend. So he designed a simple stand for a screw-on impact sprinkler. By adding a few fittings and cheap sprinklers from an ag-supply catalog, he soon had a portable, easily-moved sprinkler stand. You can even switch fittings and sprinkler heads around to raise or lower the height! Best of all, he added two little wheels from a junk lawnmower from the dump so we can just tip it up and pull it around into a new position without carrying it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Sprinkler-wheels.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3382\" alt=\"Sprinkler-wheels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Sprinkler-wheels.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty neat, Will!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hansen-seedlings.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3383\" alt=\"Hansen-seedlings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hansen-seedlings.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last fall, he filled half a 55-gallon barrel with compost and planted seeds from some of our Hansen bush cherries. And this spring, they popped up. Now they&#8217;re about 6 inches tall and looking great. We&#8217;ll be transplanting them to their new location in a few weeks. The larger plants he put in on the edge of our newly-cleared pasture are doing great and these will make that planting even larger. We will have &#8220;wild&#8221; Hansen bush cherries! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been using the tripod sprinklers for most of our watering around here for several years. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re not so well built and they only last about 3 years or less. Plastic photo-degrades, light aluminum cracks and breaks. We found ourselves needing three new sprinklers and at $29.99 on sale, that was a big ouch! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}