May
2007
Poly-pipe saddle to ease sprinkler head installation
You certainly don’t need one of these little gadgets to connect your sprinkler heads, but for little bit of extra money this will save you some time. Before I found one of these poly-pipe saddles the procedure for me to add a sprinkler head to my underground line was a little longer.
Without this I would cut the line with my pipe cutter, insert a barbed “T”, connect a a short length of poly-pipe or funny pipe, and then connect that to an adapter threaded into my sprinkler head.
The saddle avoids you having to cut the pipe and insert the T, and depending on your pipe placement might avoid you having to have the short piece of pipe in between. You simply slip this saddle right over your poly pipe, snap it together and then screw the spike down into the pipe through the saddle until it punctures the pipe and lets the water through. With this particular model from Toro, you end up with a 1/2″ female threaded end to connect your sprinkler head, another line or whatever else your hooking up. Nice and easy.