September
2006
Gilmour Pattern Master Sprinkler0
This is the Gilmour 996D Pattern Master Pulsating Sprinkler.
Before I installed underground sprinklers in my yard at my current house I used a regular garden hose and a regular pulsating sprinkler. This was fin except that my front and back yard’s are kind of add shaped, and I was having to move the sprinkler quite a bit to get coverage everywhere and not hit the house or outside of my yard.
One day I was at the hardware store and came across this “Pattern Master” sprinkler with an adjustable pattern. This sprinkler is really impressive. Not only can you adjust the pattern of rotation, but you can adjust how far it shoots the water as it goes around!! After using it I would pay twice what I did to buy another.
If you look carefully at the picture, the little red tabs adjust the degree of rotation, much as a normal rotating sprinkler like this would. Now if you look really close above the red tabs at the green piece hooked onto the black mechanism on the sprinkler itself that kind of looks like a gun pointing to the left. The bottom of that “gun” shaped green piece rides on top of a black band that you can manually adjust up and down. There are about 10 places to adjust it, and each adjustment has about 5 settings up and down.
As the sprinkler goes around, the black band pushes the bottom of the “gun” shaped piece up and down, and that in turn obstructs the water more or less to adjust how far the water shoots.
Hopefully I don’t make it sound complicated because it is really easy. If you have an odd-shaped yard this sprinkler is well worth the money it saves in getting a more accurate pattern in watering and the fact that you don’t have to move it so many times to get everywhere in your yard.
