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Garden Irrigation System Installation

Jack Walters from Just Irrigation is on site putting in a RainBird sprinkler system. Bob catches up with him as he is at work in the Elizabethan-style garden. Walters uses a machine called a "pipe-piper" to lay the pipe in the ground, without having to dig trenches. Next, he attaches the fixtures and positions them so that they will be contained within the garden area and not saturate the flowers along the outside of the garden.

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Garden Irrigation System Installation

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" Say hello to Jack Walters from. Just irrigation -- and we're putting in -- girt system right correct OK to wear in the middle of Ruth's garden here and what what happens at this corner. This corner here we ran a pipe that comes and goes right around her little garden right here for the windows in this place and ante here it. The currency and -- I had read over the side over here and in his -- is gonna cover this corner of this well why don't we watch while you're doing absolutely learn how it's done little stainless steel. -- And in the silly to us. Salute them the pipe has been run through here and then you cut it wherever you need to -- one of these that yes. We're. Gonna get away from that. And so that just softens it up a little bit. Now the beauty of -- system is -- use a machine that drags the the feed lines throughout the whole property what's that machine called qualified I don't. A pipe piper and I don't pied piper right yes and -- that goes into the -- six inches under the ground we just kind of design and -- hotel and hopefully we'll inside the house. And and and -- that it really takes a lot of the work away from an installation for irrigation because you're not really digging trenches by hand or with a ditch witch. And then this is flexible this little flexible -- and just kind of meaningless unless you don't have to put any cement diameter needed -- Today and here. And it's so New York. We cut it with the heat. I presume quite coast there. And then we another fitting on this idea. It's sort of school Jordan. We're -- set this for the height that won't happen. The little enrollment packet in real nice and tight so nothing will move. Now will these pop up with. Once the the sod has been put in place and everything water comes through an impression on oppression now pops up and want to experiment when water's done. Now does this function so that you -- you know pick up a whole 360 degree watering area or just a corner like -- well adjustable. Usually says and go from one degree to 365 degrees. And a consultant who has -- its ultimate and it just at the top and had so at a garden like this you could just do it. Ninety degrees and just hit the sodden here and not. Put any water onto the flowers of the -- avoid the moisture there right."

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