Gilmour 996D Pattern Master Impulse Sprinkler
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Gilmour 996D Pattern Master Impulse Sprinkler
Customer Review: Happy Customer
Summary: 4 Stars
Works great - just like the last one I purchased years ago. Good quality and at an affordable price.Customer Review: I like the product very much
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a front yard that is narrow and wide and couldn't fine one sprinkler that would work, but the more sprinklers I used the smaller area they would water. I does do the whole area with no problem, I glad I found it.Customer Review: Ingenious and effective sprinkler
Summary: 5 Stars
Kudos to the engineers who designed this sprinkler for coming up with a creative solution for all of us who have non-circular yards! It offers the long-distance spray of an impulse sprinkler combined with the ability to shape the spray to rectangular and even irregular spaces. I've been using it for several weeks and am very pleased with it.
It doesn't have quite the range of the old-fashioned stick-in-the-ground impulse sprinklers I've used. In my yard it can spray a maximum of about 35 feet, or 70 feet in diameter. Presumably the "XL" model has a stronger spray if you need more coverage.
Others have noted that once you have it adjusted properly, you want to be able to move it out of the way and then put it back exactly where you had it. I agree, and came up with one way of solving the problem. I cut four pieces of 1/2-inch dowel about 8 inches long, and pounded them into the ground at each inside corner of the sprinkler base, leaving them sticking up about an inch above ground. I then spray-painted the ends with bright red paint so I could find them easily. They work perfectly as locating pins so I can place the sprinkler in exactly the same location and orientation every time, and they're low enough so I can mow right over them. They also keep the sprinkler from rotating during use, which I noticed it did very slightly before I installed the pins.
How long will it last? My guess: The flexible plastic ring that you adjust up and down at 16 points to control spray distance will eventually crack or break. I'm thinking sunlight and extreme cold will be its biggest enemies, so I plan to keep it indoors when I'm not using it regularly.
Customer Review: Innovative Sprinkler Design by Gilmour
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this sprinkler now for two months. It's great. It solves the problem of watering a rectangular area with a sprinkler that waters in an arc. It does this by allowing you to adjust the spray distance throught the entire arc. No other pulse sprinkler does this. Takes a bit of playing with to get the pattern right, but once set it distributes the water right where you want it, without overspraying some areas and underwatering others. Very affordable too!Customer Review: Kay
Summary: 4 Stars
I read the reviews and a few people had trouble getting it to work. Because most of the people loved it I decided to order it. Well I got one that wouldn't keep going around. It did great when the ring was pushed all the way to the top but when it went downhill on the ring it just could not go back up the slope. I called Amazon for a return. Boy that was easy, you just go on to the net and print a postage free return label. I received the replacement before they got the one I sent back. It works great. You just have to remember that the instructions still say to push the black ring up or down but it is RED.