Fence hanging irrigation system
Maybe I'm crazy, but I've had this idea of creating a retractable wire that attaches one side of the fence to the other and hanging sprinklers from it to water my lawn. It's about a 3/4 acre lot that I have to manually move a sprinkler around and quite frankly I'm tired of it, and too cheap to do an inground system right now. My thought is to have a wire I can pull across the night before with flexible irrigation tubing on carabiners that slide across the wires with sprinkler heads that face down like a greenhouse. Then the next morning after its watered I can simply slide it all back and hang on the fence. I can't seem to find anything like this on the internet, so maybe its just a really dumb idea, but seems practical if I could come up with an easy way to store on the fence and make the retractable portion of it easy to use. The width of the fence is about 100ft so it might be hard to create enough tension to support the weight of the water while making it retractable. Just curious if anyone has seen this before or if it is just a stupid idea out of laziness. submitted by /u/crazykeeper31 [link] [comments]
Maybe I'm crazy, but I've had this idea of creating a retractable wire that attaches one side of the fence to the other and hanging sprinklers from it to water my lawn. It's about a 3/4 acre lot that I have to manually move a sprinkler around and quite frankly I'm tired of it, and too cheap to do an inground system right now.
My thought is to have a wire I can pull across the night before with flexible irrigation tubing on carabiners that slide across the wires with sprinkler heads that face down like a greenhouse. Then the next morning after its watered I can simply slide it all back and hang on the fence.
I can't seem to find anything like this on the internet, so maybe its just a really dumb idea, but seems practical if I could come up with an easy way to store on the fence and make the retractable portion of it easy to use. The width of the fence is about 100ft so it might be hard to create enough tension to support the weight of the water while making it retractable.
Just curious if anyone has seen this before or if it is just a stupid idea out of laziness.
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