Dear dr rotors are used to irrigate large lawn areas, they rotate slowly across the lawn applying water with a strong stream of water. Sometimes rotors get ab adjustment, spraying water onto the driveway or street I'm, going to show you how to adjust these rotors so you're not going to waste water by applying water to the hardscape depending on the brand of rotor. It will either have a fixed right, stop edge or a left, stop edge.

The right side or the left side will be the fixed edge of your spray pattern from there you'll either adjust the left or the right side of the rotor Hunter rotors have a fixed right. Stop, while Rainbird and Toro have a fixed left, stop for Hunter rotors. If the fixed edge is at a wine turn the entire body of the rotor, you can either take both hands and turn the body of the rotor or you can use some pliers.

Now the right stop lines up in a straight edge with the property line to adjust the left side of the spray pattern. You will use a hunter rotor tool. Look for the plus and minus signs on the top of the rubber cap turn clockwise to increase the arc counterclockwise to decrease the arc before turning on the water rotate, the top back and forth. To make sure you have the right head. Adjustment for fixed left stock rotors like rain bird and Toro.

If the left edge is out of adjustment, simply make a complete rotation to the left, then grab the turrets and ratchet the left. Stop the left. Changing the left, stop on the rotor. It won't strip the gears to adjust the spray pattern with either right or left fixed stock. Rotors simply use the brand's rotor tool and place it in the hole with a plus or minus sign. Turn clockwise to increase the arc turn counterclockwise to decrease the arc. The Toro t5p rapid set rotor is a unique rotor because it requires no adjustment tools.

All you need are your hands. The rotor does have a fixed left off, but you can change the left, stop simply by ratcheting to the left and then step the right stop by rotating your hands until you select the right arc adjustment rotate the top of the head to check the pattern and you're all set to go with all gear drive rotors. If you need to decrease the distance of throw simply place the rotor tool in the set screw hole directly above the nozzle screw clockwise to decrease the flow, sometimes rotors quit.

Turning when this happens, you are likely to see brown areas in your line, since you cannot repair a rotor that is not turning head down to your irrigation supply, store and buy. A new rotor I want to talk to you about one last thing: a mixture of gear drive, rotors and pop-up sprays. This is going to happen for a couple of reasons, either from a bad installation or from a do-it-yourself add-on to compensate for areas that are not getting enough water. Here's why this is a problem.

Gear drive rotors apply about four tenths of an inch per hour, while standards pop up spray. Nozzles can apply anywhere from 1.5 to more than 2 inches per hour. Put another way. Pop-Up sprays apply three to five times more water than rotors. If the reason for the pop-up sprays is a coverage issue, there is a solution. You can swap out the standard spray nozzles with a rotating spray nozzle that screws right on top of the pop up spray head. A rotating spray nozzle applies about the same amount of water as a gear drive rotor.

However, before switching out standard spray, nozzles for rotating nozzles are recommend the advice of either a local irrigation supply house or an irrigation contractor. We want to thank you for watching our video series and hope they have been helpful, be sure and check out our water conservation website squeeze every drop com. The site contains a lot of great information for conserving water in all parts of your home, so the city of Oklahoma City, I'm robert reaves. Let's squeeze every drop.