When I landscaped the front and side-yards last year, I pre-plumbed the main line and drip tubing for an underground sprinkler system. I felt ambitious 2 weekends ago and borrowed by grandfather’s backhoe and pulled out the old fence. I hired a dump truck and loaded up all the dirt from the landscaping job to be hauled away. Thereafter, my buddy Jamy and I pulled the pipe and installed the sprinkler system - I have to finish the back yard and hook up plumbing and control box (Monday). Here are some pics:

Digging the holes for the sprinkler heads

Sprinkler head hold and poly line

Assembling the sprinkler heads

Plumbing the valves for the 4 front (and side) zones. The white PVC pipe is always pressurized with water and the black valves are what allow water the to various zones supplied by the green poly lines.

Setting the sprinkler heads in the ground, splicing into the poly line for that zone.

Burying the head. First you scrape back in the dirt and then re-use the sod that you cut away, making sure the the heads are packed in very tight and flush with the level of the ground.

I have actually ran the front and size zones manually while I wait to finish the system. The grass is greener already and starting to repair from the pipe pulling and digging. It should be repaired before winter and will come back very healthy and green next year.

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