Job from last summer

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Anybody know what this is?

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For the love of god... WHY?!?

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2” slip fix for the win !

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Do I use regular pipe dope here for this threaded connection?

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Tips for digging out riser?

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Roast me (first timer)

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A few days ago I set up this valve box and now the ball valve is leaking :( Flame me.

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Customer not home, Water off, Valve box by the blow-out, outdoor controller

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Code enforcement Stop Work Order. My first ever in 20 plus years.

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Poor Thing, I Wonder How it Died

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Rainbird

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Whoopsie

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Here is a training wall I built today. The wall of confusion

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When the homeowner goes to test the zone so you can see where the water is coming from...

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Can someone tell me what I’m looking at here?

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What are the reasons to bury or not to bury rocks back in the trench?

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Thanks guys for all the recommendations, saved a ton of money and did everything myself.

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Check out this gem

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How do we feel about slip fixes?

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Valves

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I turned around for one second..... 😂 Customers dog hops right in the back.

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Current collection: Abfo, Buckner, Campbell, Champion, Kading, Keiner, Lawnlife, LR Nelson, Moody, Nelson, Orbit, Pasadena, Rain Bird, Rain Jet, Rain-O-Mat, Rain Spray, RainTrol, Ross, Royal Coach, Safe-T-Lawn, Sears, Skinner, Thompson, Toro, Turf Irrigation, Weathermatic, WeatherTec, WrightRain

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My cleanest valve install

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Gotta love new fence installs

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What’s the best way to replace this tee? Will a compression tee span the gap if I cut it out?

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I hope whoever invented slip fixes won a Nobel prize, absolute lifesaver

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Do I need to use primer for this end cap?

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Timer I found during blow outs

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When they put the master valve 5’ in the ground and quad stack the boxes

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I could never work in a cubicle

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When you're blowing out a system for the winter and you see a rotary head get voluntoled into the SpaceX astronaut program

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“I dont think I can afford In ground this year Ill do it next” - I said to myself

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Tree root from hell

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Mainline repair

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Thought I had all of the water out but some dribbled out of the end of the tee after I put it together. Is that going to make the joint fail?

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“I know a guy who can do it cheaper”

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Lost a Good Friend This Morning

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I don't get paid enough for this shit

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Head to Head Coverage

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My Home Irrigation System

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*nah man just put all 6 valves in one box, we won’t be the ones servicing it anyways. Thanks lol

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Glad I was digging carefully

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Another landscaper system

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What’s y’all’s set up for organizing material?

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Shout out to those of us who specialize in water management through different seasons!

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Can’t wait for someone to find these in the future 😂

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I recommend not doing this to your fellow irr techs.

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I Don't Want to Talk About It

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Hope nothing breaks...

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If you're a contractor please for the love of God have common sense

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Funny story

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I'm a sprinkler tech, I work on sprinklers for a living. I don't have a system at my house, I use a moving lawn sprinkler because it's cool.

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This was a rough one but thankfully not much roots past the first 10”

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When you forget to bring a plug

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Valve repair

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Wish me Godspeed my brothers. I shall be needing it

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Hot water heater for sprinklers?!??

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Honestly who really loves repair work ❤️

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Home Depot

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New construction home with a gas line shallower than we put our laterals. Be safe out there!

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No comments..

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What are these and can I twist them open?

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On today’s episode of Valve box surprise...

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Saw this in a shopping mall

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Future Irrigator

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We found this inside a broken Rainbird 1800. Nearly soiled myself.

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HOA lady tired of homeowners getting in the subdivision’s controller

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Another landscaper installed system I picked up

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Love my job.

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Professional grade

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Look how they massacred my boy

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We like to decorate certain clocks with trinkets we find on the property

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Homeowners come up with best solutions

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Seems a little overkill

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Mani - build, roast me.

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Least favorite valves?

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This little guy isn’t glamorous by any means but it has saved me so much effort on so many jobs.

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True piece of history. Rain Bird No. 60 Impact Sprinkler made in LaFetra’s barn before Rain Bird moved into its first factory.

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Necessity is the mother of invention

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Does anyone else find building valve boxes extremely satisfying?

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A story about why I have messy primer and I’m okay with it

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Biggest one I’ve seen.

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Whoever is responsible for this, dm me your address.

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I Hate Commercial Properties

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High water pressure cracked schedule 80 fitting. What could I do differently here?

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Hope they’re proud!

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I installed this timer when I was a new tech, I had to work with this timer again today... I just really wish I had the time to do this now lol

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All the people here do is bitch and complain. I honestly would too if I had to do service calls all day

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What yall know about them yellow cutters 💪 got that og irrigation drip 💅

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so i was doing work for a client that gets their water from the river and a valve was stuck open, this is what i found..

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this is why landscapers should not be doing irrigation...

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Is this a good price? Never had irrigation installed before.

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Thanks to your help, I present: Valve box 1

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I hate tree roots!!

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Won’t be as tidy but finally decided to get some pack out drawers to organize my parts!

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Working on rental properties when the landlord doesn’t care and just wants to save money is the worst.

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So I guess the ants own this node

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5 zones and Hunter Hydrawise Wi-Fi Controller. $3500 installed with parts. Fair deal?

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Stop Torching Your Pipe

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If you do this I wanna fight you.

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Why?

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Is there supposed to be water this high in my irrigation system?

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Irrigation professionals, do you currently create as-builts/maps for the systems you install/maintain? If so, do you map out each head or just the general zone locations? Trying to get some feedback for the irrigation mapping software that I recently built.

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Just got my brand new trencher. Been using a 2002 ditch witch 1020 since it was brand new. What trencher/vibratory plow do y’all use?

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Dinosaur dingo can still rip lines through the Carolina clay

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??????

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Whelp, I hope that never breaks.

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I don't see much flood irrigation on this sub, but here's my farm

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Is this a good price?

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Critique my latest manifold

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When your friends brother knows plumbing

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Does anyone else just love new shiny brass?

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where can I find this rain bird hat to buy?

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Do you see it?

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How do I blow this out?

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Crimp Clamps

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My first manifold. How shit is it? (I learned everything I know from this sub)

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Coming home after work be like...

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Customer tried to fix the sprinkler themselves.... Look at their tools?!?!

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Thank you to everyone who does not believe in using primer.

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This has to be one of if not the worst I've ever seen

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12 valve + manifold replacement complete

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When you let Johnny back on the trencher after lunch.

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Backflow installs

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DUCT TAPE DOES NOT MAKE A GOOD COUPLING🙅‍♂️

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Another old weathermatic controller

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One of my techs sent me this photo today

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I build all my manifolds with dura/spears manifold fittings. Think they look the nicest and if anything ever breaks or fails (which I've never experienced) repairs are a dream.

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Look at this cluster I found in the wild. On one of those “ your here for a backflow test but while your here” kind of jobs.

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We out here boys 7 zone here we go

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My blowout setup

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Wtfff

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What we find in valve boxes. This is my favorite so far.

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Ughhhh

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Whatcha think

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There’s 4 irrigation issues in this photo but you can only see 3.

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What do you call this fitting?

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Turning on My System

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Leaking Gate valve 2 feet deep. How fun!

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My favorite part of the job

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We doing OLD timers now?

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New controller day. Whats Your go to residental controller? Basic and best option?

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Customer States Half of One Zone Not Working

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When you want your pavers well lubricated.

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Haven't seen one of these for a while.

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What the heck is going on?

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