Rain Bird52SA Simple Adjust Stainless-Steel Gear Drive Rotor, Adjustable 40° - 360° Pattern, 25' - 50' Spray Distance

OK so i had to replace my MAXI-PAW IMPACT ROTOR POP UP SPRINKLERS .. Fact they are easy as eating pie to install. But when running get stuck in one place because they are bad at handling water pressure in the lines. Now Rain bird comes out with this new 52SA Model and as i slowly change over my system to this model .. My St Augustine Grass is smiling again liking the water blanket. You must have a 3/4 threaded elbow to install the 52SA. Seems well built then my other rainbirds of the past only time will tell that story .Thank you Amazon team for the fast shipping. Thank you Rain Bird team. Happy Healthy Grass and Trees .

This RainBird unit is more robust than the Torro also easier to adjust.

This is an example of you get what you pay for. I have some that are 10 years old and whenever I go against better judgment and buy a different cheap plastic head, I’m replacing it some time later with one of these so I can forget about it and know it’s working.

I use these to replace my Toro rotating heads as the Toros break (and they do, quite often).I noticed some poor reviews, so I wanted to wait a few months before reviewing this product myself.Installation took all of 3 minutes: Dig around the base, unscrew the old Toro sprinkler, clear out debris, screw in new Rain Bird.After several months and ~50 hours of use we have nothing but praise for this product. It's very configurable from nearly zero to 270 degrees of rotation. IT WILL NOT do 360 DEGREES. It's been run over many times by our idiot mowing service (me) and doesn't show any signs of damage.All configuration once it's initially set is done with a small flathead through the top of the unit. Very simple, very nice, and well worth the price.

This was easy to install and very easy to adjust the arc and distance.

Extremely impressed by the ease of installation and functionality.My property is 60 x 100 and essentially flat. By most measures, its not a large lot. I live in Long Island, on the South Shore. I am not a gardener, but an attorney who enjoys Sunday projects with my kids. I did not formally measure the water pressure / output from my outdoor spigot, but I have never had reason to complain in the 15+ years that I have owned the home. We had an above ground pool that I filled each season, and countless water fights, but never any complaints about water pressure. I did not know what to expect when installing a sprinkler system, and decided to go above ground this year.Attempt #1: Gilmour Turbine Rotor Sprinklers With Metal Spike Bases 200MMS.With one attached, the water was discharged 15 feet *maximum*. With two or three attached to each other, the distance dropped to 6 feet *maximum*. I placed the sprinklers at the corners of my house, hoping to free up the center of the lawn for children's play, etc. but no way those sprinklers could reach the center of my lawn. The sprinklers worked, but not well. Returned for refund. Thanks Amazon!Attempt #2: 6,500-sq ft Impulse Spike Lawn Sprinklers for $39 total from a local store. Improvement in coverage was dramatic. With fewer sprinklers installed, I covered more of my lawn, and the cost per sprinkler was lower. However, after one week, the impulse sprinklers stopped moving reliably. Very disappointing.Attempt #3: Bought these Rainbird 52SA heads and installed them on the spikes from the impulse sprinklers. Exact same sprinkler configuration, and these are perfect. If I had bought these when I started, I would have saved lots of time, effort and prevented an equal amount of frustration. A bonus is that if I decide to install my system below ground, I can still use these sprinkler heads.[UPDATE 1]4 years later and still awesome. At the end of each summer, I detach them and store them in the garage. No special maintenance. They just work perfectly.

Over the years I have seen that the stainless steel body sprinklers are far less prone to sticking in the up position after a few years of use.The only downside with these sprinklers is that they do not come with the variety of nozzles that some of the plastic body units come with. They ship with a 3.0 gallon per minute nozzle while on mine I use anywhere from a 1 gpm to a 2.5 gpm. That means you have to buy a plastic nozzle 'tree' which has about 10 different sizes specifically for the 52AS sprinkler head, which is the same as the 5200 Pro series, but the 5200 is a plastic body.The best thing about installation of these Rainbird sprinklers is the easy positioning of the spray area from a few degrees to 360 degrees.Rainbird says not to use pipe dope on the fittings, but Teflon tape is crap to use. Rectorseal make a Teflon enriched paste formulated specially for plastic fittings. The name is 'T PLUS 2' and comes in a 1&3/4 oz. tube.

Wondered why this season a large patch of grass wasn't getting watered (sprinklers run in the wee hours of the morning). Checked this stainless steel beauty and found the gears are stripped. Won't buy again.

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I purchased this, and many others like it for an experiment to use in cottage wild fire protection. This one has been the best out of all my trials so far. Works great on lower pressure giving me a 360' spray, and can this this shoot far when I crank up the water pressure. I suspected that I would need several sprayers to cover a standard cottage but with just this one unit covers my testing cabin keeping everything wet. I'm thinking next spring buying more of these for my house and replaceing the inground sprinklers I already have. This works far better than the ones I have already for my lawn and shrubs.

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need good pressure to run 4 at ones.