How flat does my property have to be? My front yard has some small ups and downs, my backyard has a decent slope to it.
941789
That depends on the degree of incline and the weight of the hose. This sprinkler is well built, heavy duty and lasts for years if you occasionally lubricate it. It is well worth the price!! Occasionally it will get "hung up" on a protruding tree root.
941790
I have some slopes on mine and it does just fine. As someone said....is the length of hose that it has to drag behind. So you might have to adjust the hose length..is all :O) I absolutely LOVE this sprinkler!!!!
941791
Our lawn is flat and not too big. This unit is made for large lawns and only goes one way. I sold mine for a good deal. Way too big for what we needed
941792
My experience with that wonderful sprinkler is that as long as you have sufficient water pressure, it can handle just about anything.
941793
Based on high to moderate water pressure in your hose, it can handle a slight incline.
941794
I have a large yard in the country that is pretty uneven. The sprinkler handles this. The biggest constraint is how much hose it can pull
941795
I have only used it where it is fairly flat, so I really don't know. I will say that I have acquired a 150 ft hose as it occasionally would get hung up on a hose connection, particularly on a curve. It is capable of dragging even more than 150 feet of hose so I suspect it would go up an incline, but one might have to limit the length go the run (reduce the amount of hose it drags). Also I'm sure it would depend in part on the water pressure--I have a well and the water pressure is about 65 lb/sq inch. I love the sprinkler!
941796
The sprinkler I bought like the one shown and if you have good water pressure it will go almost anywhere.Pat Moore
941797
My backyard has a hill with a 30 degree slope across the entire width, and I haven't had any problems with the walking sprinkler. Just make sure you set up the hose track properly to minimize sharp turns. This sprinkler has some nice weight to it and is able to get enough traction to manage ups and downs.
941798
my property is not flat either and it works great. The grade of the land won't have much affect. The sprinkler is quite heavy and has some pretty good teeth on the wheels. What will have more impact is the amount of hose it starts to drag behind after a couple hours.
2099273
Quite well, only a little bit of guiding in the side to side direction needed. I tend to have it ride up on the pavement/curb more than off of it, but I edge very close, right along the edge of the lawn.
1408330
We don't have a hill in our backyard. I would call it a modest slope. I'm guessing it would work well on a flat lawn though, especially if you have room to get a good running start. Some of the smaller kids didn't quite make it to the end of the slide but the kids around ages 11 - 12 had no problem doing so. Hope that helps.
1658476
I don't have extreme curves to edge but my sidewalk is somewhat curved and I have no issues with it.
2203220
I think it depends on the angle, I have a 30 degree slope and it's great. Unless you have a super steep pitch you should be good.
926144
My yard is fairly flat and i'm not sure how you would define bumpy, but the mower seems to handle unevenness pretty well. There are a few depressions in the yard and it handles them fine. I would think you would be o.k. unless the yard was so 'bumpy' it looked like a washboard.i.e. if the 'bumps are spaced at least as far apart as the length between the front and rear wheels you shouldn't have any problems. But again, i don't really have experience with a lot of unevenness.
699416
I don't have any issues as long as the grass isn't wet which will make the rear wheels slip. Be careful of a rollover if the slope gets too steep.
1368794
I just leveled out a spot in the backyard put some sand down to level and placed the tub on it, it worked fine. Although the tub is heavy, the weight Is spread out over several square feet so no problem.
2099274
It's not too bad. There is a little metal guide on the edger that rides along the curb that keeps it in-line. I had some problems with mine the first time I edged my lawn since the sod had overtaken a couple inches of the sidewalk. I just had to go slower and estimate where the curb was. Sometimes i estimated badly and other times it was fine :)
1777974
To be perfectly honest.... the house isn't bad....but the yard area isn't much of anything...the ladder is smack in the middle comingout from the house.... it should of been placed to the left or right, as to give the animal more room in that area...but instead ittakes up a lot of space... To move it around the yard wouldn't be to difficult ... but it would have to be detached, unscrewed fromthe main part of the house... I bought this site unseen ... it was cute when we put it together.....but I would not buy it again...It needs more run room...
1898419
I have some slightly uneven areas in the back yard and it's not a problem cutting unless I let the grass grow a little too thick and have to push it up the incline.
325465
I took out a 10x10 patio and part of a sidewalk. Slow going as it is not industrial, but it should do the job. I still have mine and it is in good shape.
144287
I planted mine on open hillside, so I don't really know about your situation. Sorry I couldn't help you.
262227
Sorry, it was perfect for me, a short little runt (5'3"). Seems like elsewhere on the Internet or on Amazon others had commented about adding (splicing in) another length of pipe to bottom to raise the top section, but I'm not exactly sure how that was done. Need some mechanical engineer type person. The other possibility might be in building up the concrete on the outside and any internal PVC or steel pipe that the two pieces could fit on - but you'd need to reinforce from the outside. Instructions were like to sink 20" of the pole into the ground for stability (I forget the exact number, but it was a ways on down, to give it stability.). So if you made the concrete footing shallower relative to the ground level then you likely will need to have some sort of buttress on the outside, or extra bracing from the ends of the horizontal "T" pole down to the ground (and the appropriate safety "flags" or coloring or flower vines or something so that people don't hurt themselves tripping over the guy wires. Anyway, this is kinda off my head but sorry I don't have a really great solution other then just to research other places. The pole is just about right for me... the clothes line is starting to get a little droopy and catch on my top knot but I just need to tighten them to make it not tangle it up with my head. Otherwise it's working out just fine for me.
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Not bad at all. My front yard was apparently created some 40 years ago by some guy with a dump truck dumping a load of dirt, some other guy indifferently raking the dirt around, years of moles, city work crews and time digging, slumping, and in general just creating a semi-natural mess. Heck, it even included, at one time, for its careful leveling neighbors who invited their drunk friends over to drive on it (a time thankfully passed--Good Neighbors, now). So, my front yard is NOT "even ground". I like how the mower works on it. YMMV, but then I don't know how you want your lawn to look after mowing. Mine will never look like a putting green, but I neither expect or want it to.
1467418
Not completely flat. It has low ridges, I presume for drainage. They are barely visible in the picture on the site.
532860
my yard was on a slope so I went to home depot and found som screw in stakes just to be sure .... it didnt wobble when it was up without the stakes but just to be on the safe side i would reccomend them for anything over a 20 degree slope