WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS LANGUAGE PROBABLY UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY SPRINKLER GUYS. IN FACT I POSTED THIS MAINLY TO DEMONSTRATE MY NEW METHOD TO CO-WORKERS. YOU’RE WELCOME TO READ ON, BE ADVISED IT MAY BORE YOU TO TEARS.<\/p>\n
First buid your manifold. Make sure tees sit outside the box. I cut 1″x12″ sc80 nips in half, which works great. Glue in laterals long enough to extend a few inches outside the box. Flip your box upside down, set the manifold centered, then mark your cuts. Sawzall your notches just deep enough so that a valve’s lower half\u00a0can be spun out off the threads in the future if needed, and not hit the mole guard. Score the tops of the notches with a razorblade and the notches easily break out.<\/p>\n
Next I take a couple of wires and tighten the manifold snug up into the notches. It’s always a good idea to hold on to your multi-strand remnants. They come in handy for many things, like tying up loose tubing. Now you can see the gap under the valves I was talking about- where you have room to spin out the bottom of the valve later without digging up the box.<\/p>\n
Now\u00a0tape the mole guard on. If it’s wet out you could use wires too. Note the handy little holes in the guard, good place to fasten wire. I don’t know why this pic came out so dark. Lame.<\/p>\n
Now we’re ready to drop it in the hole. Thanks for digging that out for me, Miguel! Looks like I need to cut back those laterals again a little bit, but all in all I’ve saved a buttload of time this way. Next I insert the multi conductor through the side hole, and use leftover plastic from funny pipe rolls or fittings bags to stuff into those gaps to keep a clean box. When the mainline and laterals are connected and we’ve backfilled, I just snip those support wires and they pull right out.<\/p>\n
I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of doing it this way earlier. No more messin’ around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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