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Originally Posted by freebeard
I have a RainBird on the roof, running off a 3/4" hose. But I have a bigger RainBird that I want to put on an unused utility pole. I'm trying to organize an anarchist fire department. I have a 500gallon tank, with a sump irrigation pump I could cover two neighbors in each direction. The Lake Drive Volunteer Fire Department because the lane floods in rain.
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My trip to Ace was intended to pick up 3/4" male hose to 1/2" female sprinkler head adaptor since I have a ton of those laying around now (replaced with better heads). The adapters were crazy expensive, so I bought a 2 pack of impact sprinklers with an 80' diameter reach. Put a screw in the gable end of the roof and hung 1 sprinkler there (couple of zip ties), and used a tie-down strap to secure the other one to a vent on my roof. I've got all but a 2' strip of roof covered with that, and most of the surrounding yard (and a bit of the neighbors).
I was thinking, if I could accomplish that in about an hour, I could purpose build a sprinkler head at 4 locations on the roof in a few hours and $40 of materials. Don't know why all houses don't have this built in. If I get an evac call, I turn on 2 hose bibs and leave knowing the only way the place catches fire is for the forest across the street to burn too hot.
Maybe I'll set something more permanent up and run it 4th of July also...
Finally, it would be a simple matter to connect all this to my sprinkler valves/controller. From an app I could turn it all on. Program Google so that when a smoke detector goes off located on the roof, sprinklers come on automatically.
More detailed video of redneck fire suppression:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0D...ew?usp=sharing