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Rain Bird 52SA Simple Adjust stainless-steel Gear Drive Rotor, Adjustable 40° to 360° Pattern, 25' to 50' Spray Distance. With its intuitive adjustments and impressive coverage uniformity, the Rain Bird 52SA gear drive rotor will water all areas of your lawn evenly; reducing water use and providing greener, healthier grass. The many safeguards and trouble-free features built into our closed-case rotor sprinkler make it the perfect choice for any home landscape. Quick check arc/fast forward feature allows you to check or set arc while sprinkler is running. Easily adjusts at the top with a flat blade screwdriver from 40° to 360° part-circle arc rotation, and reversing full-circle rotation to ensure you're watering only things that grow, not the house, sidewalk, or driveway. For installation convenience arc rotation is factory preset at 180°. Rain Bird's patented industry-leading Rain Curtain™ nozzle technology delivers a uniform, rotating curtain of large water droplets that fall exactly where you want and resist windblown overspray. The nozzle's "micro ramps" also direct a portion of the spray close to the head eliminating dry brown spots common with other rotor brands. The nozzle's superior coverage uniformity helps reduce watering time saving money on water bills. Top-of-the line rugged design with stainless-steel shaft for a longer life. The protected closed-case design makes the 52SA ideal for “creeping” grasses, sandy soil and other harsh surroundings. Water-lubricated, gear-driven design provides long-lasting dependability; true 4" pop-up height clears taller grass. Dual-action, positive-stop wiper seal protects internal mechanisms from debris while assuring positive pop-up and retraction. Heavy-duty rubber encased cap helps protect against damage from edger strikes. O-rings and seals for extra protection in “gritty” water; and a self-adjusting stator that doesn't require replacement when changing nozzles. Rotor comes with a preinstalled 3.0 gallons per minute nozzle designed for a throw distance of 25' to 50 at common residential water pressure of 45-55 psi. Nozzle is easily removable and additional nozzles are available (Model# 4252NZLPK sold separately) to customize watering based on your specific flow rate and system requirements. 3/4" NPT female bottom threaded inlet. Rain Bird "The Intelligent Use of Water"
From the Manufacturer
Rain Bird Corporation is a privately held company founded in 1933 during the agricultural boom in California. We’re recognized as the #1 manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services in the world. With sales offices around the globe; we offer over 4,000 water-saving irrigation products in more than 130 countries. Since the very beginning, Rain Bird has produced and offered the industry’s broadest range of high-quality irrigation products for: farms, golf courses, sports arenas, commercial developments and homes. Over the past 80-years Rain Bird has received more than 450 patents worldwide. Including the first one for irrigation in 1935 on our original impact-drive sprinkler (U.S. Patent #1,997,901) which revolutionized agricultural food-production and ushered in a new era in irrigation worldwide. In 1990 this original impact sprinkler was designated a historic landmark by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Our products cover all aspects of irrigation…timers/controllers, pop-up rotary sprinklers, pop-up spray head sprinklers, sprinkler nozzles, irrigation valves, Drip irrigation, drainage and much more. These products have been chosen and installed worldwide in the largest and most prestigious projects for residential, commercial, agricultural and golf course irrigation. Rain Bird is committed to The Intelligent Use of Water™ extending beyond products to education, training and services for the industry and the community. Our legacy is to design and manufacture only products of the highest value and quality. We’re grateful to have received numerous recognition awards from many of our valued partners. Rain Bird “The Intelligent Use of Water"
Wizzard
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
Visitors insist on driving on my lawn and running over my lawn sprinklers. With this tough sprinkler I can fight back.
Zouheir
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2025
Purchased 3 unit two worked fine last one did not work.unfortunately I'm away, other way i would have returned it and requested a refund.
Mystery person
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024
These are fantastic. Actually the best ones out of all the rain bird heads I’ve purchased and trust me I’ve been through a ton of them!
Guy Vertefeuille
Reviewed in Canada on June 5, 2024
vas tres loin ideal pour les grand terain
bryan
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024
Great coverage great results seeding 18k sqft fescue to bare ground.
Jegan
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2024
I’ve been working on an inground DIY sprinkler project using the Blu-Lock system, and this sprinkler has been a game-changer compared to the ones that came with the kit. I did have to convert the 3/4" line to 1/2", but it was totally worth it—this sprinkler covers a surprisingly large area. I’m really glad I decided to give it a try!
Jet Rep
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2024
I bought 12 of these for our acre ++ lot (not all of it irrigated). Finally an easy to adjust sprinkler and highly accurate to only water what you want. Simply the best purchase I've made in a long time.
C Brandon
Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2019
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.
B. Doll
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2018
Seems cliche... but there's a reason that Rain Bird is what they are. I was spending TONS of money over the years trying to water my large yard with big trees that get in the way of sprinklers. Then last year, I finally decided to try the industrial solution and bought some of these. I was a bit intimidated by having to make risers and such because I'm using hoses and self made risers to get the sprinklers over the bushes and such. It was a cake walk. And the coverage of these things is insane. I went from a 12-station manifold with other brands of sprinklers to 5 stations and these. The time spent watering is the same roughly because I'm still needing to cover the square footage... but it's just simpler and the hardware outlay is a fraction of what I have spent on the rest of the homeowner ideas that I had. Wish i'd have used these initially.One criticism is... if you have not used these before you will probably have a learning curve with the adjustment. And to ME?... it's counter-intuitive for the rotation of the limiting of the travel. But once I convinced myself of how to do it... it's 100%. Also... get the little heads that go with it so you can control the flow. I'm using these for my residential watering and the long reach flow control head that comes installed with it gives WAY too large of a radius of coverage. And swapping out the little heads is super simple. Even I can do it. Thank you Rain Bird.... beautiful product. ALL of my sprinklers have been replaced with these.
Client d'
Reviewed in Canada on August 2, 2017
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NYer
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015
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.
Brad Fairchild
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015
It's too soon to know whether or not I love them, but I've been using them for about a week now and they seem very much superior to the Hunter PGPs they replaced. The installation is a bit different in that you don't set your hard left stop first thing, it's more of a "hard-ish" left stop. Once it's in the body tube, you can adjust the left stop by turning the head of the turret to line up with your desired left stop, and then adjust the right stop using a flat head screwdriver (these will, in fact, rotate a full 360*, but they're "out and back" style as someone else mentioned, not a continuous circle). Biggest thing I've noticed is that the pattern is much more consistent, and it does a better job of watering in the immediate radius of the sprinkler. Longer range than PGPs, and easier to adjust since you dont need a proprietary tool. Hoping they're more durable, I've had to replace multiple PGPs each of the last two years following tough new england winters.
Zdenek M.
Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2015
need good pressure to run 4 at ones.
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