Orbit Port-A-Rain Above-Ground Portable Sprinkler System - 58871

Worked well to water our yard. Easy to move and adjust the flow.

Works and good for the price but it is not heavy duty. Great for a small area and requires a lot of water pressure to make a circle about 8-10ft. I bought two hoping to string five sprinklers together and get a large area but three is the max.

Wanted it to water a 4' X 8' raised garden bed & minimize my water loss. Soaker hoses & other sprinklers put water more than 12-18 inches in the sky, and the wind blew away half of it. After self-experimenting (not in the instructions if there were any), I learned that turning the nozzle head counterclockwise widens the water span from a single stream (setting zero) to a 360-degree fan! Just what I wanted! Turning down the pressure at the spigot/valve did the trick! 90% of the water fell inside the bed, not outside the bed. Perfect for small jobs!

The heads themselves are very good. Rotational from 0 to almost 360 degrees. Droplet spray as opposed to mist spray. No issues here. Spray heads are very good. Now to the base... (1) There is no valve to control the amount of water coming up into each sprinkler head. Water flow is always "full on" for all 3 heads. Bad news if you have a slope (higher head will spray less, lower head spays VERY far) or if you have a narrow spot and a wide spot to water at the same time. (2) No ratational support for the heads. We're not talking here about the 0-360 arc/pattern of the spray head, we're talking about that arc's position relative to the base. Say you need a 90 degree spray arc/pattern. OK, that arc is ALWAYS going to start at the hose port and move leftward. Yes, you can rotate the entire base. But the arc/pattern forces you to have your input and output hoses forming an S shape on the ground, shortening the length you can stretch our these sprinklers. Were there rotational support in the base, you could move the arc/pattern of water to the side and get a much longer distances between your bases. We tried some silly-looking "flower" sprinkler heads from Melnor along the same premise as these. Slightly cheaper (not much) but they have all of the benefits of these Port-o-Rain and none of the shortcomings I mentioned above. The water flow control valve is especially important because we can string 2 sets together and ensure each sprinkler is not over- or under-watering. (2 sets is the max on our 22psi line, but that gives us 60 feet of spacing, 80 feet of spray coverage.)

I purchased two of these hoping to cover a lot of sq ft for my large yard. (In two zones) My first impressions - extremely cheap plastic and light weight. Once I got the first zone hooked up, I turned them on and I can tell you these things are worthless. Maybe it covers 150-300sq ft? If you only run 2 instead of 3 - you might get 350-450 sq ft? I have a cheap Orbit oscillating sprinkler that I bought from Menards and it covers 2000+ sq ft (on same pressure / hose) Extremely disappointed - wouldn’t waste my time or money. We purchased the Melnor 95548-IN Multi-Adjustable Above Ground Sprinkler System Kit for our plants and these things work 100x better with more control and coverage. (Unfortunately, they are not portable enough for our large yard)

These work perfect for me to soak my lawn around the slab. There is a noticeable (but not horrible) difference in the spray range when hooked to a spigot close to the main water supply as opposed to the spigot on the opposite side of the house. Also, the base/structure of the sprinklers are very lightweight and I have to use a stake to make it lay flat. Overall a good product for my needs.

I guess you get what you pay for with lawn sprinklers. The sprinklers are very lightweight and made of a very cheap plastic, so it's easy for them to tilt and not sit flat. The first sprinkler takes the bulk of the water pressure, leaving the remaining 2 with a spray radius of only about 3'. Plus, the hoses are too short. This product should come with 15' hoses, not 12'. The only reason I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 is because when using only one of the sprinkler heads, it's pretty effective when you want to water a small 15'x15' area.

Tried many different type of lawn sprinkers, ( Oscillating Sprinkler, Pulsator Sprinkler, Gear Drive Sprinkler, Zinc Twin Circle Spray sprinklers), and did not get the results for using those sprinklers to green up the lawn and water good without wasting many hundreds of gallons of water running most of the day. Used these sprinklers and the lawn perked up with just 3 days of around 1hour of watering each section ( moving the sprinklers 3 to 4 times around the whole lawn. And the great part is the heads are adjustable for the spray pattern and area to cover. These work the best for even watering by using the center double connecting sprinkler the main hose to and branch the other 2 to the left and right. If you run them in a straight line configuration they do not water evenly because the water pressure is not spread evenly and is weakest at the end sprinkler.

This spray system is cheap and does not spray evenly. Impossible to adjust correctly. This is money down the drain.

Pretty solid product. The heads are adjustable from the point of being off, which increases the pressure and distance covered to the heads which are on, to a full 360 degrees. So, you could have them all at 180 degrees or two at 180 degrees and one at 360, etc. The spread is dictated by turning the nozzle on top of the sprinkler from completely off (0 degrees) to fully on (360 degrees). Anywhere you stop in the middle of those two settings gives you the degrees of coverage. I believe the ideal application is for someone who has a small area to water or someone who is currently using one or two sprinkler heads that they are moving multiple times during a watering session. My watering requirement were a mix of the two. I was previously using one sprinkler on a timer and moving it multiple times during each watering session, usually 7-8 moves. With the Orbit sprinkler, I am now able to water the same area using the same tactic in 3 moves which saves time and effort.

I live in a townhouse complex, in an end unit, with an L-shaped yard. I placed the T unit at the corner of the L and the other 2 units across the back and along the side - they work great. These are not high-end units, the female connectors on the units do not turn, you have to turn the whole unit to attach it to the male end of the hose, but other than that, they work just fine. I have ordered another set to use in my front yard. I should mention these do not throw out a high wide spray, using a town water system, with decent pressure, these units cover an 8-foot area, ie a 4-foot radius around each unit with a spray-height of about 4 feet. This is great for a townhouse complex where the yards tend to be narrow. I have always had problems with other watering systems sending spray over the fence into my neighbours' yards.

Quality is not great and lacking certain features, like you cannot rotate the sprinkler in a certain location,

The force isn’t that great. Only the first section receives good force.it’s a hassle but I have found a way to adjust water pressure to get even flow.