Air compressor to blow out sprinklers

[OtterbatHellcat]

Board glitch double post....been seeing it lately.

[ray1970]

OBC, if your waiting to blow out your sprinklers until it’s 5 degrees in your garage then I wouldn’t even bother. It’s probably too late at that point. Lol.

[ray1970]

Blew mine out last Friday.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I was giving the OP an (IMO) good compressor recommendation, and a great hose recommendation for anyone that owns a home compressor.

Most folks garages are not heated, and compressors that work in frigid temps are handy when you NEED compressed air.

[mahabali]

Is everyone doing theirs around this time? I did mine last year early Oct and then it got super nice for a month and my yard died. Thought I might wait another week or so.

[Erni]

Is everyone doing theirs around this time? I did mine last year early Oct and then it got super nice for a month and my yard died. Thought I might wait another week or so.

Ditto.
But I think this weekend is it for me and I will blow out the lines. If anything needs water it will get the hose.

[ray1970]

I used to wait until the end of October or early November to do mine. Three straight years fixing broken stuff in the spring broke me of that habit. Now they get turned off and blown out in early October. If anything needs water after that I just do like Erni and grab the hose or set up a temporary sprinkler on the garden hose.

[bcolorado]

Had a sprinkler system with several short runs that a shop vac blew out just fine.
High volume low pressure.

[ChadAmberg]

In case anyone wants to make a business of it, I have one of those giant compressors for sale still... kind of forgot about it due to other things coming up.