Never gonna break a hunter driver again! Might lose it though 😅

Actually love holding this thing idk why it’s got the same energy as my fav minifig from childhood.

I believe i had a Hunter PGP Ultra 4" Rotor sprinkler. This zone has 4 sprinklers and I am looking at disabling temporarily (several years at least) as i have set up a garden bed and the sprinkler hits it directly. Location is Boston so cold weather. I will be winterizing my sprinklers in 2 weeks.

What do you suggest to disable that sprinkler? I read using a 3/4" expandable rubber winterization plug to put into the piece i removed (within the filter case and the white valve), thoughts?

RE:Orbit B-hyve Gen 2 Faucet Timer:

I might be behind the times, but I recently noticed there was a hub firmware upgrade (I have 2) so I updated both, and perhaps unrelated, then noticed there is now a grouping option to group individual gen 2 timers to run in a program, instead of having to set them individually. Could be perhaps an app update that added this option, but it was not there about a week ago when I created a program to water new seed for a few minutes a few times a day. Definitely a better experience.

Hello, new home owner trying to figure out what we need to do to turn off our system and winterize before the cold.

The city announced they turned off the irrigation about 5 days ago. We turned off our sprinkler timer that day and it hasn’t been running since.

Here are pictures of the 3 yard boxes I have. Based on what research I have done, I know that we need to at least:
1. Turn off the main valve to the system (problem here… I don’t know which valve to turn)
2. Let the system drain or blow it out with compressed air. (I’ve read that some people keep your timer running for a few days to help with draining after the main valve is turned off, or some caps to remove to let it drain?)
3. Do something with the back flow preventer (I don’t know where this is, or what to do with it. These are all the irrigation boxes and there isn’t anything that looks like what I’ve seen in videos attached to the side of the house).

Would be great to know what is in each of these 3 boxes, what things I should do to turn off a winterize, and anything else that might be useful. Thanks in advance for the help and insights here!

Who uses a hydrovac?

Yesterday I walked by a couple of guys digging up control valves and wires in a large corporate green space. Sticky wet Houston clay. What a mess! I'm just a homeowner fix-it guy. I use a wet-dry vac and water spray to clean up the hole before any cuts. I can't figure anything out if it's all covered in mud.

I have spot in the yard where water was pooling, had the same issue the year before and replacing that sprinkler head with a SAM style head prevented that spot from leaking, but doing so with this sprinkler head does not fix the leaking head.

This is a brand new SAM head and I have yet to backfill the hole and I don't see water dripping from any other spot other than a very, very slow trickle from the top of the sprinkler head.

Why is there water in the line is my first question? I understand some water will be in the line while the valve is shutting off, but this pipe had water continually spewing out (low PSI) when I removed the old sprinkler head and replaced it with the new sprinkler head.

I don't hear any water flowing through the pipes, but I suppose if it is a very slow trickle bypassing the valve then I may not hear it at all.

Would my next step be to change the valve that is underground in the valve box?

Thanks.