Spray Head Mondays - The Thompson 165 Parkway Fan and the Thompson 135 Spike Fan Sprinklers
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- As this is being released on Memorial Say in the United States, we’re doing a double header of sprinklers mom or dad would have set out around the home to water narrow areas or, taking advantage of their low profile, to let the kids run through.
In the 1920’s Walter Van E. Thompson patented the Parkway Spike sprinkler that was essentially a nozzle with hose threads on the backend and a sharp spike on the underside to hold it in place in the ground. These spray head sprinklers were available in hardware stores for decades, and I was pleased to get my hands on examples of both styles of spray they made (they also manufactured both of these with much longer spikes, but what you see here is the standard 4.5” spike).
Thank you so much, as always, for watching!
This is a parkway picture (Parkway Trees, lacounty.gov, Los Angeles County Government, unknown publication date, Picture pw.lacounty.go...)
I remember those! They bring back wonderful memories!!!
Nice little spray heads! This is a first for me seeing these. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
Monday used to be unattractive. Until now! A very nice tradition. Of course, I immediately looked up what the German engineers came up with in the 1920s. There were also nozzles like this on the spike. I was reassured that there were no striking similarities. There were also brackets into which you could clamp simple hose nozzles. In a gardening magazine, a gardener gave the tip that you could clamp the hose sprayer into the back of a garden chair. The editors liked this so much that they added a sketch to the reader's letter. Naturally, I recreated this. Who needs RAINBIRD?
I’m glad you’re getting into the spirit of Spray Head Mondays. The sprays don’t seem to hold people’s interest the way rotating sprinklers do, but I have too many to not justify them to the rest of the Antique Sprinklers household by creating screen time for them…though Lord knows Mrs. Antique Sprinklers is a saint about the collection and its growth.
I love the idea of a chair as a sprinkler base. It’s sturdy and functional. I’m a little surprised no one thought to add a shelf to hold soap. That would make it a 3-purpose device.
Very neat! They seem like they provide a nice gentle spray for your yard. Even gentler than a impact. Be good for watering things that are sensitive to the water droplets. In ag irrigation that's a big deal. There are crops that are very sensitive and can't be irrigated with big guns, so low pressure sprinklers are used. Thank you for sharing. The neighbor I had as a kid had some sprays mounted on a pipe that were similar to these on the side of the house. Maybe Buckner not sure.
Buckner did make those sprays that you could tap into a pipe like that. Skinner came up with that design around the turn of the century. For many years several manufactures made nozzles for them. I’ve seen them in Buckner catalogs well into the 1970’s.
@@antiquesprinklers my neighbors also had a Buckner timer which I seen on eBay awhile ago. It was all analog and very old. I remember the power pack it used too. My neighbor didn't use it, he had to open 3 switches to run the system. 2 for power and 1 for each zone. 3 switches. If I see the timer again I'll send a picture
@NelsonBigGunP200Fan very cool.
I have the up spray and fan spray from Nelson i think. Got them about 25 years ago, possibly 4.99 each? I got 10 of each. Dark green with a long spike. Did my perimeter shrub beds with them with a lot of pipe-to-hose fittings.
That’s great. I bet they worked really well.
So cool! Used to use these when I was a kid…I thought my mom still had them both….cant find any of them. And they don’t sell these anymore. I always try to find obscure Ace Hardware or TruValue to see if they have anything fun in the irrigation department.
You’re the first person on the channel to have experience with these. That’s very cool. I should take some time to go through old hardware stores in California.
Absolutely. Also, small town in IA, NE even parts of MD.
I’m still asking mother if she found hers…she had several of them, one had a very long spike that was almost 12” in length. I hope we can find them, you just don’t see them out in the wild anymore.
Have I run into a fellow Nebraskan (born) and Iowan (raised)? And now a nearly 40-year citizen of the Old Line State?
@@antiquesprinklersno, I’m a mile above sea level in a colorful state. have been through the aforementioned states for work - many, many times. LOL
@uswcboy gotcha.
These aren't very common, I really don't see these turning up at the thrift stores at all. I think its because these are so easily overlooked. Oftentimes these will be spiked in the ground and forgotten about, or placed on a ledge somewhere and hidden in plain sight for years, which in my opinion makes them fun to find. I think I have 4 of these in my collection somewhere.
That makes sense. I’ve also seen an all brass version that might have come from HL Gee, or some other contemporary company. Sort of wish I’d bought it now, even though the hose end sprinklers aren’t really my focus.