Spray Head Mondays - Moody A1N Brass Spray Head Sprinkler
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This Moody A1N lawn spray full circle brass sprinkler dates to the early part of the 20th Century. This sprinkler was made in an adjustable radius and non adjustable style. If you have a sprinkler that looks like this and has a screw in the top, its radius is adjustable. This is the non adjustable variant.
George E Moody company, an early innovator in automatic irrigation, lasted in as a family business from the 1910’s into the 1950’s, and as an independent company until 1979 when it was purchased by LR Nelson.
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Very nice older “Moody” spray head that looks to be in excellent new condition! I have always enjoyed how they spray. To me they were somewhat easier to service when they needed to be. I had seen a lot of original installations from the 1950’s era that used many of them and there still might be some hold outs out there still working! Thanks for sharing this true gem!….
It would be so cool to run into these in the field. Were they installed flush to finish grade or on risers above ground?
I have seen them installed both ways, flush to the ground and up on risers.
Very nice Moody spray head! Looks great and sprays nicely after all these years.
Thanks. I have the feeling it was never installed.
Very nice spray head, I just saw one of these recently for the first time outside a old apartment complex in Pomona, Ca. I couldn't figure it out very good. The one I saw was the quarter circle variety mounted on a galvanized riser of course and likely long dormant. I thought it might have been a quick connect at first. Seeing that patent is really neat and helps me figure these heads out a bit. That "outie" spray nozzle design is very unique and does appear to make quite a even distribution. Very solid, simple yet interesting spray heads. An old medical complex near me in Fullerton had a Moody electro-mechanical timer that was very mid-century looking, had lots of dials over a brushed stainless steel display plate that read "Moody controls L.A. California" in a very era appropriate font. Sadly it was lost when that building was razed.
Love that you called it an outie nozzle. That’s perfect. The design, though early century, does have a Midcentury aesthetic. Those clocks definitely did. The Moody Rainmaster was sold for decades. Golf courses around here had them mounted side-by-side, row-after-row, in maintenance sheds. Not great for seeing what you were activating, but an interesting looking approach for sure.
Great! By the way: this deflection of the water jet horizontally via this brass plate leads to an enormously even distribution of water over the entire throw range. There is a German sprinkler, appropriately named "Siedlerfreund", which I have tested with measuring containers.
Interesting! Settler’s Friend? Like a homesteader or farmer, or did I misunderstand Siedler.
@@antiquesprinklers AI translates settlers. We Germans had those doctors who recommended gardening for factory workers. Small garden plots on the outskirts of the city were named Schrebergärten after Dr. Schreber from Leipzig. Those were the German settlers.