This has to be one of the best impulse sprinklers on the market. It's as far as I know the only sprinkler that allows you to adjust the distances back and forth as it circles around allowing you to avoid hitting areas that you don't want to get wet, like your sidewalk, the car in the driveway etc..

I like the fact you can adjust the spray distance. Very good for odd shaped yards

We bought ours 2 years ago, summer 2022, and once you figured out, it is the most efficient sprinkler with low water pressure.We store the sprinkler indoor during the winter. A good purchase and worth the money.

I bought my first one last summer and this year bought two more. I am on a well with about 40psi and it works awesome for the amount of coverage it gets. I like how you can change the distance by popping the red tabs up or down changing the angle of the spray making it so customizable. I used the first one I bought all last summer and so far this summer, leaving it out all of the time and so far it's held strong.

We tried several sprinklers but none comes close to this one. This allows you total customization which is perfect for any space, regardless of shape. We are very pleased with this sprinkler this far.

This sprinkler does not stay the way you adjust it. It moves the plastic pieces around and moves the way you adjusted it. Within 5 minutes I was only watering my neighbors driveway.Seller was difficult to work with and would not pay for the return shipping.Edit** they ended up refunded us.

I don’t normally take the time to write reviews unless I feel SUPER compelled by a product to do so. I’ve only been using this sprinkler for a few days, so I can’t really rate it’s durability, but WOW. It works exactly how it explains in the Gilmour How To video on YouTube (recommend you watch if purchasing)! My yard has a weird shape - it is square for the most part, so you think it’d be easy to water with any old sprinkler, but there are small parts I’m trying to keep alive that reach just sliiightly down the sides of my house, and it’s difficult to water these areas without soaking my entire deck (above and under) each time I water with other sprinkler types. Anyways, it has been an extremely hot, dry summer, and after going through god knows how many sprinklers and how many diff set ups to reach ALL areas of my lawn (and not soak my entire deck at the same time), I think I’ve FINALLY found the one!! Right now I have it sitting in the middle of my “square” lawn on the 360 setting, but it adjusts beautifully when going around my deck, so as not to soak unwanted areas. Worth it!

Can’t figure out why anyone would want buy any other sprinkler. Can make any custom pattern imaginable, has a huge radius and a great price. If I leave it in the sun in breaks after about 2 years - but that’s fine. It’s not expensive and I get a new one. worth every penny.

Das Teil ist toll und sehr flexibel einsetzbar. Der Regner sprüht nicht nur den üblichen Kreis, sondern kann durch zwei Stopper auf einen Beregnungssektor eingestellt werden. Außerdem kann die Wurfreichweite flexibel auf die örtlichen Verhältnisse eingestellt werden.

I bought 2 of the Gilmour 196SPB Pattern Master Impulse Sprinkler on Polymer Sled Base about 2 years ago because I have very irregularly shaped lawn areas and no other sprinklers were able to be fine tuned to vary the distance of water thrown around these various areas. That meant I was wasting lots of water with the other types of units I tried. I also tried linking three small sprinklers up in a row so that I could set each one to throw the water different distances and angles, but by the time the water got to the 2nd and third units, there was limited water pressure left. So I saw this Gilmour Pattern Master, and thought I would try a couple of them. It's been two years of using them, and they have been terrific, just what I was looking for. Overall, excellent units.Setting the sweep. As other reviewers have said, setting them up takes a few minutes to get used to how much of a 360 degree angle sweep you need, but after a minute or so of experimenting, and getting yourself wet while you watch it work up close and adjust it while it is working, you can fine tune the sweep it throws to within a foot - very precise. I had something approximating an "L" shaped area to handle, and put the sprinkler in the intersection of the "L" in front of a bush, pointing out at the lawn with the hose hidden along the shrubs. Many other sprinklers on the market allow you to set a sweep, so that is no big deal. I had several of them, and they all did a good job at the variable sweep. But read on to the next step below to see what Gilmour did so well to introduce variable distance throwing...Setting the Distance for each angle. Once you get the sweep/angles it throws water at the way you want, you then adjust a variable pattern of how far it throws the water within the sweep angles you set in the earlier step. Gilmour controlled how you do this very cleverly. All you do is push up or down the plastic ring at the various angles as the sprinkler goes around its path. To learn how it works, just push up from beneath the sprinkler every 15 degrees or so pushing the ring up all the way for some angles, and half way for other angles. Again, it will take a minute for you to watch it go around its sweep and to master how to set those adjustments affect the water output with trial and error, but once you see how it works from your test, you will then quickly be able to set the distances around the sweep angles by properly pushing up from underneath in several places from underneath the ring. Depending on your water pressure (mine is on a well pump, so not very strong, maybe gets up to 40 or 50 lbs of pressure), you can fine tune the distance it throws in this step very accurately. I have some parts of the sweep where I adjusted it so it throws the water 35 feet, and other parts of the sweep where I set it to throw the water only 8-10 feet, with lots of variation you can set in between.Durability. Yes, it is made of plastic, but would have to be to allow for their little plastic distance variation ring to smoothly be adjusted up and down. I had no leaks where you connect the hose to it, so that part was solid, and I have connected and disconnected them several times each watering season. The unit is lightweight, though, and it does vibrate some when it is working, and it could actually shift its position where you originally place it, so you may want to do what I did, and stake it down. The vibration does not change the settings you made, but could literally make the entire unit move an inch or so, thus throwing off the sweep angle because the whole unit moved. I took a coat hanger, made a U-shaped stake, and staked it down in two places. That worked great and it stayed put all season, and I reused the U-shaped hooks from the coat hanger the second season. But you can figure out various ways to resolve that minor issue. I am into the third season of using them, and except for the one my lawn tractor mowing deck edge hit by accident in my first season (which did break the unit, no surprise, and I bought a replacement) they are still going strong and have not broken now that I have learned to avoid them with the tractor! My watering season is about 5 months, and at the end of the first season, I disconnected the units for the winter and store them in the garage, and marked them with permanent marker to indicate which location in my yard each is for, and I marked them with an arrow pointing to a landmark on my yard so I would know exactly where to angle it on the yard when I place it down the following year. That way, I would not have to readjust the settings again.Competition on the market. I see that another mfg, Nelson I think, makes something similar too, but the Gilmour got better and more reviews, so I went with the Gilmour and after nearly three seasons of use, have no complaints. I am considering buying 2 more for other sections of my yard based on the success of these, or to have at least one backup in case I have another tractor incident with one. I am not sure why more companies do not sell these.Summary:Pros: Reasonable price and it does exactly what it is described to do. Color blends in with grass. Saves water by your being able to fine tune sweep and distance in a variable way. Holds up well to time (my third season using them). Quick delivery from Amazon. Adjustments stay put nicely, and can be readjusted without fear of breaking those adjustments. After trying at least 7 or 8 different sprinklers I finally found the one that meets my needs and has lasted into my third season and is still going strong. I recommend the unit highly.Cons: It would be nice if Gilmour include little stakes or something to stake them down, since they do jitter a bit while being used, and over time may shift the unit's location on the lawn a bit.

I waited 2 months to write this review because of the mixed reviews on this product. This sprinkler in my opinion worked awesome especially for the price, the coverage this gets is magnificent and I love the fact that you have control over where the water is going to spray.I gone through a couple different ones from Amazon including the Nelson Traveling sprinkler and I kept finding myself using these sprinklers again.I can not say my experience was perfect with this item, but what is perfect? During the first month there was one time the sprinkler would just sit there and not rotate but after a little fiddling around with it it began working correctly. I was so impressed with this sprinkler I bought a second one for the backyard.Pros:Besides the price, it has lasted the entire summer (up until now). I used these twice a day for 20-30 minutes and they have not failed on me.The adjustable tabs on the sprinkler are valuable because your coverage is controlled.Cons:At times I find the water pressure not being consistent, Im not sure if its something to do with the water pressure in my area or what but sometimes the sprinkler would spray full at a distance and at other times its weak (and no the water in my house was not being used).I have a large front and back yard so I have to move this around a couple times to get complete coverage in my yard, this doesn't seem to bother me thoughOverall I would give this product an "A", the traditional up and down sprinkler would possibly be a better fit for my yard. If I were you I would compare the two and figure out which would work best for your personal use. If your yard is wide and long like mine the traditional one might be better for you.

This is not only the best sprinkler I've ever had, but one of the best things I've ever bought on Amazon, period. It is pure genius. After using it for a couple of weeks, here is my overall appraisal:This "pattern sprinkler" is a huge time-saver. My lawn is a normal sized suburban yard, but for some reason it used to take me forever to water it (which makes me disinclined to do so). With my succession of previous sprinklers, in order not to be watering the street, driveway, or house, I have had to move the sprinkler all over the place. Between back and front yards, I have had to move the sprinkler 11 or 12 times at minimum, and even then there would be a lot of crossover, so that certain areas got double-watered. With this device, I only move the sprinkler five times, max.PRO:- Saves time and water. Precise allotment of water from roughly 45 feet to within 5 feet in a 360 degree circle. Basically what this means is you put it down in one spot, set the two rotation controls (or just let it spin in a continuous 360 degrees), and then set the distance limiter setting which has about 30 points on the circle that can be set from 45 ft to less than 5 ft each. Then, let it run. You then can have the water going full blast 45 feet across the yard, pulling back when it goes across the front of the house, going out a little further before the driveway, a little further more at the street, pulling back at the mailbox, and then going back to 45 feet out. Just incredible.- Quick to setup for each move. Once you see how the distance limiter buttons work, you can set them in 30 seconds or less each time. The rotation limiters are simple levers you just move.- Very lightweight, but seems durable.- Low price.CON:- It's made of plastic (thus the low price) so if you slam it on hard ground or concrete it is going to break. This problem could come into play if you are moving it, and winding up a lot of hose in your arm, and then carrying it all with the sprinkler hanging out at the end. You need to be careful and not just throw it all down on the ground.But believe me, after watching this little baby run you are going to want to be careful with it anyway.I think if they made one out of aluminum or some exotic substance and charged $150 instead of $19 I would be the first one to buy one. With this plastic model, I will just make it a point to go buy a new one if ever or whenever this one breaks.

I agree with many other reviewers that this is a very good product - maybe not high grade material (it's plastic) but it's great in the design and how well it works. The primary unique feature of this sprinkler is the highly adjustable spray pattern. There are numerous easily accesable small plastic tabs that are arranged in a round "clock face" design. These tabs are located under the red plastic round ring that you see in the photo. When you push a tab "up", it raises that specific small section of the flexible red ring. As the sprinkler head rotates around, and a rod connected to the sprayer head comes into contact with that specific area of the raised ring, it causes the water stream to not shoot out as far. Note - the reduced shooting length is 180 degrees opposite the selected red tab. Think of a clock face : In other words, if you raise up the tab located at 9:00 position, the water will not shoot as far in the 3:00 direction. The higher you raise the individual tab, the higher the red ring goes up in that area, and the less distance the water shoots out 180 degrees opposite of the raised tab. It does not appear to me that any less water shoots ... and I don't think the pressure is reduced... the volume of water, and the pressure behind it remain constant regardless of the settings on the tabs. What does change is the "angle" of the water nozzle spout. The raised red tab causes one end of the head to "raise up", which causes the nozzle end to "point down". The higher the red tab, the lower the nozzle goes down. The lower the nozzle, the less distance the water shoots out.For example, if you have a "rectangle pattern", the "short sides" will not use any less water than the long sides, but all of the water will go into the area you want, with no "over spray".I was able to adjust the tabs to get a "perfect" oval pattern. It takes a little trial and error, and you can adjust the tabs while the sprinkler is spraying, just by observing and adjusting as you walk a circle around the sprayer so you don't get wet in the process. You don't have to turn off the sprinkler to fine tune it.The distance and sq. foot coverage listed in the description is probably under "ideal conditions". My coverage, when no red tabs are raised, was only about 1/2 of what is stated. The maximum distance and coverage stated is probably based upon very high water pressure, using a very short connecting hose. The less pressure your home has, the more sprinklers you use at the same time, and the longer your connecting hoses will all serve to decrease the distance the water will spray. I ended up buying a 2nd one to get the coverage I needed for a newly planted area of lawn.However, all things considered - excellant sprayer for unique shapes... and when adjusted you can put the water ONLY where you want it to go!!!!REVISED - I have dropped this down from 5 to 4 stars - after a few years the plastic ring has a tendancy to break / crack.