Noodlehead N111C Flexible Lawn & Garden Sprinkler
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Noodlehead N111C Flexible Lawn & Garden Sprinkler
Customer Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
I would rather give this three and a half stars and not four.
This is a great sprinkler and a great idea but could use some improvements.
First, it could be bigger. It is a lot smaller then I thought it was going to be.
The noodles are not as flexible as they need to be but I could understand that if they are too flexible they may not be able to stand up. And sometimes its hard to get a noodle bent into position especially if your trying to bend the noodle downward pretty far. Sometimes you have to bend past the angle you want and let the noodle straighten a bit to where you intend it to spray.
I did find that it worked better if you place the sprinkler on a pole and have the noodles pointed up and adjust them according to where the water lands on the garden.
But the one big plus is when I watered my garden I was able to point a noodle to my lily plant near the garden and have it get watered the same time the garden did. And even tho it took a while to get the sprinkler adjusted to cover the garden, it still was able to water the entire garden. I have no other sprinkler that has done that so far.
Im not sorry I bought this becuase I was able to make it work. But, like I said, it could use a couple improvements.
Customer Review: Perfect pocket size sprinkler for bonsai farms
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, its small.
The concept is terrific - direct the various "noodles" in the direction you need and walk away.
I purchased based on reviews (and amazon's awesome free shipping, yeah!)but did not think to check out the actual size..this is a very small sprinkler. It is the size of your fist and each noodle is the size of half a drinking straw) Very little water comes out of each straw.
Also, moving the noodles needs to be done while the water is running, so you can see where to aim the noodles. This is time consuming and the noodles don't stay bent...they slowly move back, usually directing water onto your head while you try to bend the rest of the noodles, which must be highly entertaining for your neighbors!
Why 4 stars? It cost around $14 and as long as you know its small and will only water a small area, that is perfect for folks with small townhouse gardens or an unusual shaped place...the oscillating kind of sprinklers tend to break easily so this might be a good option for some people. Also, watering slowly is a good thing..let the water percolate slowly instead of blasting into the ground and running off, right?
Just be aware the noodle concept is a bit of a gimmick but might work if you know what you are getting.
Happy gardening!
Customer Review: a lot of noodling around...
Summary: 2 Stars
The idea in this sprinkler is that it has 12 "noodles" that you can point in whatever position you want to get the best coverage of an unusual shape or area, but you totally have to noodle around with this to get it adjusted the way you want.
If you have an irregular area that is difficult for other sprinklers to cover properly this might work. But if you want to change the location of the Noodlehead from one place to another, be prepared to doink around with the noodles again.
Turn off the water, re-aim the noodles, turn on the water, hope it worked, oooops, turn off the water again, re-aim... repeatedly...
Otherwise you will likely get wet trying to adjust it. If you can find an application area where you can set it just once and leave it alone, this might work for you.
Frankly I've only used it once or twice because it's such a pain to work with...
If you want a really really GREAT sprinkler, try this one: Dramm 15024 ColorStorm 9-Pattern Premium Turret Sprinkler With Heavy Duty Metal Base - Green (and it comes in different colors as well...)
Customer Review: Cool idea, but not too practical for everyday use
Summary: 2 Stars
This sprinkler is a great concept, but at the end of the day it is a specialized tool that isn't very useful for basic watering situations.
Problems:
1) The noodles are stiff plastic, so you have to over-bend them, and hope they move back to where you want them.
2) Each noodle shoots three fine streams of water. That's a great idea for a squirt gun, but annoying in a sprinkler. It would drench one area, and hardly dampen an area 12" away.
3) It's a pain to adjust without getting wet. I spent quite a while turning the sprinkler on, watching the pattern, turning it off, then adjusting the noodles. I went through this process about 10 times before I got it just right. Based on issue 2, you have to be exact, or you'll miss the area you need to water.
HOWEVER, in my opinion, this sprinkler is ideal for someone who will mount it to a fence, or watering a specific area like a corner garden. You can mash all the noodles to one side, and voila - you are only watering that part of the yard.
For someone like myself, who was hoping to save on water by only hitting the few patches in my yard that have fresh seed, the Noodlehead just didn't work.
Customer Review: Cool product with limitations
Summary: 4 Stars
Well in the search for the perfect sprinkler for those of us without ingrounds, I have to admit I purchased this because it looked odd and I bought into the variety of ways the sprays can be directed.
It works great if you need it to water lets say plants going across a fence or in front of house etc. That is mostly because you can shoot them all one way at first and then while it is on move the little hoses to where you want them aimed. The negative is that if you need to cover a wider and disparate area..you have to shut it off, move the nozzles, go back and turn it on and hope it is hitting where you want it to because obviously you will get wet trying to do it while its on.
Overall its a cool gadget that works best for watering in one specific area and aiming the nozzles to specific plants area. Its average as far as full law coverage and tough to make sure it hits everything.
I am using mostly to water along my fence in my backyard where my wife has alot of plants, my front yards cottage garden plants and the vegetable garden. My regular sprinkler i can then just make sure it waters the lawn and not worry about the plants/bushes/flowers.