Tool Tuesday – Multi-Use Sprayer [Video]

By Dad, how do I?

A Multi-Use Sprayer is great for many jobs.
I use it to water grass seeds so it is gentle on them and doesn’t disturb the peat moss.

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hey kids so it’s tool tuesday
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and um there’s a lot of things that
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count as tools and this is just this is
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another one and it’s springtime
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so um i’m actually going to be using
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this uh it’s a multi-use
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sprayer they’re really handy for certain
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things but you can put different things
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inside it i’m just going to use it for
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water because i’m actually
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planting some grass in my yard and i
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started a few weeks ago
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yeah and so in an upcoming video
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hopefully this week i’m going to
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actually
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show you how i uh plant grass in spots
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around your yard
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um and it’s worked really well and i
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have a landscaper for a neighbor and he
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showed me the trick that has worked
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really well for me um
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and these are real good good because it
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puts out a nice fine mist and so it
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doesn’t disturb the grass too much so
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but before we get into it i have a dad
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joke for you
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so what do you call a bear without any
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teeth
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a gummy bear ah so anyway let’s get
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started
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okay so all we want to do is we just
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want to add some water in here
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first so you just pull that thing out
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okay
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now we’re just gonna put some water in
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okay and then all you do is just take
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this this plunger here and you just put
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it right down inside
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and then you turn it
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okay just make sure it’s tight you want
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a good seal because if you don’t have a
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good seal
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then it won’t fill a fill up with
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pressure
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and then you just put it back here right
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so it’s kind of tightening and then you
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just lift up on here
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and you just pressurize it there’s
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actually a pressure release valve right
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here
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so make sure that that’s closed
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it’ll be obvious if it’s not closed
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because you won’t it won’t build up any
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pressure
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and then you just once you get it where
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you want it you just lock it back in
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okay
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and then now this will just put out a
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nice fine mist
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of water okay and then you can adjust it
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with the with the nozzle
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okay just like a hose
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but it works works really well see it
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puts a nice fine mist out there
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all right so here’s a close-up of this
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um you can see on the top here
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it has a there’s a slot right here
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where the handle fits down and then you
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lock it like that
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okay so we’re gonna pump it
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full of air actually this thing i think
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this thing is uh
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turned right now so we just got it you
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just gotta turn it once
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okay now it’ll start yeah i can feel the
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air
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pressure starting to build up
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okay and then we just lock it into the
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handle like that and then what that’s
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for
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is i’m just going to go ahead and show
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you that it releases so like you’re say
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you’re done and you still got some
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pressure built up in here you just all
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you do is just
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do that and then the pressure’s gone so
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now i gotta pump it up again but that’s
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what that’s for
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so you’re not having to just let this
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thing loose
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to let all the air out right you just do
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that so now
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on the way this model is you just turn
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it one
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once to the right once to the right
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every time you do it it opens it or
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closes it okay so now it’s closed again
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okay and then lock the handle and then
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now
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we can just go ahead and spray it
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and it’s actually got a uh if you slide
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this handle forward
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you close it and then slide the handle
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forward it actually just holds it see so
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i don’t even need to
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i don’t even need to hold that button
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down so the nice thing about it is
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it puts a nice mist on this
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puts a nice mist without really
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disturbing things
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and then that peat moss will hold that
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water and you want to do this at night
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i’ll get you another view here in just a
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second
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okay there you go that’s a little better
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okay let me go ahead and slide that
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handle so i’m not even holding it and
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then and then you just get it nice and
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moist
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okay
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and i like i said i recommend doing this
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at night
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and then it’ll hold it all the way
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through the night and then tomorrow too
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so that those
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those grass seeds can germinate
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you just coat it good right because if
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we had a thicker mist
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there it would disturb that peat moss
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because the peat moss is on there really
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light it’s just a light coating on top
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of the seeds you can even see some of
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the seeds even peeking out there
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okay
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okay so uh that kind of does it for this
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area hopefully you don’t have this big
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of an area to
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uh to fill in in your yard but on this
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area
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we have a big tree right here that
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blocks this so it didn’t get a whole lot
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of sunlight plus we have our dogs you
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know so i’m fighting this
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pretty much every year because any time
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it gets a little bit muddy then they’re
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running back and forth and
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um you know i still want to fight it
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though because it looks nice when it’s
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full of grass but uh yeah i mean most
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spots
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in your yard you’re gonna fight you know
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you can have a
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i don’t know one by one or whatever so
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it’s not going to be as big as this but
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uh anyway hopefully that’ll help you
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grow some grass so
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all right so i’ll show you how to grow
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the grass in my next video thanks for
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watching this
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tool tuesday and god bless you

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