BluBird Rubber Hoses

[sajohnson]

I've seen lately what looks like it's a 1" garden hose fittings on things . infact Princess Auto has a rack of garden hose fittings in their surplus section that looks like this and has bushings. they sell blue bird hoses, maybe they bought their stock

In the email notice I got, your reply was:

"the female hose fitting sure looks like a garden hose fitting..."

I can't find that post here on the forum, but yeah, both fittings are typical standard 3/4" GHT couplings.

The male looked smaller to me originally -- optical illusion I guess, as Neetu at TBH explained that the male coupling was/is 3/4" GHT and the adapter (discontinued) brought it out to 1" for some irrigation applications.

 

[The Cobbler]

and the adapter (discontinued) brought it out to 1" for some irrigation applications.

when I lived in the country we were beside a creek. I had several hundred feet of 1" hose as well as about 500 ft of 1-1/4 air hose that I got for next to nothing at a scrap yard. it came in a laod of scrap.
the 1" hose had 1" garden hose couplings .

 

[sajohnson]

when I lived in the country we were beside a creek. I had several hundred feet of 1" hose as well as about 500 ft of 1-1/4 air hose that I got for next to nothing at a scrap yard. it came in a laod of scrap.
the 1" hose had 1" garden hose couplings .

Nice!

I considered 1" ID hose but it is a LOT more expensive -- IIRC, 1" x 100' is ~$270 vs $120 for 3/4" x 100'. More than double the price.

I was looking at a chart that shows psi drop per 100' and @ 5 GPM, the drop is 1 psi for 1" ID hose and 4 psi for 3/4":

 

[The Cobbler]

yeah, I would have never bought it for full retail price . man this is bringing back memories . The 1" hose came from a Greenhouse/ garden center that was closing it's doors and getting rid of everything cheap. I had connections, nozzles, irrigator heads .
The 1-1/4 air hose was in a pile that came into the scrap yard . I was taking some stuff in & saw it, asked about it they said, take all you want & give us what you want. ( they would otherwise likely have to pay to get rid of it ) I grabbed about 500 ft if I recall they paid me like $59and change for what I brought in... I gave them the $9 & change .but man I had to wrestle it out of the pile as it was in there like spaghetti.

 

[sajohnson]

yeah, I would have never bought it for full retail price . man this is bringing back memories . The 1" hose came from a Greenhouse/ garden center that was closing it's doors and getting rid of everything cheap. I had connections, nozzles, irrigator heads .
The 1-1/4 air hose was in a pile that came into the scrap yard . I was taking some stuff in & saw it, asked about it they said, take all you want & give us what you want. ( they would otherwise likely have to pay to get rid of it ) I grabbed about 500 ft if I recall they paid me like $59and change for what I brought in... I gave them the $9 & change .but man I had to wrestle it out of the pile as it was in there like spaghetti.

Sweet deal!

TheBlueHose (TBH) prices make me feel good about what I'm paying HD, but it's still about $1.20 per foot.

This all came about because our "good" hose literally broke in half at 20*F when I was putting a gentle bend in it. It had already been repaired a couple times so I figured it was time to replace it, and the even older hose it's connected to.

This should be the last hose we have to buy. About twice the cost of PVC hose but worth it.