Customer Reviews

Claber 8744 Rectamatic 18 Oscillating Garden Sprinkler

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This sprinkler is not a cheap sprinkler that is going to need to be replaced after a couple of uses. This does exactly what it is supposed to do. It works great in large areas as well as small areas.

This is made of good materials not cheap plastic. I would recommend this to any of my friends without any hesitation.

I bought the Claber 8744 and was delighted with its performance. Then 30 days later it stopped functioning. I believe the rotating mechanism froze up. I emailed the customer service department directly. They did not respond to my first email. Then I contacted them 2 weeks later using their online contact form. They responded in one day. They asked to see the Amazon invoice of which I sent an electronic version. Today I got a non-original replacement model. It sells on Amazon for half the price I paid for. Disappointed. Now we'll see how this performs.

This piece of garbage sold for $35 and never worked right. It had a connection that came apart too easily, so without realizing it, when dragging it through the grass, it broke completely. It was really poor quality.

I've bought more sprinkers & watering devices than I can count, and inevitably have ended up disappointed - until now. This is the ideal sprinkler: well-made, solid, easily able to adjust for various ranges in terms of width & depth of spray. At maximum, reaches farther than much larger sprinklers I own. I've had for a year now, and still works perfectly.
update 6/2011: Wrote the above review beginning 2nd years' use. Now using this sprinkler for the 3rd summer: stopped rotating - opened up mechanism (how many sprinklers can you do THAT with!?!) - discovered a small hard piece of debris was jamming gears- removed it - now working fine again. Way to go Claber!

I have more than one of these sprinklers. Each and every one of them eventually has failure of the plastic component and gets stuck. I like the sprinkler while it works, but it hasn't been two years and all of mine have stopped working.