Anyone know of a tool to install drip irrigation emitters?

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Tamazon Vacaville, CA(Zone 8a) Sep 17, 2009

I've been installing drip irrigation for the plants I'm planting and my thumb and fingers are bright red and sore. Anyone know of a tool to use to push the suckers together. My thumb has had it. :) Thanks.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 18, 2009

I wear gloves when I do it, that helps a lot (I have the Atlas gardening gloves http://www.palmflex.com/product.php?productid=1466 that give you protection but allow a lot of finger dexterity--with other sorts of gloves I'm not sure how easy it would be to do it) The only tools I know of are ones for cutting the tubing and for poking holes in the larger tubing, I don't know of any tools for attaching the parts together.

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Tamazon Vacaville, CA(Zone 8a) Sep 18, 2009

Thanks. :) I'll have to try those gloves. I had regular gloves on to begin with and changed to my husbands work gloves in the end, but I was already tender.

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Jim41 Delhi, LA Sep 18, 2009

Go to home depot. I saw one today while looking at drip stuff.

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LiseP San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Oct 07, 2009

Probably too late to be helpful, but I went to a workshop last night and they said to use a cigarette lighter to *briefly* warm to plastic and make it pliable. We're talking about just a second or so. Or, you can dip in a glass of hot water, or lay the stuff out on a sunny day -- anything to warm the plastic and make it more pliable. Beyond that, use a combo twisting/rocking motion to ease the parts together.

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