Heavy Duty Brass Fireman Style Hose Nozzle - Fits All Standard Garden Hoses - Best High Pressure Sprayer to Wash Your Car or Water Your Garden – Leak Proof - 30 Day No-Hassle Guarantee

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Reviews made think twice, but everything about the description sounds right.Here's the deal. Most, if not all the negative reviews, aren't about this nozzle, it's about the reviewers water supply.I bought this because I have a need to do a lot of heavy hand watering while seed germinate and plants/grass establish. This was a huge surprise. It's awesome.Basics: it's HD, very smooth to operate and durable. It's big too, but that's a plus.Beyond that if you have the water flow (volume), the right hose size (diameter to move as much water as possible) and water pressure (can't do much about most of our municipal water supply pressure) this thing is like a fire hose. The volume of water it can move is insane. With good pressure, that heavy volume can be delivered easily 20-40 feet away. And the best part is that adjusting it from a more narrow to wide spray pattern (for close and far away adjustments in the fly) is really easy one handed so you have the other hand for the hose.If you use a small diameter hose or don't turn the water supply up high you can't get the pressure or the volume of water to the end of the hose. What you might find is that depending on your supply, if it's like ours when there's a lot of use going on the pressure to your house drops. If that's the case, of course you can't get the same results from this nozzle. I have other nozzles that will work better from a pressure standpoint in those low pressure cases, but they can't deliver even close to the amount of water.The key is using a bigger hose (I'm only using 5/8" diameter and length is from 25' up to 100' garden hoses with no issues) just don't use the little coiled hoses or small 1/2", they can't supply the amount of water the nozzle can move. Also turn the water supply all the way up, open that sucker up and get as much water to the nozzle as you can. The more the better and then you can control how much you're delivering by adjusting the nozzle.If you have low pressure water supply this may not be the right nozzle. Imagine if you connected a fire hose to your house and you had to put out a fire. The water would trickle out. Connect it to a hydrant, and you have enough water and pressure to blow up a garden hose.Keep that in mind when reading the majority of the negative reviews. This nozzle is great, if you have the water supply and pressure. Most residential water supplies should do just fine.

We purchased several of these. One for each garden hose. We have purchased many different types of spray handles in the past and they were a total waste of $ but this model has been the best. Screws securely onto the garden hose. You can adjust the level/strength of water pressure from fine mist to full pressure stream.

I use my old style brass nozzles mostly. This one is ok, but not what I anticipated. Kinda weak. Would be good for watering plants gently or rinsing.

Though I'm tempted to weigh in on the metallurgy, I'm not qualified to analyze it's composition. I think what's undeniable is that this is an extremely high quality precision tool, engineered far beyond anything you've used outside. It's perfect like the lid on a new Macbook. It's obvious the Air Force veteran associated with this company brought a passion for excellence and executed his concept remarkably. But now let's talk about how it sprays, because it might turn like a knife cuts through butter without even the slightest play in the nozzle, but if it doesn't spray well or shut off correctly what good is it? My opinion is that this needs to be redesigned to function like the identical Sears Craftsman nozzle. Let me explain. I feel a nozzle should go from:offgentle floodfull floodfull cone sprayfocused cone sprayfull jet sprayclamped jet sprayoffBut this nozzle doesn't do that. It goes like this:full cone spray very very widefocused cone sprayfull jet sprayclamped jet sprayoffOkay so if you're getting this nozzle as a jet, then great. Having it turn off and on in jet mode is fine, but if you're trying to water plants then no, having it turn on in jet mode is awful. As you continue to twist and widen the jet, it's still full power so is again too strong for plants. At the extreme of twisting is full cone spray very wide. The darn cone is so immensely wide that I constantly spray my shoes. I can not direct it where I want because nothing comes out of the middle of the cone. So at normal water level you're spraying like a 6 foot wide circle with zero water in the middle. So great for a jet but not useful in the garden. I hope they consider fixing that. Regardless, it's a work of art and something I'm proud I own.

I needed to replace a similar style of nozzle, made by Nelson, that we've had for 13+ years. It was being replaced because the rubber moldings that form the grip surface had finally started to crack & break after all those years in direct sunlight. I went with the Dradco because their nozzle is made from solid brass & stainless steel, whereas it's now reported that current Nelson models use plastic in their internals.Received the nozzle, packaging was pretty minimalist, which was actually a nice change - less stuff to go in the recycle bin. The nozzle itself seems well made, only minor downside to its design is that the rubber overmold was smooth instead of stippled or knurled for better grip. Upon initial use, I was concerned because the spray pattern was pretty uneven at its highest-velocity aperture, so something in the the internals was slightly out of alignment. I gave it nearly a month to break in, hoping that the parts just needed to break in with some use, but it continued. This may not be the case with all of the units, but I wasn't going to keep buying & returning samples until I got one that didn't have issues with its spray pattern.In the end, I ended up buying a similar style of nozzle, also made from solid brass, at the local freight company for about 40% of the price. Its overmold is knurled, and there are no issues with the spray pattern on the two that I purchased.