Patent ID: 8523121

Claim:
A support apparatus for holding a sprinkler hose drop of an irrigation device at an elevated position, comprising: a sprinkler support body having a contact surface configured to support a sprinkler at an elevated position; and a hose holder body carried by the sprinkler support body and having an arcuate groove and a contact surface section provided at one location along the arcuate groove and configured to grasp a midline segment of the hose to retain the midline segment of the hose within the arcuate groove at the contact surface section and enable one or more adjacent portions of the midline segment to withdraw from the arcuate groove while the contact surface is not supporting the sprinkler at an elevated position corresponding with the sprinkler hose drop configured in a lowered position, the groove configured to receive an adjacent portion of the hose to support the hose and impart a bend curvature that inhibits kinking of the hose when carried in an elevated position by the sprinkler support body.