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Post by daylilydude on Jul 1, 2018 8:03:08 GMT -5
Do you use these around your yard or garden and if so what do you spray with it and what kind/brand is it? The wife and I were at Harbor Freight Link...
and saw these back pack sprayers so we bought 2 of them... 1 is for weed killer and the other is for spraying fungicides, pesticides. and my liquid plant food. It is a 4 gallon pump style back-pack sprayer it come with a rebuild kit with all the gaskets and 4 different nozzles, single mist, double mist, fan spray and 1 called a flower mister? I used 1 bright and early this morning and am really pleased with it... yes, I sprayed my liquid fertilizer with Epsom salts in it and used the fan spray nozzle it's really a wide spray but it served the purpose I used it for... but now I only had it to 3 gallons in the tank and it will hold 4 and it was a little awkward getting on so I just sat it on the tailgate of my truck and it helped out alot.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jul 1, 2018 8:32:56 GMT -5
With you all the way, daylilydude. Probably not as good sprayer as the $100.00 one I had. The HF sprayer does the job quite well. I do like you to get it on or set on the edge of the deck. Seldom put over two gallons in it. Is used more for spot spraying. Have a pull behind for bigger jobs.
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Post by carolyn on Jul 1, 2018 8:47:07 GMT -5
ya, we have several of them... we couldn't do without them. we have a gas powered one, two hand pump back pack sprayers, several 2 gallon ones and several 1 quart ones. many are designated to specific sprays. I ruined one of the Solo backpacks by accidentally pouring a weed killer in it meaning to pour in calcium ...and promptly sprayed and killed my greenhouse crop.... I picked up the wrong container. a relatively expensive oops... but the day was a really bad day for someone else i knew and I am sure they would have gladly taken my day over theirs. I still think about that every time I think about that family.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 1, 2018 9:37:43 GMT -5
I just use a 1 1/2 gallon sprayer from Tractor Supply. They are about $10 and are fine for my needs. I have it labeled FOR GARDEN ONLY and I use it to spray Actinovate which is a biological and one time I sprayed some copper but generally I do not use it much. My Neem and spinosad are pre-mixed and in small bottles.
I discovered early on that using a sprayer bigger than a gallon or two gets really heavy to carry around and with only about 15 tomato plants I really don't need more than a gallon of product usually.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 1, 2018 12:04:23 GMT -5
I have two 2 gal sprayers, one of which I keep Surround in at all times. It does not break down, and lasts from spraying to spraying, and when it gets to the bottom, I just fill it again. The other one I keep for whatever else, usually fungicide - KHCO3, actinovate, aspirin, and, when something gets really bad, a copper spray, which, fortunately, I rarely need. I also have a battery operated sprayer, which really isn't that good, as it is very slow; I almost sent it back, but I found out that it was good for weed killer (not Roundup, and those kind of things!), as the fine mist is good for coating the leaves, and slow is good, for that type of work. That's another thing that can stay in the sprayer - the clove and cinnamon oils do not break down in that kind, and acetic acid (the other weed killer I use) also does not break down.
I would never even think about getting one of those backpack types. I never use that much, plus I have a shoulder that needs replacing - something long before the knee problem.
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Post by september on Jul 1, 2018 12:14:49 GMT -5
I use the 2 gallon pump sprayers, and have 3 of them, all labeled for their special product. When the gardens are in full growth, I use about 2 gallons for each garden site, so 4+ gallons total, but a 4 gallon sprayer would be too heavy for me to wander around with. Even a full 2 gallon is not fun to drag up and down the paths. I'm glad daylilydude , started this thread though, because it got me thinking. I was going to buy a set of caster wheels and build a little cart carrier for my tank, but then remembered those collapsible grocery carts. I found one like this shopping cart and ordered it from Amazon. If the tank sits too low, I can put a block of wood under it to raise it up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 17:30:59 GMT -5
I have a smaller Solo type sprayer, it gets heavy enough to cart about. While a backpack sprayer can be handy if you have a lot to do, it's hard on the neck and shoulders too.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 2, 2018 13:04:20 GMT -5
I have a small gallon sprayer for herbicides, and a 3-gallon pull model for fungicides/pesticides/foliar feeding.
I like that if I fill the 3 gallon, I can do the whole garden if needed. Also the 3-gallon is taller, so I can pump it without having to bend way over.
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