imagineero
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Just wanted to pass on a tip I picked up last week from a client.
I use glyphosphate 360 for stumps that aren't going to be removed. It comes in 1L (about 1 quart) bottles, or in bulk 20L (about 5 gallons) drums in aus, and is kind of pricey, comes it at around $10/L, even in bulk, and nearly $20 for a 1L bottle. I've always decanted it into the 1L bottles with a hole punched in the top and pour it on stumps. It's messy and you waste quite a lot but I never did find a better solution. I tried the cheap $1 'spray to squirt' bottles but they generally dont work spraying down, which is where I'm always spraying. I don't use enough chemical to warrant one of the pump style sprayers with a wand, they seem to start at about 1 gallon size and go up from there.
I was pouring chemical on a stump at a clients house and she mentioned that it was kind of wasteful. I agreed but said I had no better idea. She showed me a sprayer she has for watering her indoor plants, called an 'inverter sprayer', it was 1.5L (about a quart and a half) in size, which is about the right size for me, and has the pump style thing on top to pressurize. What made it different from sprays I'd used in past was that it has a floating pickup on a very flexy soft rubber hose with a weighted end. So no matter where you point it, even upside down, its always at the bottom of the chemical.
They claim 'good to the last drop, 360 degrees'. I wont say it was good to the last drop, but definitely good to the last few drops, and good to 360 degrees. Has a great range on it too, about 6' with very good pin point accuracy. It cost me ten bucks. I wont fuss with the brand since there were heaps of the same style at my local hardware, just look for one with a flexy weighted pickup and a claim of 360 degrees. After a weeks use, I'd estimate I'm getting about 4x as much coverage out of my chemical. Wish I'd found it sooner!
Shaun
I use glyphosphate 360 for stumps that aren't going to be removed. It comes in 1L (about 1 quart) bottles, or in bulk 20L (about 5 gallons) drums in aus, and is kind of pricey, comes it at around $10/L, even in bulk, and nearly $20 for a 1L bottle. I've always decanted it into the 1L bottles with a hole punched in the top and pour it on stumps. It's messy and you waste quite a lot but I never did find a better solution. I tried the cheap $1 'spray to squirt' bottles but they generally dont work spraying down, which is where I'm always spraying. I don't use enough chemical to warrant one of the pump style sprayers with a wand, they seem to start at about 1 gallon size and go up from there.
I was pouring chemical on a stump at a clients house and she mentioned that it was kind of wasteful. I agreed but said I had no better idea. She showed me a sprayer she has for watering her indoor plants, called an 'inverter sprayer', it was 1.5L (about a quart and a half) in size, which is about the right size for me, and has the pump style thing on top to pressurize. What made it different from sprays I'd used in past was that it has a floating pickup on a very flexy soft rubber hose with a weighted end. So no matter where you point it, even upside down, its always at the bottom of the chemical.
They claim 'good to the last drop, 360 degrees'. I wont say it was good to the last drop, but definitely good to the last few drops, and good to 360 degrees. Has a great range on it too, about 6' with very good pin point accuracy. It cost me ten bucks. I wont fuss with the brand since there were heaps of the same style at my local hardware, just look for one with a flexy weighted pickup and a claim of 360 degrees. After a weeks use, I'd estimate I'm getting about 4x as much coverage out of my chemical. Wish I'd found it sooner!
Shaun
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