Re: CULT: Spraying
From: "wstone" <wstone@volcano.net>
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From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:59 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Spraying
>From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
>There is a man here in Springfield who has been growing iris
probably longer
>than I have been alive who has made his own sprayer. I've been
talking to him
>about this sprayer, it is pretty neat the way he has set it up. He
has it set
>up on a trailer he pulls behind his riding mower with a 12 volt
electric pump
>running off his mower battery. He has a couple of in line valves on
it so that
>if the pressure gets too high it will allow the liquid to be
returned to his
>tank. He has a hose on his sprayer that is about 50 feet long so he
can reach
>way into his garden without having to carry anything except the
hose, no weight
>of a water filled tank to carry around the garden. I'm thinking
about following
>his lead on this and building me one of these too. :)
>
>Glenn
>Glenn & Linda Simmons
>Springfield, Southwest Missouri, USDA Zone 6
>g*@swbell.net
> or
>G*@netscape.net
Glenn:
Gordon of Gordon and Lorraine. ( Nicholson's Woodland Iris )
suggested I look at the Micron Sprayer. What impresses me is it will
cover the same area sprayed with approximately 1/4 of the spray
according to brochures. It is battery operated eliminating pumping
and lightweight. There is a website at www.bubco.com for a
California Distributor or look at www.micron.micron.co.uk At
present my sprayer sprays a 4 inch to a 18 inch pattern and I could
use a shield if needed. I feel with a controlled sprayer of this type
it possibly eliminates a lot of overspray. Bill
wstone@volcano.net
Stone's Iris Garden
23801 Shake Ridge Rd
Volcano, CA 95689
California garden with snow on the ground at 3500 foot elevation
Southeast of Sacramento, California
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