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[inaudible] My summer project has me doing a

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lot of small batch spraying roughly 10 gallons at a

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time of each mix, which would be more than

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challenging with the 40 gallon tank because there's so much

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gets trapped at the bottom and sort of a pain.

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So I went out and got a 25 gallon

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Pimco, which you can see here on the back

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of my tracker and I'm sharing lessons learned. And

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one of the things that just came as an epiphany

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to me one day is the small Pimco's uh,

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they don't come with hitches or anything, They give

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you a sprayer and they're good luck with that and

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they expect you to stick it on the back or

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the front of your four wheeler. I don't have

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a four wheeler, not like that. But that

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carry all is a $50 item from Tractor Supply, not

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Tractor Supply, Harbor Freight. It fits into a standard

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two inch receiver hitch, which I have one for

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the tractor plus it also fits in on the back

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of my car. So if I ever had to

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hold something I didn't want in the car, I

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could put it out there. So it's a really

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handy thing and it's very affordable. It takes you

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less than an hour to put together and you've got

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a really good tool. First thing I would say

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though, is when you put it together, they

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have you put it and set, it up so

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that the nuts are on the inside where they'll gouge

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the tank, put it to the heads of the

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bolts on the inside and the nuts on the outside

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and you'll save your tank. So anyway you can

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see there's the tank about half full and I actually

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measure with graduated buckets. For I measured 10 gallons because

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the markings on the sides of these things are lousy,

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they are not measuring cups. So I'm trying

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to get repeatable accuracy for the concentrations of what I'm

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working with. You can see my two jugs in

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the foreground. The garage is my loading area and

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it's also where I store the pesticides. I do

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not have any restricted use pesticides so it's mostly to

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keep them from freezing and then I can keep the

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M. S. D. S. Sheets and

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everything in one spot. Come on. Oh this

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worked a moment ago. There we are. There again

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you can see how the tank fits in there.

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You'll see, I also have a small little

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prop underneath the tank because it wants to wobble across

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the center spar. Um The next thing I

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found that made things a lot easier was you're, I'm measuring

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a 1% dilution which is really close to 1.3 fluid

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ounces per gallon since we're imperial. And that's these

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pre marks on here as a 1%. Okay so

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I have one at 13 and one in 26.

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Now this is a translucent measuring cup and I'm loving

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it because I know am I mixing for 10 gallons

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or 20 gallons. So I know my batch size

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and when I fill, I can look down into

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the cup and see the tick marks on the inside.

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So then when I pour, I pour to

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the tick mark, it makes it really brain dead,

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for precision. Doing 10 gallons, I need 1%.

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I pour to the 10 gallon mark. So

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that really has simplified things a lot. So when

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I pour into the sprayer, I use the spray

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wand to rinse out the cup back into the sprayer.

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This is Regalia®, it's really thick, It's

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not very clear, so it needs a good rinse

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to get it out of the measuring cup into the

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tank. Now when I'm spraying my trees are marked

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um the sample trees are marked with orange flagging tape.

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These are the trees that at the end of

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it all I'm gonna be taking measurements from and it's

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so I remember and they were selected for their health

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and things like that. So these are the sample

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trees for each row. Better picture the ones with

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the checkered flags on them are the control trees.

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They don't get the sprays that I'm using on the

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sample trees, they get cover sprays. So if

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I need an insecticide on, I'll do that.

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If I've got an issue with rampant disease of one

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kind or another, they might get a coat for

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that. But otherwise they are not getting sprays,

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they are getting full ear feeds also. So they

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are marked according now, you know, so I've

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got a tape. Something obvious on the high wire,

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something obvious on the low wire, something in

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the tree. Something low. The reason for this

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is when you're spraying is easy to kind of zone

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out and not realize you're coming up on a control

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tree. So as I approach each row I stop

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and I look for those flags. So that reminds

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me watch your drift and don't spray these trees also

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at the beginning of each row they have flag.

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Now you'll notice back on these, I've got orange,

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black and black, white. I'm doing two

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different treatments. So the rows are flagged to reflect

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the treatment that I'm using that way I don't space

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out and spray the wrong road. They're alternating rows

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with alternating variety. So there's a reason to my

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madness here. So that really helps with something after

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this. No that is in a nutshell, how

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I am managing the workflow of doing the sprays um

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mixing the sprays um Using a smaller container that pimco

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sprayer does not have a decent pressure regulator on it

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but it's good enough. It's a demand pump so

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that it's what I do is I run the agitator

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which is just a full bypass. I run that

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until I get to the orchard after you get in

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my orchard you're agitated. It's agitated. It's all

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mixed up. I don't have any dissolved solids.

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There's no edible powders in here so I don't have

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to worry about settling. So as soon as I

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get to the orchard I turn off the bypass and

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then I'm getting roughly 60 P. S. I

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sometimes I will throttle it back a little bit especially

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if it's windy because I don't want drift and I

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just use a tip that gives me big spots and

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it gets on the tree. Um Those of you

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familiar with sprayers you get it on that bigger tank.

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I have a pressure regulator. Different video and

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that's very helpful for constant pressure and running the agitator

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simultaneously. So I hope that you find this useful

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if you're doing small plots for some reason and you're

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looking for ways to make it easier here. It's

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simple, easier look at that to do your sprays.

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Um This is what I found help putting the

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tick marks on the on the measuring cup for volume

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at 1%. So totally helps a lot especially because

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it's translucent. That was a big win. So

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I hope you enjoy this. I hope it helps

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you out and you take care of the day