Hand Sprayer Wand

Texasmark1

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I guess this is a tool. Anyway, I have a wind blocking fence of cedars. Tops are 35 ft high. In the next couple of months, something will come by and deposit eggs which develop into bag worms. Reading up on the subject apparently the source is deposited in the upper most branches of the cedars and the bag worm eggs fall down the tree limbs to infiltrate the whole tree. If you don't kill them they will kill the tree. Have seen it happen to a neighbor. I need my tree fence.

I have tried several pumps and spray wands, most made by Fimco. Currently my largest is 12v, 60 psig @ 2 gpm rating.....but you know as well as I those are extremes and don't occur simultaneously.....it'll put out 60 psig static pressure before the switch turns the pump off and if you're lucky, you might get 2 gpm out of it at who knows what kind of pressure.

I'm using a $50 pistol grip wand now and it's not what I expected. I want a pencil stream that will shoot 35' almost straight up hopefully with my current pump. This sprayer is a sink hole for money and a sink hole in desired performance.

What do you guys use for such a problem?

Thanks,
Mark
 
I use an old stainless steel fire extenguisher. The kind that used to be in schools. Top screws off, dump in what you want, use air compressor to 100 lbs. Sprays about 40 feet. Holds about 2.5 gallons. Can't help with a wand. My hand sprayer only goes about 20 feet.
 
Just a thought, but if you can't get the spray to go that high, take the wand closer to where you want the spray to hit. You can get the long extension wands, that are designed to be used with a pressure washer, at places like Northern Tool. I've got one that will extend to 24 feet. With the harness that comes with it, it's not as difficult to hold, and use, extended as you'd think, even when spraying 3000 psi out the nozzle. With a much lower pressure is shouldn't be that hard at all to use, and with the right nozzle it ought to put the stream where ever you want it.
Poke here
 
Texasmark1- my pressure washer @32,000 psi will usually shoot it where I want..

Mix it up in the bulk tank and PTO pump it to the pressure washer. I can get pretty far.


HTH
 
I have a fimco pull sprayer (15 gallon) that does the trick. It shoots the tops of my mature cedars. One spring I couldn't get a good spray out of it. Come to find out there is a mesh filter in the tube from the bottom of the tank to the pump. It is the kind some sprinklers have - rubber gasket with a cone shaped screen. Mine was plugged with algae - water must have set right there after I flushed it the last time. I cleaned it good and it is back to the same pressure. I would see if I could put a longer wand on it and then put the same tip back on it. If it had a 10 foot stalk on it I bet you could do what you needed. It may be cumbersome, but it would work.

I usually spray for bag worms twice. It takes about 30-40 gallons to do all of the trees on the farm with malathion. No carry over, but I don't think anything that kills bagworms has carryover.
 
Hi Mark,
I live in northeast Texas and have had serious bagworm problems in past years. I haven't had much luck with sprays, though. I read an article by one local extension agent who advised setting out some Shasta daisies in the yard, so I tried that. He said there is a parasital wasp that will feed on bagworms and depends on the daisies for a stage of its lifecycle. It worked for me.
Butch
 
That IS an option I hadn't thought about. I see Northern Tool advertise them.

Thanks for your input and your time.

Mark
 
Geez, I guess so. I have a pressure washer but it's 2300 psi and no bulk tank.

Thanks for your reply.

Mark
 
I have used Malathion or Bayer insecticide, or another popular brand with the product name Tri......ide. Don't remember the rest of it. All work fine and that's not the problem. The problem is I can kill off all but the tops and I have naked tops......

I'm using the 15 gallon tank also but upped my pump from the OEM 1 gal/30 psi to double that as mentioned with a $50 wand in an attempt to get more height. I got some but not what I expected with the changes.

I will check, but the interior of the tank is clean as I expect the screen to be. I wash it out and clean it after each use.

Thanks for you input.

Mark
 
Naw. Nothing to suport it, at my age afraid of heights on ladders, and would get the stuff all over me.

Thanks anyway.

Mark
 
First off I am at a loss as to the source of the worm. I have read several explanations on how all this works and also they appear a couple of weeks or so after the first rash of butterflies comes through.

One year I remember the butterfly was about half the size of the Monarch, tomato worm green with a yellow spot on each wing and there were hundreds of them migrating. Next year didn't see that insect but worms were there before the butterfly migration cycle. Have had them every year now for about the past 5 years. They will definitely kill the trees as a neighbor didn't spray and the tree died. I need them for a road noise and wind block and after all the trouble I went through to dig them up wild and plant them, I surely don't want to loose any of them.

I'm just disappointed that the changes I made to the OEM sprayer didn't do as anticipated. The idea about using a long pole type sprayer has merit but would be cumbersome. I have 160 of these trees, planted 6' apart and they are large. I currently pull a little trailer with the tank with a old deckless riding lawn mower that I use for my "Gator".

Thanks for your input and time,
Mark
 
My friend has one that is designed for spraying trees and would probably go that high. IIRC the pump is running a higher pressure than the typical sprayer. Northern Tool site says 200psi for their tree sprayer and it has a different wand/nozzle combo to go from a cone to stream pattern.
 
My tank has always been spotless. That's why I never gave a screen another thought. Sure surprised me. It could be an easy fix...
 
Ok sir, thanks for the tip. Will check it out. That could explain a lot of things that I don't understand about why this new pump doesn't do all that much as compared to the orig.
 
I have had the same issue with small speayers. I have been using insecticidal dust on my trees. I have a old duster I got at a auction for a few dollars. Holds about five pounds of dust. Get the right wind or here in Kansas lack of wind and the dust will do a good job of coverage. You are limited to a few different insecticides.
 
Checked it today. The screen is much larger than the hose to ensure that there is adequagte volume but there could still be some turbulence caused by the screen. I removed it and will test it tomorrow.

Other thing I noticed was that if I remove the tip, the 4 perpendicular holes allow enough water out for the pump to continue running and not shut off due to reaching 60 psig as it does with the round tip attached.

So I bored it out somewhat and tomorrow will see how that works on the cutting off and the height. Might get there with the right size orifice.

Mark
 
Well I opened the orifice about .02 and that was enough flow to keep the pump running. The height looked like it should work. I tried with and without the screen and no difference. Good I wanted the screen on there.
 

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