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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sprayers?
  • Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:08:09 -0400

How high a spray  can this mantis sprayer reach to for trees?

Thanks

Gordon C. Nofs

Flint, MI.

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From: "C. Waite Maclin" <waite8@gwi.net>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sprayers?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:55:13 -0400

Hi Tom. I have a Mantis Sprayer. It is battery driven and not near the work of a backpack sprayer. It holds 11 gal of liquid. I have been most pleased with it. Waite Maclin, Maine Zone 5
On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 09:11 AM, Tom Olenio wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I would like advice regarding sprayers...
>
>For my personal use I have the small, 1 gallon, hand pump sprayer.
>My inlaws have a 3 gallon backpack sprayer, and a very old, wooden
>tank sprayer, powered by a tractor PTO.
>
>The problem is that the orchard at my inlaws is shifting from a
>standard sized orchard, to a dwarf orchard. There are only about 12
>standard trees left, that are in decline (some severe). There are
>25 dwarf trees on M7 rootstock (I believe) as understory (removal of
>large trees will not be a problem for
>the dwarfs).
>
>Until the large trees are gone, we have to spray them, as just
>spraying the dwarfs will do little good. However, the old sprayer
>is getting ancient and needs work, and the smaller sprayers cannot
>reach anywhere near the tops of the large trees.
>
>Are there any options for a sprayer somewhere in the middle range?
>Which of them are the best, and which are moderately good?
>
>Suggestions/Ideas/Comments?
>
>Thanks,
>Tom
>
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