Our new sprayer showed up this week. We were very fortunate to be able to purchase a nice John Deere sprayer to replace our slowly failing older sprayer. A few upgrades have occurred to this unit since the last one was purchased here.
The new unit has various nozzles so that we can apply fertilizers and pesticides with the right amount of water and minimize chemical drifting to other areas or golfers.
The new unit also has an automatic rate controller that will help us set our rates and control the application based on our speed. This will give us a much more consistent application across the sprayed area and lead to more consistent greens color and pest protection. The biggest change was the addition of the "clean load" induction system. This allows us to load the chemical concentrate in a safe working area and then mix it with the tank water and helps prevent accidental splashing and dust blowing back in our faces during the mixing operation.
To top it all off, this is a diesel unit which will give us more years of use than a gasoline engine.
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