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  Colin Hunt February 9, 2014 at 12:18pm

  Good idea but we have 3 knapsack sprayers, all marked up as above - can't be too careful!
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  English Sheep February 9, 2014 at 12:38pm

  Last season we were only using one Birchmeier Iris Pro knapsack sprayer for total and selective and a separate sprayer for fertiliser.

  

  This year however we are purchasing two more knapsack sprayers probably in different sizes and different colours probably along the lines of what Colin currently does.
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  Gary RK February 9, 2014 at 12:45pm

  We used to do similar, but have 4 PA qualified guys who spray (inc me), so it's easy to get sprayers confused .... and to have 12 sprayers...mmhh probably not practical on the pocket ;-).

  I just liked the simplicity of it .....and they supplied a number of them free with the order
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  English Sheep February 9, 2014 at 1:05pm

  Oh I see, naturally in your case Gary the velcro button idea would work wonders.

  Another idea would be to use the similar idea to the spray dye you can use.

  Instead of using the spray dye to identify your pass upon application why not get into the habit of simply putting a couple of drops of food colouring into the knapsack.

  RED for total,
  GREEN for selective.

  The reason why I say food dye is that it is cheap, you would not detect it whilst spraying (if that matters or not) yet when you look inside you will immediately identify and it should cut down on the old traditional sniff and guess method!

  Food dye is much much easier to work with than the professional spray dye sometimes used.
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  Danny M Cane February 9, 2014 at 1:08pm

  Good idea , simple yet effective
  
  As where on the subject of sprayers what backpack sprayer would anyone recommend?
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  Gary RK February 9, 2014 at 1:08pm

  Another excellent idea...Like the way one idea leads to another good idea :-)

  We use some of the blue indicator dye when spraying (especially when using the ATV).....get it on you and you're marked for days !!!!!.

  
  English Sheep said:

  Oh I see, naturally in your case Gary the velcro button idea would work wonders.

  Another idea would be to use the similar idea to the spray dye you can use.

  Instead of using the spray dye to identify your pass upon application why not get into the habit of simply putting a couple of drops of food colouring into the knapsack.

  RED for total,
  GREEN for selective.

  The reason why I say food dye is that it is cheap, you would not detect it whilst spraying (if that matters or not) yet when you look inside you will immediately identify and it should cut down on the old traditional sniff and guess method!

  Food dye is much much easier to work with than the professional spray dye sometimes used.
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  Robbie February 9, 2014 at 1:23pm

  Why not clean it out after use?
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  Geoff Norfolk February 9, 2014 at 2:00pm

  Its time-consuming to get the sprayer scrupulously which I would feel I had to do if I was spraying selective on someones prize lawn and the sprayer had previously been used for total weedkiller. If you didn't have Gary's "stickers", I suppose you could just write on the top of the sprayer with a felt tip..... soon comes off with a bit of petrol.
  
  Robbie @ PremierLawnsni said:

  Why not clean it out after use?
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  Phil Voice February 9, 2014 at 5:00pm

  An old tip given to me by a farm manager years ago was to quarter fill a knapsack with lukewarm water and add two egg cups full of vinegar and half an egg cup full of washing up liquid. Shake around a bit and then spray a little through the lance and leave for a while.

  The solution neutralises the residues within the knapsack.
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  Colin Hunt February 9, 2014 at 5:15pm

  Who is going to be the first to try this when doing some weed spraying on a show lawn? :-)
  
  Phil Voice said:

  An old tip given to me by a farm manager years ago was to quarter fill a knapsack with lukewarm water and add two egg cups full of vinegar and half an egg cup full of washing up liquid. Shake around a bit and then spray a little through the lance and leave for a while.

  The solution neutralises the residues within the knapsack.