Killing brush and weeds the easy way !!

[brin]

I bought a 15 gallon spray electric spray rig from Harbor Freight for $99.00 and a Chicago Electric jump start power pack from HF for $39 with a coupon and today the Mrs. and I put both in the pack of our pick up filled with weed, grass and brush killer and drove the farm...along fence lines , around trees, along the edges of the road and wherever we saw that invasive privet.....

Now that was great ....it took about 2 hrs. for what used to be a 2 day job with our little pump up sprayers..If you have much land at all..this would be worth you looking into...

[bigbull338]

i bought a new sprayer like you bought last year from TSC for $59.but i havent used it yet.

[Steave]

It looks as if I'll be buying me something like that because the poison oak/ivy has almost taken over in spots. I plowed up a spot about 50' by 100' near the side of the road and planted some grass in hopes of choking it out instead of constantly spraying. This area had 1 large oak tree and lots of other small brush until the tornado last April took out the large oak. I have much larger spots left to go and tired of pumping !!!.

[Combustix]

I got goats, Just gotta open the pen gate.

[brin]

It looks as if I'll be buying me something like that because the poison oak/ivy has almost taken over in spots. I plowed up a spot about 50' by 100' near the side of the road and planted some grass in hopes of choking it out instead of constantly spraying. This area had 1 large oak tree and lots of other small brush until the tornado last April took out the large oak. I have much larger spots left to go and tired of pumping !!!.

Steave...I bought the sprayer and power pack so I could use it from my truck, ATV or tractor and it sure does save a lot of time and works like a charm...I got the Brush Killer which is 41% Glosphate ( not sure of the spelling but what kills the brush , grass and weeds ) from Home Depot on line...It was 1/2 the price of Roundup...$39 for 2 & 1/2 gallons of concentrate and we used it last year and it worked great. It is called " Compare and Save " but our local HD store did not have it so we got it from their on line site with free shipping...It guarantees a 1 yr. kill and I can attest to that.

[kebo]

Could you not just get a 12V power cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter and run it off of the trucks electrical system?? Depending on how much current the pump motor draws, the tractor and/or atv may also have enough power to run it? Just a thought anyway.

[brin]

Could you not just get a 12V power cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter and run it off of the trucks electrical system?? Depending on how much current the pump motor draws, the tractor and/or atv may also have enough power to run it? Just a thought anyway.

Yes...on the tractor and ATV I use the cigarette lighter but I don't have on in the truck so I bought that power supply for $39 from HF ...I can use it for jump starting and other things as well..whereas a cigarette lighter in the truck would not have any use other than this...but good point ...you could also just use the alligator clips onto the vehicles battery..that would work too.

[moored4]

Could you not just get a 12V power cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter and run it off of the trucks electrical system?? Depending on how much current the pump motor draws, the tractor and/or atv may also have enough power to run it? Just a thought anyway.

That's what I do with mine and the riding lawn mower. I put the 15 gal. sprayer in a pull behind trailer and ran a wire to the battery terminals and ran the hand wand up so I can spot spray and never leave the seat!

[Mark Page]

You're spray set up sounds good. A more permanant solution is to pull it out of the ground with your tractor or four wheeler. I used to use Round Up which would knock it back for a year so, then it would come back. Pull it out and burn it and it's gone for ever. Those herbicides can get expensive.

[9973720wb19]

i really get a lot use out of my 15 gallon spot sprayer from Northern Equipment - for spraying fence i purchased an 18" spray handle - it's less of a reach than the handle that came with it.