55 gallon drum sprayer

[hobbyfarm]

TCBoomer,
That's a great idea. I never thought of those guys.
Thanks.
phil

 

[Theowegian]

I used your idea and made a sprayer today from a 55 gallon drum.

It is working great!

Thanks, dwight

 

[alexinPA]

Bird, You seem to know a lot about roller pumps. Can you tell me why I can't find any info on suction head for a roller pump? I want to make sure I'l be able to pump water from the stream about 5-6' below. Thanks.

 

[thcri]

I don't think the roller pumps are much more than the good quality electric pump and you get much better performance. Did you make a boom for this set up also??

murph

 

[Bird]

Alex, I've taken Hypro roller pumps apart, reversed the direction of rotation, found that even a badly corroded roller pump can be pretty easily fixed if you have a sandblast cabinet to clean all the parts good, but like you, I haven't found anything to tell me what kind of suction head they can handle /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif and I've only used one where it was drawing from a tank with little or no suction necessary. So, I really can't help you this time. I would think it could pull a pretty good head if it were primed first, but that's really only a guess.

 

[PineRidge]

How do you drain and flush the plastic barrel when you are finished? Is there a bottom bung or do you invert the barrel?

 

[alexinPA]

thcri, -no, no boom. I've not got a sprayer either. Just looking for an easy way to get water from a stream.
Bird,- thanks. I remember a thread about pumping water from
a pond. The answer was not to use a roller pump... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Still like to get a definite answer before going to electric pump.

 

[Bird]

Alex, the reason for not using a roller pump to pump water from a pond may, or may not, have had anything to do with the suction head. Roller pumps are definitely for liquid only; no trash or debris at all. Even on my spray rig, there was a very fine mesh screen filter between the tank and the pump. The pump I used to pump water from a pond, impeller type pump, had what looked like a can with a bunch of holes punched in it. Those holes weren't quite as big as a common pencil, but still could have let small trash through that would not have been good at all for the roller pump. So I wouldn't hesitate to try pumping water from a pond with a roller pump if I had a really good filter on the intake hose.

 

[DelfinoTX]

Hobbyfarm, I got my plastic drum from a guy that was selling some along the highway frontage in Brownsville.
He had probably about a dozen or so. I gave him 15 bucks for a white 55 and blue 30 gal. This was about a year ago.

Good luck.

 

[DelfinoTX]

Murph, I only use a spray wand.. It'll shoot herbicide a good 20 or 30 feet if I need to. I just ride along the fence lines and shoot it from the driver seat. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif