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After looking around and not seeing what I wanted, or could afford, I built my own. I had an old trailer that was the right size for a 300 gallon tote. My first attempt was with a cheap 12 volt pump that I power from a cigarette lighter. I plug it in and it starts spraying, I pull it out to turn it off. I also started out with folding booms that went out 8 feet. I put a sprayer tip on the end of each boom, and one in the middle. I was able to spray a lot of area at once, but I kept hitting things with the booms and finally gave up on that idea. Now I just have a single pipe across the back and two spray nozzles. That's lasted years without any issues.
The second mistake I made was not getting the right type of pump for a hand sprayer to do fence lines. I added that hand sprayer last year after getting horses and wanting to maintain their fenced area. It's a lot better then the hand pump sprayers that I use for round up!!! Once I had the right pump on it, everything has worked great!!!!
You should notice that there are some blocks under the tote. It has to be at a big angle to get all the liquid to flow out. This leads to other issues, like keeping it on the trailer. Recently I noticed that the pallet the tank is mounted to has cracked in the middle. I'll add support there so it doesn't break completely.
I think the best part is having it be a trailer. I can pull it with my tractor or the Mule. The tractor is better because I have more power and I can maintain the perfect speed regardless of terrain. The Mule isn't very good at maintaining a slow speed like the tractor, so I only use it for small jobs. But when the bush hog is hooked up to the tractor, it's nice to use the Mule and not have to deal with disconnecting the bush hog and then hooking it up again when I'm done spraying. I'm lazy like that!!!
I remember that project Eddie! In fact I am the one who gave you the idea of the plastic tank. We have many many of those plastic tanks in the south of France, Mills when they run out of Stainless Steel Vats use those tanks, I think they are 1,000 liter tanks. And they are nice because they have a spigot on them for drawing off the olive oil, or fruit juice. They are all food grade plastic and food grade faucets. Also used for example, a small farmer wants the mill to keep their oil for them so that they can use the mills equipment to bottle, but the mill isn't going to give up one of their HUGE stainless steel tanks for one farmer's small quantity of oil so one of these tanks is used. They are very nice because they are all palleted and you can move them with a lift truck or like us a hand lift truck. We have them as left over equipment from when we bought the business. We never used them we bought stainless steel vats.
I'll throw out another use for them. Our back neighbor comes over, he built a beautiful home a few years ago, and he was thinking what if he would ever have to have his septic tank pumped, the trucks are to big for his back roads, he wanted to know if he could pump his sewage into the spayer tank on the 3PH, my husband would drive it down the narrow back road where the septic truck would be waiting and suck it out. As you can imagine that was not appealing to us at all. So I suggested we have 4 of these 1,000 liter tanks, put it on a trailer, pump into the tank while it is on the trailer then ull the trailored tank wherever you want it. He doesn't need it now, but actually he liked the idea as a backup plan for the future.
I remember Eddie giving you the idea for the tank.
You can find the tanks used cheap. Maybe this will give others an idea.
We gave one away to our neighbor, he needed a new liner for his swimming pool, so he pumped the pool water into one of these tanks, got the new liner in, then pumped the water back in the pool.
