Who makes a good one?
I'm tired of buying junk.
I've had a couple of (forget the brand, think they were Hudson) stainless steel "commercial" ones that last a couple of years at best. And to this point, I have only used them a couple of times per year. Expensive junk.
I had one here that was advertised as rated for bleach and marketed for uses other than weed spray. That one was plastic and pretty cheap.like cleaning wooden decks and such.
I don't know what ever happened to that one
I have a nice looking Sears one here probably 50 years old, has a galvanized tank that don't leak yet, but needs a rebuild. Don't know who made it for Sears.
I've been taking care of my Mom's and monster in laws yard the last several years, well my moms off n on when the intermittently dependable neighbor wouldn't... Now he's moved out and my mom's yard is mine to maintain now full time again. Plus now my kid bought a trailer he wants to rent out and at least til he gets it rented I've been drafted to maintain that yard too. So I got the idea to get a backpack style sprayer. Anyone have experience there? Who makes a good one?
I thought about getting a battery powered one, but unless I get a $400 Milwaukee one that takes the same battery as my cordless drill etc many of them the battery is built in so if it gets to where it won't take a charge no more basically it's throw away the whole thing.
I see Menards had a crap load of plastic tanked chapin brand ones for $13 on sale. Regular hand carry ones. I've paid more for spray wands before. This is a regular style 2 gallon "hand carry" one. Cheap enough I can toss them every year if need be and not lose much sleep over it.
They had 2 different battery powered ones, only one of each of those in stock. One normally on "clearance" from $99 on sale for $94 missing the tank cap.... Built in battery. Not much of a deal.
The other one they have has a similar style battery to my Milwaukee but it's their own battery that isn't apparently interchangeable with any common brand of rechargeable cordless tool ones ..... So I decided that if I'm gonna get one I'll get a manual pump up one.... Don't have a battery or motor to go bad in the first place.
Last week I saw a Stihl brand one at farm and fleet,/ but when I went to look at one closer yesterday, they didn't have any more/ and the guy in the department knew nothing that they ever had such a thing in the first place. I think he was kinda new.
So I went back to Menards and got a chapin brand backpack style hand pump up one ($80) and a $13 hand carry version.
I haven't taken either out of the box yet / if I come up with something somehow better I can still return them.
I will mostly use these for roundup for fence lines and along the edges of the house and garage to try and cut down on the amount of weed eater work I have to do. Most of the backpack style ones I have looked at are 4 gallon, I could probably spray the yards with something like that with just a couple of refills each, with something like weed b gon, but I usually use a hose end sprayer for that.
I need to spray some brush killer around the fence line at the monster in laws backyard, she's got some woody crap that I need to get rid of that becomes intertwined with the fence....
I may use whatever I get also to spray the north side of the house and garage with something to soften the moss that grows on the north wall of everything around here (why it does that I don't know) before I hit them with the power washer
I have a 20 gallon tow behind but in the kids rental to be and the monster in laws backyard are both too small to get a rider mower into in order to pull around.
What do you guys use? Any certain brands to use or not use? I talked to the lead man at the IDOT yard next to work and they don't really use hand sprayers as they do all the roadsides with a tractor and huge tank but he said he'd rather use a hand carry tank because he's seen the backpack ones leak more than not. ( No specific brands were mentioned as being worse than others but no, I don't want to take a bath in Roundup....)
They don't have any portable sprayers besides 1 hand carry style, that they keep diesel in to clean the chute on the hot box (pavement heater) after they use that to patch a pothole ...
I'm tired of buying junk.
I've had a couple of (forget the brand, think they were Hudson) stainless steel "commercial" ones that last a couple of years at best. And to this point, I have only used them a couple of times per year. Expensive junk.
I had one here that was advertised as rated for bleach and marketed for uses other than weed spray. That one was plastic and pretty cheap.like cleaning wooden decks and such.
I don't know what ever happened to that one
I have a nice looking Sears one here probably 50 years old, has a galvanized tank that don't leak yet, but needs a rebuild. Don't know who made it for Sears.
I've been taking care of my Mom's and monster in laws yard the last several years, well my moms off n on when the intermittently dependable neighbor wouldn't... Now he's moved out and my mom's yard is mine to maintain now full time again. Plus now my kid bought a trailer he wants to rent out and at least til he gets it rented I've been drafted to maintain that yard too. So I got the idea to get a backpack style sprayer. Anyone have experience there? Who makes a good one?
I thought about getting a battery powered one, but unless I get a $400 Milwaukee one that takes the same battery as my cordless drill etc many of them the battery is built in so if it gets to where it won't take a charge no more basically it's throw away the whole thing.
I see Menards had a crap load of plastic tanked chapin brand ones for $13 on sale. Regular hand carry ones. I've paid more for spray wands before. This is a regular style 2 gallon "hand carry" one. Cheap enough I can toss them every year if need be and not lose much sleep over it.
They had 2 different battery powered ones, only one of each of those in stock. One normally on "clearance" from $99 on sale for $94 missing the tank cap.... Built in battery. Not much of a deal.
The other one they have has a similar style battery to my Milwaukee but it's their own battery that isn't apparently interchangeable with any common brand of rechargeable cordless tool ones ..... So I decided that if I'm gonna get one I'll get a manual pump up one.... Don't have a battery or motor to go bad in the first place.
Last week I saw a Stihl brand one at farm and fleet,/ but when I went to look at one closer yesterday, they didn't have any more/ and the guy in the department knew nothing that they ever had such a thing in the first place. I think he was kinda new.
So I went back to Menards and got a chapin brand backpack style hand pump up one ($80) and a $13 hand carry version.
I haven't taken either out of the box yet / if I come up with something somehow better I can still return them.
I will mostly use these for roundup for fence lines and along the edges of the house and garage to try and cut down on the amount of weed eater work I have to do. Most of the backpack style ones I have looked at are 4 gallon, I could probably spray the yards with something like that with just a couple of refills each, with something like weed b gon, but I usually use a hose end sprayer for that.
I need to spray some brush killer around the fence line at the monster in laws backyard, she's got some woody crap that I need to get rid of that becomes intertwined with the fence....
I may use whatever I get also to spray the north side of the house and garage with something to soften the moss that grows on the north wall of everything around here (why it does that I don't know) before I hit them with the power washer
I have a 20 gallon tow behind but in the kids rental to be and the monster in laws backyard are both too small to get a rider mower into in order to pull around.
What do you guys use? Any certain brands to use or not use? I talked to the lead man at the IDOT yard next to work and they don't really use hand sprayers as they do all the roadsides with a tractor and huge tank but he said he'd rather use a hand carry tank because he's seen the backpack ones leak more than not. ( No specific brands were mentioned as being worse than others but no, I don't want to take a bath in Roundup....)
They don't have any portable sprayers besides 1 hand carry style, that they keep diesel in to clean the chute on the hot box (pavement heater) after they use that to patch a pothole ...
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