Applying hypo

[Mr Anderson]

Gardiner sell a spray lance to use with its backpack
https://gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/backpack-sprayer-lance-kit-and-5m-of-hose.html

They melt though. Made the mistake of using one for the same purpose. Unless I had a dodgy one.

 

[Mr Anderson]

Gardiner’s back pack will be fine for hypo provided you flush it out well with water after we got at least 3 years out of them , but it will invalidate the warranty

Three years? Mine lasted 4 months and it was flushed out religiously straight after use with pure water from my van's tank.

 

[Herm]

Pole hose just pushes into the narrow end .

ah! so the hose literally just pushes over the end with the black end? I just couldn't work out how it would work like that. I'm off to try it, thanks

 

[Pjj]

ah! so the hose literally just pushes over the end with the black end? I just couldn't work out how it would work like that. I'm off to try it, thanks

I think it is a bit like a John guest fitting with a stainless steel gripper ring

 

[Pjj]

Three years? Mine lasted 4 months and it was flushed out religiously straight after use with pure water from my van's tank.

Yes minimum of 3 years we have never had any issues with them .

 

[Herm]

Yes minimum of 3 years we have never had any issues with them .

you must be very lucky lol, I've had mine 5 months used for soft washing and already the switch is starting to play up and stops pumping whilst in use. Think I'm going to put in a new chemical pump and hopefully sort out why it keeps cutting in and out.

 

[Pjj]

you must be very lucky lol, I've had mine 5 months used for soft washing and already the switch is starting to play up and stops pumping whilst in use. Think I'm going to put in a new chemical pump and hopefully sort out why it keeps cutting in and out.

We don’t use them now but when we did they were fine. A quick flush with fresh water never had any problems with them and they were used several times a week with strong mixes we only moved onto trolley s as they would apply the mix much quicker , I wouldn’t have any issues recommending them for softwashing I know it invalidates the warranty but at £120 a go for 3 years use at least that’s very cheap and doing jobs for £450 a go minimum one job pays for it and still plenty of profit .

 

[Herm]

We don’t use them now but when we did they were fine. A quick flush with fresh water never had any problems with them and they were used several times a week with strong mixes we only moved onto trolley s as they would apply the mix much quicker , I wouldn’t have any issues recommending them for softwashing I know it invalidates the warranty but at £120 a go for 3 years use at least that’s very cheap and doing jobs for £450 a go minimum one job pays for it and still plenty of profit .

so type of system are you using now for softwasing fella?

 

[Pjj]

so type of system are you using now for softwasing fella?

We have 3 nano trolly they are very good

 

[Dave B]

You could knock this up for the same price as a backpack
Shove the feed hose in a drum of mixed hypo and crack on
Doesn’t have to leave the van
Took 15 minutes to build this when I needed it for a job with someone helping me hence the 2 pumps
Just make sure it includes a fuse in the build
Also doubles up as emergency wfp system

Did this today with that little setup
Took couple of minutes to apply
Let it dwell while I did back windows then rinsed with pw with black tip