Spray Unit Trials by Jake Prosser

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:06:15 +0000

The spray trials went well. It gave a good idea on how different the three sprayers worked, I have no affiliation with any of them, I’m just going by what I saw today. My opinion is

1: GreenTec: This was properly the most inefficient sprayer on the days, it did fail to penetrate the outer canopy, leaving most of the inside and between canopies untouched. It also left gapes in the spray coverage, between the top and middle fan. If I had to rate it out of 10, it rate around 4/ 10 as a citrus sprayer. The cost of this unit is way over the top

4/ 10

2: Croplands: The Croplands was slightly better then the GreenTec, but it also struggled to penetrate the outer canopy. Fruit just inside the outer canopy was still dry. As a foliar sprayer it would be fine but the insect we need to target is Red Scale and good inside canopy coverage is a must. The cost was also over the top.

5/10

3: Interlink: The interlink was in my opinion, by far the stand out sprayer on the day, even though its inside canopy coverage was not perfect, its was very close. I sat inside the tree canopy and let all three spray units spray over me, so I could see inside canopy coverage, and the interlink was by far the better sprayer. The power of those fans was incredible. Two of my growers have ordered a unit each, today. The price of this unit was fairly reasonable.

8/10

Cheers

Jake Prosser

Protec Monitoring Services in Mildura

Tuesday, 29 March 2011.