- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
As title really. Does one NEED a correct certificate to use a knapsack around the farm?
My memory fails me
My memory fails me
Need a qualification for knapsack?
- Thread starter Zippy768
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bracken basher
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- Location
- Gwynedd
Yes PA1 and PA6 Qualification.
YorkshireAndrew
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- Location
- West / North Yorks border
Who’s to know you’re using one ? (Asking for a friend) . [emoji849]
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Maybe Mr R Tractor??
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
So to be clear: -
If I use a knapsack with a generic roundup product around the farm, I need a certificate?
But if I use my own in my garden, I don't?
Np grandfather rights anymore?
tullah
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- Location
- Linconshire
The sooner jo public has to go and give up a day to pass a test to kill a wasps nest or a few weeds the better. Why do we farmers attract all this craap.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Correct in that there are no grandfather rights any more. Incorrect in thinking you can spray your garden with the same product without qualifications. To do so would mean using the products you can buy in the garden centre, which are more dilute and cost about 10x what the ‘professional’ products do.
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
I think that Agricultural roundup is only to be used as such, and cannot be used in a domestic situation. A grey area as far as farms are concerned, but that is the regs.
- Location
- East Sussex
Simple answer is that you don’t do it
I suspect you can’t even use the consumer versions in a commercial environment either without having the tickets.
I suspect you can’t even use the consumer versions in a commercial environment either without having the tickets.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
But surely, if I was to get a knapsack sprayer, it would need checking and certifying every year, wouldn't it?
I think I shall continue weeding by hand as I usually do. Far less complicated.
I think I shall continue weeding by hand as I usually do. Far less complicated.
- Location
- northumberland
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
livestock 1
Member
Hardest job is finding someone to use it!
There’s a new one here
3 years old brand new
There’s a new one here
3 years old brand new
This. If it's as a professional operator i.e. you're doing it as part of your business, you need these. For Red Tractor you'll need records of calibration & inspection too. The rules don't apply to domestic users simply because no one would ever take any notice of them & the home stuff is much more dilute. And expensive.
livestock 1
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You need records calibration etc for rpa too
- Location
- south norfolk
This is rubbish and i dont care what anyone says.i can go to b and q or homebase,screwfix,machine mart etc and get one like any member of the public and put chemical through it with no qualifications what so ever.most people can get hold of a bit of glyphosate from a friendly farmer too.why are the general public exempt and we get fleeced for qualifications which are basically common sense.ill get my hard hat on now.
Nick...
Nick...
livestock 1
Member
Not cheap either £600 + per licence here
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
That is for the training?
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
What if one already has a pa1 and pa2?
I know it won't make a difference to the need of a licence but it might to the cost/days to gain qualy
I know it won't make a difference to the need of a licence but it might to the cost/days to gain qualy