Sprayer shed - Empty containers

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Farming Forward

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Location
Shropshire
Hello,

Does anybody have some good suggestions for empty spray containers, lids, cardboard?

I’d like to have something which is tidy and has plenty of storage. What do most people use? IBC cages with empty feet bag tied inside?

Any ideas/picture/tips would be appreciate.

thank you
 
Zippy768

Zippy768

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
Steevo said:
Snap.

Chemical gets delivered.
Spray the fields.
Put the empty cans back in the spray tank to stay dry and clean.
Same day or next dry day, squash them with the tractor wheels.
Load them into the loader bucket.
Put them in the bin.

Job done. Yard looks tidy(er) again.
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I use to run the tractor wheel over the cans. Would end up with a huge amount to do at once as would be too busy to do during the season.
Instead i now give the can one good stamp (with both feet if a 10 litre) straight after 3x rinse and into the waiting seed bag. Bag dragged back into shed once finished for the day.
I admit they could be more squashed but its the best way for me to tidy as I go - or else I'd just let them stack up over the season.

Admittedly I do have a stack of empty Glyphosate cans that don't flatten with a "two-footer". But it's odd how they never really multiple and people nick em for water or diesel
 
Robert K

Robert K

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Farming Forward said:
Hello,

Does anybody have some good suggestions for empty spray containers, lids, cardboard?

I’d like to have something which is tidy and has plenty of storage. What do most people use? IBC cages with empty feet bag tied inside?

Any ideas/picture/tips would be appreciate.

thank you
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Solway bin and bags from the local chemical recycling firm

Clean tidy and easy to throw it in when busy spraying
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Bobthebuilder

Bobthebuilder

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
northumberland
Got similar to the solway bin, home made out of stock board no lid but kept in the store, cans are on a drip rack after filling/washing out then put into bin, place we take them doesn’t like them crushed, use the same bin and liner system for silage wrap and net/string but squash that down with a 600kg bag of fert
 
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