Cleaning grain stores

[Alistair Nelson]

We’ve always swept and sprayed out our stores with actelic, but always heard all this chat about smoke bombs which would obviously get into the roof better? Are they any good? What are they and where do you get them from?

Thank you

Alistair

 

[JD6920s]

We’ve always swept and sprayed out our stores with actelic, but always heard all this chat about smoke bombs which would obviously get into the roof better? Are they any good? What are they and where do you get them from?

Thank you

Alistair

Actellic do them, so same place you get the liquid from

 

[Surgery]

We’ve always swept and sprayed out our stores with actelic, but always heard all this chat about smoke bombs which would obviously get into the roof better? Are they any good? What are they and where do you get them from?

Thank you

Alistair

not worth using as it Disperses too quickly , if you have an air tunnel and you can seal it air tight maybe but better using liquid

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

not worth using as it Disperses too quickly , if you have an air tunnel and you can seal it air tight maybe but better using liquid

Would you stick them under the floor or in the tunnel to make it hang around longer?

 

[Steevo]

I like them. Have used them for a few years now and find they work well.

 

[Surgery]

Would you stick them under the floor or in the tunnel to make it hang around longer?

Possibly as the smoke will stay down in more concentration than higher but still better soaking with residual insecticide

 

[Spud]

I use them in strategic places - bottom of the elevator pit, base of the dryer - the places not easily accessible with liquid. As you say the roof also gets a coating. Shut the doors and use a few - make sure there's a few people about when you light them, so they're all away together before you get smoked out. Inform the neighbours so they don't think your shed is on fire!

 

[Brisel]

I use K Obiol for the walls & floors, then follow up with Actellic smoke generators to finish the job. The smoke gets into places we may have missed with liquid. Any bugs in the roof will fall onto the treated floor.

 

[T Hectares]

I use them after the stores been cleaned and sprayed, I’ve always worked on the assumption that there’s a small amount of ai in them so the aim is to smoke/stun any insects to fall onto the treated and still wet floor

 

[Flat 10]

I use them after the stores been cleaned and sprayed, I’ve always worked on the assumption that there’s a small amount of ai in them so the aim is to smoke/stun any insects to fall onto the treated and still wet floor

As you say and so does the label. Not particularly cheap

 

[Spencer]

As above always use them as a follow up treatment straight after spraying all walls and floors with K-Obiol

 

[WillYorkshire]

We’ve always swept and sprayed out our stores with actelic, but always heard all this chat about smoke bombs which would obviously get into the roof better? Are they any good? What are they and where do you get them from?

Thank you

Alistair

Your agchem supplier Alistair. We blow down then wash walls and floor, then smoke.

 

[T Hectares]

As you say and so does the label. Not particularly cheap

Good fun letting them off though !
It’s like setting off a flare to signify the start to harvest

 

[Spencer]

Good fun letting them off though !
It’s like setting off a flare to signify the start to harvest

Rather underwhelming I always think

 

[thorpe]

i thought actellic was a thing of th past!

 

[T Hectares]

Rather underwhelming I always think

You are clearly not setting enough off
This is how we do ours

 

[Spencer]

You are clearly not setting enough off
This is how we do ours

Ahhh so your happy with our new leader Comrade

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Look at this;

K-Othrine Partix

www.uk.envu.com

SS

 

[DieselRob]

I used phobi smoke bombs this year which are cypermetherin and about 25% cheaper than actellic. Seem to have had a good kill.

As others have said, you’re instructed to spray the floors then set the bombs off

 

[Magnus Oyke]

Aren't the bombs just an irritant that drives the bugs to treated areas?