Knapsack stored in spray store or not.

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
You just need to show evidence of calibration. No need for NSTS if it's less than 3m working width. My RT inspector wasn't worried about the knapsack living in the spray store last year.
 

B'o'B

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
If I recall rightly application equipment is okay stored in a farm store, but not considered best practice, but I’m not really sure why.
I think BASIS registered stores aren’t allowed to have any application equipment stored in them, which is where the confusion arises on farm.
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
Hello.

I haven't got a knapsack sprayer.

Goodbye.
Its a bit like oh have you got a Moisture Meter to test Grain if so when was it last tested which is often but not always a cost yearly.
Err i havnt got one of them...
Move onto next question.

This whole Farm assurance thing is nuts & half of it totally unnecessary but just more leaches to take something more off our bottom line.
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
Hand on Heart if i did not have to be in any Grain Assurance scheme i wouldnt be.
Save me £300 a year just on there fees alone not too mention the various things poss totaling £500 a year to conform annually also.
but none of this RED TAPE would make a single bit of difference to the Grain i produce & sell from this Farm each year.
It would be no diff whatsoever as all my practices would be 100% the same as now.
Nothing would be any diff too the quality & safety of The Grains that leave this farm.
Job Public just think its all the best it can be because i tick lots of boxes in a grain assurance scheme.
What did they think we ere all doing any diff before hand
Nothing thats what. It was every bit as good & safe
 

tullah

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Linconshire
If he spots the dead weeds along wall of the grainstore he's going to wonder where your knapsack is. So keep a cheap legit b and q one litre squirter on show in the chemical store together with a litre of gardeners b and q glyphosate on show. Don't need a pa course for that surely.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
If he spots the dead weeds along wall of the grainstore he's going to wonder where your knapsack is. So keep a cheap legit b and q one litre squirter on show in the chemical store together with a litre of gardeners b and q glyphosate on show. Don't need a pa course for that surely.
:unsure:
Strimmer. Drought. Pished on them, etc, etc......

I most definitely do not have a knapsack sprayer. Come to think of it, I might be organic, store my crops in a grain Co Op...... :unsure: actually maybe I don't even grow crops at all.:unsure: No wait, I work as a waitress in a cocktail bar, why am I even bothering with Red Tractor......?‍♂️
 
If he spots the dead weeds along wall of the grainstore he's going to wonder where your knapsack is. So keep a cheap legit b and q one litre squirter on show in the chemical store together with a litre of gardeners b and q glyphosate on show. Don't need a pa course for that surely.

You use a watering can just like every other home owner. Here, this is the glyphosate product you got from B and Q for it.

Calibrate an fing knapsack, JHC!
 

Hesstondriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Huntingdon
If he spots the dead weeds along wall of the grainstore he's going to wonder where your knapsack is. So keep a cheap legit b and q one litre squirter on show in the chemical store together with a litre of gardeners b and q glyphosate on show. Don't need a pa course for that surely.
Those gas burner things do a good job and lease dead weeds don’t they ??
 

mo!

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
York
If he spots the dead weeds along wall of the grainstore he's going to wonder where your knapsack is. So keep a cheap legit b and q one litre squirter on show in the chemical store together with a litre of gardeners b and q glyphosate on show. Don't need a pa course for that surely.
Yes you do. Of course you do. Why would you possibly think that you wouldn't? Every other place of work would need one to be legal why wouldn't yours? Oh, I forgot, basic safety rules don't apply to farmers.

Silly me.
 

Bogweevil

Member
Yes you do. Of course you do. Why would you possibly think that you wouldn't? Every other place of work would need one to be legal why wouldn't yours? Oh, I forgot, basic safety rules don't apply to farmers.

Silly me.

No you don't, but you will need a coshh assesment.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
We go through this same f**king ritual on every thread on TFF.
Someone turns up with " Why should farming be any different from other industries ? "?
Someone points out that we're the only industry to accept 1970's prices. :cool:
Then someone tries to be a smartarse pointing out that iron ore is the same price as it is in the 1970's.?
Then, the cherry on the dog turd ( or as I like to call it, the coup de grace de arseholeness ).....
Someone turns up to say " If you don't like it, get another career ".

Wow that's helpful.?‍♂️
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
We go through this same fudgeing ritual on every thread on TFF.
Someone turns up with " Why should farming be any different from other industries ? "?
Someone points out that we're the only industry to accept 1970's prices. :cool:
Then someone tries to be a smartarse pointing out that iron ore is the same price as it is in the 1970's.?
Then, the cherry on the dog turd ( or as I like to call it, the coup de grace de arseholeness ).....
Someone turns up to say " If you don't like it, get another career ".

Wow that's helpful.?‍♂️
Ive often had that view expressed just ignore them now.
Everyone has to Eat end of.
Luxury items like 5 star hols or Chelsea Tractors are as such Luxury neither a necessity or 2nd homes even.
 

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