Spray license

[Still Farming]

I must admit I was never any closer than 100yards to the boom sprayer when I did mine and the air blast orchard sprayer also got ticked off and that was 10 miles away. It shows it was just a box ticking exercise but from the conversation it must have been very obvious I knew what I was talking about.

I am not in favour of all these tickets everyone has to have these days but in the case of spraying it is very obvious there are a lot that have no idea what they are doing. Questions on here like "how much water do I need to spray my field and how much chemical should I put in the tank, it is a blue one?"
There was one where "Dad" always sprayed the whole field with water first so he could work out how much chemical to add before doing it again. Nothing especially wrong with that but that's not really how you do it.
Then again it is not unusual to see a contractor who presumably does have tickets spraying on the top of a hill in gale force winds, most likely at low volume and not one drop hits the field.

Your trying to say its like a car driving licence and all the nutters on the road is it?
It's all due diligence and without it ,if you claim sfp, farm assurance, hse , insurance, traceability etc your stuffed without it all.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Just play dum, probably your spray won't pass the test, l hid an old spray from farm assurance man for years. Only spray one day of the years, that thought grandfather Wright would cover me.

 

[steveR]

There was one where "Dad" always sprayed the whole field with water first so he could work out how much chemical to add before doing it again. Nothing especially wrong with that but that's not really how you do it.
Then again it is not unusual to see a contractor who presumably does have tickets spraying on the top of a hill in gale force winds, most likely at low volume and not one drop hits the field.

The former is quite acceptable, albeit a slightly long winded way of doing the job, however his accuracy should be spot on.

The latter is never acceptable, but happens far too often...

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Around that time a local contractor to me ( North Bucks then ) had a 36 metre Berthoud now that was a monster in its day. He took a lot of work which had been done by aerial contractors especially spraying off rape and late wheat fungicides. There were still a lot of crops with no tramlines then.

That wouldn't be the same farmer/contractor from over that way who had two Claas Senators welded together and a tractor made out of an old twin engined earth mover? or was he Northants?

 

[Chae1]

We have a annual refresher course on spraying related matters in Scotland for SQC. Do it through machinery ring.

 

[farmerm]

Grandad did the spraying, obviously he was under the grandfather scheme. After he died we had contractors to do it as we only had a small sprayer on a 575 and neither me nor dad know anything about the spray licenses. What is involved in getting the correct licenses and MOT?

Time and money... a modest or considerable amount of each depending on how you value either..

 

[holywell farmer]

I've done my sprayer training for handling, knapsack and boom sprayer. It is not a walk in the park but it is not difficult if you take a course, listen, revise and practise. Spray calculation sheets are usually given out on the course and are basically self explanatory. It is all the peripheral stuff, labels, legal, P.P.E, settings, servicing etc where you can get tripped up.
My examiner was pretty hard but he did cement a of lot of the stuff in my head.

Are taught to spray using GPs out of interest?

 

[Longlowdog]

@holywell farmer , not on my course. I'd say that the course was designed to instill the groundwork and ensure that technology did not replace clear thinking and understanding of the underlying principles.

 

[holywell farmer]

@holywell farmer , not on my course. I'd say that the course was designed to instill the groundwork and ensure that technology did not replace clear thinking and understanding of the underlying principles.

I be nervous about spraying myself in case crop got ruined by overlapping or missed bits.

 

[Longlowdog]

@holywell farmer I can't speak for all chemicals as I'm not an arable farmer but most have a considerable margin for error and few crops would be decimated for the sake of missed corners or odd patches. The worst that would generally happen is your neighbours would pull your leg when they saw the still green swathe after you desiccated a crop when you forgot to click start on one row. However you'd only do it once and then you'd be set for life.

 

[holywell farmer]

@holywell farmer I can't speak for all chemicals as I'm not an arable farmer but most have a considerable margin for error and few crops would be decimated for the sake of missed corners or odd patches. The worst that would generally happen is your neighbours would pull your leg when they saw the still green swathe after you desiccated a crop when you forgot to click start on one row. However you'd only do it once and then you'd be set for life.

Thanks

 

[Matthew Britton]

Tried to buy Glyphosate here from the local Cooperative. Non Monsieur- Professionals only. Produced my PA 1/2, but no good.

I had to do my photo cert to buy anything. It was far more technical than when I did my pa 1 and 2

 

[Still Farming]

As long as NOT like Gordon Gino and Fred sprayer use in Greece on tv tonight???