Sprayer MOT

Selectamatic

Member
Location
North Wales
Hello everyone...

I've heard that there is new crop sprayer legislation coming being introduced, where the sprayer is effectively given an MOT style test by NSTS every year.

Now then, without starting a riot that I am a irresponsible pikey, can someone tell me the ins and outs of this please?

Is it compulsory? If it is, how is it policed, I doubt plod is going to come wading across my thistle infested field looking at my anti drip nozzles?

In essence, If I go out and buy a sprayer, and use it without bothering with an MOT, who will get offended by this, and what will happen to me?
 
Taken from an FAS email with a link to the blurb.

If you're not FA then in a nutshell this is what you have to do to comply with the law:

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Regulatory Measures

11.3 The PPP (SU) Regulations 2012 require all users of pesticide application equipment to ensure it is inspected: once before 26 November 2016; at intervals of no more than 5 years until 2020; and at intervals of no more than 3 years thereafter. New equipment must be inspected within 5 years of the date of purchase. Only equipment that has passed inspection must be in use after 26 November 2016.


https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...1746005/Nov2016&dm_i=DA4,4LY3V,N4SBWA,H5265,1
 

JWL

Member
Location
Hereford
I'd have loved to have been around if the NSTS had come to do an MoT on the old acid sprayer I used to use for dessicating potato haulm with 77% Sulphuric acid. It was an early SAM self propelled machine based an a Daisy Brown 2wd with a forward control cab. I was lucky to come out of a field with everything still attached let alone an odd dripping nozzle. The only glass left in the cab was the windscreen as the acid had eaten all the rubber seals on the rest of them, we did have bits of perspex to help divert some of the spray drift off yourself. It was an absolute witch of a machine especially when spraying on a roasting day dressed in just your boxers under the black spraysuit with the hood up and your gauntlet nitrile gloves. I swear I used to lose a stone through sweat covering 1000acres!
 

farmer phil

Member
Location
Derby, uk
If you are unlucky enough to have it tested on a day when it is raining as I was the tester can't see the leaks.
So is this a good thing or a bad thing? We have upgraded our sprayer this autumn but previously I always thought that an annual test was no bad thing as it was a small price to pay considering the value of stuff that goes through it, purely really to get some basic checks done on the machine. I know folk will say that they are checks farmer phil can do himself but these things always get put off till tomorrow, and then the day after, and so on. So long as the firms doing the tests are realistic with the costs I think they are a good idea. Tin hat on...................
 

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