Sprays And Their Cans 2018/19 Season

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
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Lincolnshire
You know it. You love it.

I nominate whichever nob at Rotam thought that this extra bundled plastic device was a good idea. It isn't. For the few times I don't pour six tubs of product in, I have a £10 set of digital scales to use. This is single use plastic at its very worst.
 

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teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
What in the fudge is ergon?

You don't half use some weird stuff.

It's a su. Metsulfuron plus thifensulfuron or tribenuron on something like that. Used three different rotam Sus this season and they keep bringing these bloody things. Fancy but not very accurate and just a product of unnecessary overcomplication.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
The first Starane Hi Load I used was in plain 10lt cans. Not with the stupid green collar on. I’m unsure whether to put it in the recycle cans bin or the tops bin? Pita!
The looped handles are handy but certainly not essential and always get caught on the can rinsers - annoying when putting a few in per tank load.

All cardboard/washed cans/clean & dry fertiliser bags etc all go landfill here, even when you argue with the guy on the weighbridge that the 24ft silage trailer is full of dry clean plastic they still tip it on landfill.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Are these the 10lt starane hi load? I just find the big honeypot is a on the cusp of being too wide for my induction hopper.

Also, is there some reason why Ascara Xpro comes in an opaque 5lt Bayer can with a foil, rather than the (wonderful, benchmark setting) aviator 5lt clear foilless Bayer can?
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
The
Absolute
f**k

Does nobody at these companies understand about single use plastic? The rotam box is designed to hold ten X 500g packs of chem and ten stupid measuring devices. The box is 30x25x45cm approx. So five kilos of product, or 50ha at full dose in a space that could fit close to fifteen kilos in. I put close to one box in per sprayer tank, that would fit in a 3kg Bayer monolith tub.

Also, Dow green things. Anyone care to explain why that's better than the old ten litre tubs? Surely it can't be to accommodate the "Handle Of Hatred" we all dislike?
 

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David.

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Mixed Farmer
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J11 M40
My turd on a stick award for this week goes to the makers of Abringo CTL.
Square 10 litre can with recessed neck, just to make sure that to get a litre out, you have to glug it out, and then the trickle as you stop pouring runs down the side of the can to get all over your hands when you invert the can next load, on the can washer.
 
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teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I still consider the five litre Bayer cans to be the best.....but why aviator comes in translucent and foil less (good) and another sdhi possibly ascra comes in opaque with a foil I dont know.
 

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