Weed wiping questions
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Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
That would be my opinion. I have read that you should not use glypho any stronger than 1 part glypho to 2 parts water and that was for painting stumps. Injecting uses it neat as presumably it dilutes down with the sap.
The manual on my Rotowiper recommended 20:1 which I used for the first couple of seasons before changing to 40:1 which I have used since. I keep the roller very wet so it drips about 10 seconds after I stop. If I have to stop I do so in the thickest clump of whatever I'm wiping.
Drips are not like spray mist, a drip only hits one or two leaves on the way down and cannot be found after a few days.
As for wheel marks, I've never found any. I have seen them on a neighbours field where the contractor started at the gate and then drove back across the worked area after finishing. Couldn't see them after a fortnight tho'.
If I'm working where there are anthills then the roller does hit the top of them and they go grey for a few weeks. I'm not sure if that's good or bad!
Edlington recommends 50-50.... But that is a pad wick machine and uses a hydrostat to regulate solution flow very accurately. No drips.
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
I have seen on another thread people talking about 1:1 and 2 and 3:1 when using wipers which is about as far removed from my 40:1 as is possible to be. If my rate works, which it does, I don't see why one would use anything stronger. Maybe I see little collateral damage for that reason.
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- NI
Is it a completely daft idea to apply glyphosate on rushes with a knapsack? Not keen on mcpa
Well the Contractor working for the Solar Farm company up until this year used a quad and lance to apply Roundup, he also sprayed out great chunks of pasture... I have sprayed rushes with a tight nozzle, and accepted the loss of a bit of grass around the clump.
Can leave stock in the field too...
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- Ceredigion
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- NI
Any tips? Mix ratio etc? Is there much grass lost and does it properly get rid of the rush?
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- The moon
300ml (of the 360g) / 16L ( add rape seed oil or wetter). Cant kill something too much can you?
Nae bother
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Which weed wiper would be the best one to buy?is buying a second hand one a waste of time?got a peat moss with plenty rushes with plenty grass,sprayed before with mcpa with tractor sprayer but it's wet and when you get stuck you're proper stuck.
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- Ceredigion
Logic
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- Ceredigion
Nothing will get rid completely due to seed in the soil but it does work if done well
From the sounds of it, a unit that will go behind a quad would be useful?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Chapman make a very similar design to the Logic, with a contra-rotating brush (or carpet roller). It’s well built but considerably cheaper.
Weed Wiper W240 - Chapman Machinery
A unique electric drive system eliminates dripping due to over-saturation and ensures consistent application and killing of weed
chapman.co.uk
I bought one on the basis of price, and that the roller is driven by a 12v motor, rather than ground driven, so it rotates at the same speed however fast you drive, or when you stop at gateways, reducing dripping & flicking. It’s an improvement over the Logic design imo.
Tried it for the first time yesterday, so waiting to see how effective the method is....
Chapman make a very similar design to the Logic, with a contra-rotating brush (or carpet roller). It’s well built but considerably cheaper.
Weed Wiper W240 - Chapman Machinery
A unique electric drive system eliminates dripping due to over-saturation and ensures consistent application and killing of weed
I bought one on the basis of price, and that the roller is driven by a 12v motor, rather than ground driven, so it rotates at the same speed however fast you drive, or when you stop at gateways, reducing dripping & flicking. It’s an improvement over the Logic design imo.
Tried it for the first time yesterday, so waiting to see how effective the method is....
Nice to be able to apply herbicide and not worry about the wind too... but did you miss the storms?
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- Montgomeryshire
We did yesterday afternoon. The wind died down too, so much so that we had Fibrophos spread on 50ac of grass yesterday evening. He only got one dog walker too.
mghley
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- Location
- Derbyshire
My nephew has a Logic weed wiper which I think he is looking to sell, purchased a couple of years ago and done next to nothing as not needed for job purchased for.
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
I can reply to my own message now I have had the PA2f instruction. The 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 ratios are for wick wipers where there are no moving parts.
'New Generation' wipers (says on the label) should use 1:10, 1:20 etc.. These are rotating ones with brush or carpet mechanism.
That clears that up.
daithi
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I have just bought myself a Chapman weed wiper, I went out today to do some nettles and rushes. The problem with the clumps of nettles is there is too much grass growing through them and I don't want to kill it with glyphosate. So does any one put MCPA, Starane or forefront through their wiper and at what rate?.
Thanks
Thanks
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