- Location
- North yorks
By law a sprayer only needs testing every 3rd year, I think, ( certainly under a given farm area). I would like to think my sprayer is always in a well maintained state, and I would do a visual check round and normally test with clean water thru the boom before use every time it’s used. Can’t see the point of some parts of the test, such as measuring nozzle spacing (not exactly likely to change) and worrying about how accurate the pressure gauge is, when the sprayer works off a flow meter/rate controller ( the operator should monitor chemical used/area sprayed on every field). Even a tested sprayer is only as good as the operator.How can a sprayer MOT be a cost you attribute to Red Tractor? I would hope you would get your sprayer MOT'd every year, regardless of RT because the cost of something going wrong is significant not only for your business but your neighbours and the environment