Posted by Fred Werring on August 23, 2022 at 13:32:30 from (104.218.209.79):
Had the 10ft Speidel weed wiper for years. Tried it a few times, and was never happy with it. Get on a bit of a grade, all the herbicide would run down to one end of the pipe, leaving the other end dry.
Did some reading and thinking. Put the wiper on the back of the carryall. Bought some 3/8" ID soaker hose from TSC. Rural King had these cheapo sprayers for $49. Some hose and fittings and plenty of cable ties...
First time, had the soaker hose divided up into 2.5ft sections with a t fitting in the middle, essentially a 5ft hose. Behaved like the Speidel, all the herbicide ran downhill. Replaced the t's with elbows. Soaker hose is positioned so it drips down the front of the old Speidel.
You can see the bypass from the t just below the pump. Put a needle valve in the line to the wiper to control flow. Couldn't get accurate enough flow with the ball valve, so using it for a shutoff. In hindsight, could have built a platform and maybe used gravity feed, but thats hindsight for you.
The long piece of pvc is to make a hump so gravity will even out flow between all lines. Pvc conduit "clamps" to hold the line down.
Takes 20 minutes to go through 1 gallon of water, at a steady but slow drip. Even all the way across the wiper. Just have to figure out glyphosate concentration and speed. Going to start with gallon of glyphosate to 9 gallons water, about 4mph, see how it goes.
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