Message Board - Golf: mixing tank
17 Feb 2010 by glenkeeran
Hi all
I am starting to look for a good mixing tank for mixing ferrous sulphate amounts other souble fertiliser products.... can any of you gentlemen/ladies advise me on the best ones out there, many thanks again!!!
Regards
Brian
everything happens for a reason
17 Feb 2010 by jontaylor
I do it in 5L clear plastic brewing demijohns. I disolve 2kg at a time in about 4L total volume. 4kg is my base does for the cricket square, so 2 demijohns.
I use this route as iron sulphate is fairly slow to disolve and the clear plastic allows good visibility of the state of the solution.
If you only have small amounts (<10kg) of iron sulphate to disolve then this route is fine. If you're going for larger quantities then you may be looking at mechanical stirrers in bigger tanks.......over to the other guys.
The ciderman rolls
17 Feb 2010 by Ken Barber
I am assuming you are still on serious budget cuts over there.......In days gone by when I had a decent budget I bought a 1000lt mixing tank that had a transfer pump on top.
But now I use a 200lt plastic drum with the top cut off. I add my product then fill the tank with a hose connected to my irrigation system. The pressure from the hose fill the 200lt tank and disolves the product in seconds because of the pressure. I then transfer it to my spray tank with an electric submersible pump, which again takes less than a minute to transfer it to my spray tank.
If I am spraying my greens with say, 10kg/ha of fe, I split it up into 3 buckets and using a 4th bucket, transfer it back and fourth into buckets until it has desolved.
I never have a problem with blocked nozzles.
KB
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17 Feb 2010 by glenkeeran
Hi Ken
Yeah things are very tight but thankfully with carefull planning we have been ok so far but again the growing season hasnt started yet. :(
thank you and Jon for the helpfull advice
Regards
Brian
everything happens for a reason
18 Feb 2010 by turfjack
Brian
If you're looking for it just to dissolve some fertilizer, try melting it in a bucket using hot water, I've had good success with using it on stubborn fertiliser in the past.
There are a few companies making them but I've looked into it and building my own to my own specs seems more cost effective (by picking the parts up from an ag supplier), I just haven't gotten around to it yet....
Alan FitzGerald, LedgeRock Golf Club
18 Feb 2010 by Martin Williams
For large areas I use an old 200lt sprayer tank fitted with a 1 inch Honda centrifugal pump and large filter and 3 way valve. Using this you can agitate, add the iron or fertiliser and then pump the filtered solution into your sprayer. If only doing a hectare or so I add the iron SLOWLY through the induction hopper with the rinse turner on. Clean filters and flush sprayer well after use. There does not seem to be the impurities in soluble iron that there used to. We used Headland iron, it dissolves fairly easily. Hope this helps
21 Feb 2010 by glenkeeran
Thanks martin/alan for your advise!!!
ps..... Alan after googling ledgerock golf club "Whow", is that where u manage?
Regards Brian
everything happens for a reason
22 Feb 2010 by turfjack
Yep!
Alan FitzGerald, LedgeRock Golf Club
22 Feb 2010 by glenkeeran
any chance of a job...lol!!!
everything happens for a reason
22 Feb 2010 by turfjack Last edited 22 Feb 2010
lol! It can't be that bad over there! Hopefully the economy over there will start to pick up soon as we're slowly starting to see it picking up here, now if only the snow would go away.....
Alan FitzGerald, LedgeRock Golf Club
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