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A Simple Low Volume Laboratory Research Spray System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Robert A. Campbell ,
James E. Wood ,
E. Garth Mitchell ,
John Studens  and
Robert G. Wagner
Robert A. Campbell
Affiliation:
For. Pest Manage. Inst., Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 5M7
James E. Wood
Affiliation:
Great Lakes For. Cent., Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 5M7
E. Garth Mitchell
Affiliation:
Great Lakes For. Cent., Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 5M7
John Studens
Affiliation:
For. Pest Manage. Inst., Box 969, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 5N5
Robert G. Wagner
Affiliation:
Ont. For. Res. Inst., Box 969, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 5N5
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Abstract

Commercially available cabinet sprayers are not well suited for making low volume applications (<30 L/ha) of herbicides to woody forest species that can be up to 1.5 m tall. A simple, inexpensive laboratory sprayer that overcomes some limitations of commercial cabinet sprays can be built from materials readily available at local building and electronic suppliers. The only specialized equipment required is a positive displacement pump and a rotary disk atomizer. The atomizer is attached to the end of a variable height arm mounted on a laboratory cart. A positive displacement pump ensures controlled flow. The operator pushes the cart along a metal rub rail which keeps the cart tracking in a straight line. Travel speed is regulated by the operator following a marker on a clothesline-like loop of fishing line and is driven by a variable-speed drill attached to a variable voltage power supply.

Keywords

Herbicide applicationforestryrotary disk atomizerwoody plant bioassaysCDAULV
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 87 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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