We just got a Ryobi pump sprayer. It’s battery-powered, and you just turn it on and hold down the sprayer control to spread whatever you want in a stream or wide spray, or anything in-between.
We got ours because we have a 650+ foot steep, wooded driveway with tent caterpillars this year.
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There is no way you can reach them, even standing in the bed of our truck, to remove them. The best we can do is hose down each caterpillar tent the spray will reach.
We just finished filling the container with bug spray and water and attaching the battery. This battery driven pump spray goes much higher and coats things much more effectively than you can do any other way.
I drove the truck slowly down one side and back up on the other finding another tent and stopping while my husband stood in the back of the truck and hosed it down with the bug spray. Even though he had to tighten some connections and adjust the spray head a couple of times, it worked as well as we could have asked. We had one WAAAAAAY up high in a tree we couldn’t reach with the stream of bug killer, but we got the rest of it done pretty well, we think.
We’ll also be able to spray liquid fertilizer, fungicide and other things.
Aren’t we lucky that technology comes to our aid just when we need it!
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