home made sprayer???

[Pirwin21]

I recently adopted 2, 35 gallon water tanks. I would love to turn one of these into a pressurized sprayer. Is this even a remote possibility? And if it is, is it practical? Or am I better off buying one. Thanks for the insight.

 

[kthompson]

If the only part you have so far is a tank or tanks, you probably can buy a completed unit for about same as all the parts.

A question for you, are you expecting to pressurize the tank like a hand held sprayer? If so how will you do that?

 

[Pirwin21]

I was intending to use it to water a garden and was planning on putting the tank in the back of my rhino to transport it...

 

[MMagis]

For an actual sprayer, you can usually buy one for what you’ll spend to build one. But, if you just want it to water your garden, you could buy a $15 bilge pump and some hose and it should work for you. Mount the bilge as close to the bottom of the tank as you can. It won’t have a lot of pressure, but you shouldn’t need much.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I just built one this spring for my buddy who runs a mowing company. We made it out of a 30 gallon barrel. We had $40 in hose and fittings, $59 in a 2.4 gpm pump, and the rest of what we needed we had. We used 2 old mower wheels and a old bed frame to make the chassis. It has a 12' side spray pattern and will spray 1 acre per tank with the mix he uses. I welded it all up for him for $50. Works great but like the others said if you did not have a lot of the stuff laying around you could just by one cheaper.

Chris

 

[Iplayfarmer]

The pump is probably going to be the most expensive part. If you have a pump or if you can find one cheap, it might be worth the effort.

 

[PineRidge]

If you want a decent sprayer you can build one for a lot less money and have what you need the most. We used whatever we had on hand and only purchased what we didn't.

Here is a sprayer that we built a few years back. We even made the foam marker for it.

I say if you are handy with tools "go for it"

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I just re-built a sprayer last night to spray roundup on the old pasture in preparation for putting in a community garden. (I'm not too late for a garden yet since we just had frost again this morning.) I had bought a sprayer off a guy earlier this spring, but it wasn't in great shape. The hose was only about 4 feet long, the spray gun looks like it was left over the winter and split from freezing, and the pump wasn't wired to anything.

I hooked an old air hose (brass fittings) to the barbed fitting coming off the pump. I used a ball valve and an old nozzle from I-don't-know-what on the end of the hose to be a spray gun, and I wired the pump to some alligator clips from a broken battery charger so I could hook it to a spare battery. I put it all in my dump cart and set out to wreak death and destruction on all unwanted vegetation.

Total build time = 15 minutes. Total cost = $40 to the guy for the broken sprayer (he threw in an extra pump too). Everything else was stuff I should have thrown away years ago, but I just knew that I'd use it someday. If I'd had to buy all the parts new, it would have been cheaper to just go buy a ready-made sprayer.

My wife says there'll be no living with me now that I finally found a use for a hundredth of a percent of the junk that I probably should have thrown away.

 

[nybirdman]

If you are just going to water,why do you need a pump.I use a 55 gal.drum and a gravity system on the rhino.$20.00 worth of plastic pipe and a free drum.I am going to build a similar set-up for round-up with a pump.