hi guys, i've been on lawnsite for 2 years now, in business 3.5 years now. i have ~40 residential mowing accounts.. this spring i decided to go into fert n squirt as well, i dont have my license yet, but i am subbing out all the spraying this season, doing the fert myself, trying to get alot of customers until next spring when they finally offer the spray test again..
just looking for a few pointers.. my lawns fall between 5-15k in size, right now i have 10 fert/squirt customers but i havent even added it to all my advertising materials yet.. that'll be next spring.
im thinking 2 backpack sprayers should work for my first year.. should i get engine driven ones ? are the hand pump ones a pain in the butt to spot spay all my lawns 3 times a year?
i was thinking either 2 backpacks, or a pack and a synergy .. worried about drift with the synergy though. and a 120 gal truck tank just to refill the backpacks.
also, i want to be spraying low volumes, i noticed that trimec is the only one that says you can put down as little as 1/2 gal per ksqft .. i only want maybe a 120 gal tank in the back of my truck max... so low volume is key.. how does that work? is it ok to mix stuff like speedzone stronger and only spray 1/2 gal per thousand sq. ft.? or is that volume needed?
would you say having trimec classic as my standard chem is a good (cheap!) desicion??
and speedzone for hard to kill stuff?
any other suggestions? i plan to max out at 150 fert/squirt customers, so would this be a reasonable set up? it will be a 5 app fert with 3 spot sprays w/trimec classic.. me and one employee, him with the fert, me with the backpack..
any suggestions or comments on my ideas, or the feasibility of my herbicide choice and application method?
thanks
just looking for a few pointers.. my lawns fall between 5-15k in size, right now i have 10 fert/squirt customers but i havent even added it to all my advertising materials yet.. that'll be next spring.
im thinking 2 backpack sprayers should work for my first year.. should i get engine driven ones ? are the hand pump ones a pain in the butt to spot spay all my lawns 3 times a year?
i was thinking either 2 backpacks, or a pack and a synergy .. worried about drift with the synergy though. and a 120 gal truck tank just to refill the backpacks.
also, i want to be spraying low volumes, i noticed that trimec is the only one that says you can put down as little as 1/2 gal per ksqft .. i only want maybe a 120 gal tank in the back of my truck max... so low volume is key.. how does that work? is it ok to mix stuff like speedzone stronger and only spray 1/2 gal per thousand sq. ft.? or is that volume needed?
would you say having trimec classic as my standard chem is a good (cheap!) desicion??
and speedzone for hard to kill stuff?
any other suggestions? i plan to max out at 150 fert/squirt customers, so would this be a reasonable set up? it will be a 5 app fert with 3 spot sprays w/trimec classic.. me and one employee, him with the fert, me with the backpack..
any suggestions or comments on my ideas, or the feasibility of my herbicide choice and application method?
thanks