Through out the season we apply light amounts of nutrient packages to the turf grass to help with recovery and stress. This can be a long process each time that we schedule this. For example when we apply a nutrient package to the fairways it requires us to make (5) 300 gallon fairway tanks, each one must have the correct added materials to make up that package to cover over 30 acres. On average it can take us about 20-30 minutes to fill up with a total of 4-5 hours to actually apply the nutrient package. You can see there is a good portion of our time being spent mixing, roughly less than 2 hours combined. If we can minimize the amount of time it takes us to mix these together we could potentially see a savings in fuel cost and most importantly move on to the next task for that day very quickly. How do we improve this situation? The answer is we build a mix tank to hold the required gallons to spray the fairways in one tank, remember it takes us 5 tanks at 300 gallons for a total of 1500 gallons. The short of it is we will only mix one time and each time the fairway sprayer needs to be filled up, they will back up to fill from the large mix tank and then off to the next appropriate hole.
Quick, easy and most importantly safe.
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| The large tank will hold the 1500 gallons, the small tank to the left will hold our Iron that we use on a regular basis. The small device in front of the large tank mixes the appropriate products together then shoots them into the large tank. |
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| This is one of the fairway sprayers that we use, and it only holds 300 gallons at a time. |
