weedlicker vs sprayer

eorna

place full of thistles and nettles...sprayer gone..sick of topping..was considering a weed licker but not 100% sure if its a good buy or should i stick with another sprayer... (personally i hate spraying..too much messing with nozzles blocked and drips and drifts and grass set backs...) any opinions welcome

KatyMac

I was planning to buy a licker, but a friend of mine said I'd be better to put the money into a sprayer. His arguement was that a couple of sweeps of a sprayer covers so much ground while you'd be driving back and forwards/up and down a field for ages with a licker. It's a good point, but I'd like a few pointers as well.

reilig

We have both a sprayer and a licker. Sprayer is used for docks and low thistles and for spraying off for reseeding. Licker is used for rushes, nettles and high thistles. It's so much cheaper to run.

If we were doing rushes with the sprayer, it would cost us €50 for MCPA to do 4 to 5 acres.

With the licker, Gallup costs €5 per tank which will do 4 or 5 acres.

The licker is selective - it only kills what it touches. The sprayer sprays everything - kills rushes, but also crowfoot and stunts the grass.

Licker is used every week around here, sprayer is used about twice a year!

Sami23

Licker won't be much good if you want to burn off ground for reseeding. Go with the Sprayer

vanderbadger

have a licker and have nearly given up on it altogether, you get some and miss others and the following year you have more rushes back, sprayer giving better results i find anyway

Marooned75

I was thinking of getting a licker not sure now looking at this.

bbam

We have a weedlicker and find it great in the battle against rushes.
We made it in two section where the tank and pump mount on the 3pt and the licker trails behind it.
This allows the licker portion to be dropped off and a lance connected instead for spot spraying.

We find it better for the ground than spraying as Its completly selective.

It is slower than spraying as we kept it narrow for our smaller gates and fields.

However they are cheap ran.

beef burger

+1 here for the licker aswell bought new this year its built to last, what ever hits it dies easy ran as reilig said chemical wise and not alot to go wrong.

eorna

thanks. any makes that should be recommended or not recommended?

Floody Boreland

bbam wrote: »

We have a weedlicker and find it great in the battle against rushes.
We made it in two section where the tank and pump mount on the 3pt and the licker trails behind it.
This allows the licker portion to be dropped off and a lance connected instead for spot spraying.

We find it better for the ground than spraying as Its completly selective.

It is slower than spraying as we kept it narrow for our smaller gates and fields.

However they are cheap ran.

would like a licker but can't justify 2k so fancy making one this winter

pics would be great bbam