This video is absolutely fantastic and incredibly easy to follow. The idea of using the metronome is pure genius! I practiced walking and calibrating my sprayer with outstanding results. Thank you for creating such a helpful and effective guide!
This is awesome to hear man. I was hoping I came across in the video so that folks would understand exactly what I was doing and how much of a game changer it actually is. Much appreciated 🤘🏼
Great info. You must follow Pete since you bought from GCI. He did a video a few years ago that you minus the product amount from your carrier. So if you want 4 oz of product over 1K ft2 and use 2 gal water per 1K ft2 you would only use 252 oz of water so you have a total of 256 fluid in your sprayer.
I love the idea of using a metronome to set your pace while walking. I'm just learning to spray and I sort of do that in my head but a metronome will make it perfectly accurate.
Man, that's a lot of work to calibrate. Just spray for 1 minute into a container, measure the ozs, and divide that into 128. This will give you the amount of time in minutes/seconds to spray 1 gallon. 128 / 64 = 2 minutes to spray 1 gallon. Did you measure 50 ozs in 1 minute? 128 / 50 = 2.56 minutes to spray 1 gallon on 1000 sq ft. Adjust your walking speed according to flow rate although let's face it, backpack sprayers are designed to spray 0.4 to 0.5 gpm at a normal human walking pace. But if you want to fine tune it, see how long it takes to walk 200 feet. For me its 1 minute. Fan width is 2.5 feet so 200 feet x 2.5 feet = 500. That means I cover 500 sq ft feet in 1 minute and have applied 0.5 gallons of liquid at a flow rate of 0.5 gpm. My back yard is 2000 sq ft. and I cover that in 4 minutes using exactly 2 gallons (0.5 gpm x 4 minutes).
This is very incorrect. Anyone can do all that stuff you mentioned above. But what NOONE can do is be spot on every time. There is NO WAY you can calibrate your body to walk perfectly while you spray your yard. Watch the entire video and maybe you’ll learn something.
@@dailyDIYdude I'm sorry but you don't have to be "spot on" just walk at your normal pace. This is why you measure how far you walk at your normal pace (everyone has one) in 1 minute. It's not rocket science believe me.
@@Kevin-mm6xmIf you calibrate by that method and determine you have 91 seconds you now have to figure out how fast you have to walk to cover 1K ft2 in 91 seconds.
@@papamowslow196 Backpack sprayers are designed to spray 0.5 gallons per minute, and the typical TeeJet tip outputs 0.5 gallons per minute. Most herbicides require 1 gallon over 1,000 sq. ft. These specs are not by coincidence. It's designed to accommodate the average walking speed of an adult to apply 0.5 gallons at adult average walking speed, not running, not crawling, but normal walking speed over 500 sq ft per minute. 2 minutes gets you 1,000 sq ft. It's designed this way for the average person. The engineers who design these things know what they're doing.
This video is absolutely fantastic and incredibly easy to follow. The idea of using the metronome is pure genius! I practiced walking and calibrating my sprayer with outstanding results. Thank you for creating such a helpful and effective guide!
This is awesome to hear man. I was hoping I came across in the video so that folks would understand exactly what I was doing and how much of a game changer it actually is. Much appreciated 🤘🏼
Great info. You must follow Pete since you bought from GCI. He did a video a few years ago that you minus the product amount from your carrier. So if you want 4 oz of product over 1K ft2 and use 2 gal water per 1K ft2 you would only use 252 oz of water so you have a total of 256 fluid in your sprayer.
Exactly correct. Always minus your product from your carrier water. Yes Pete is a VERY good friend of mine. Thanks for watching 💪🏼
Best explanation I have seen yet, the metronome is brilliant!
Sorry I’m seeing these comments so late. I appreciate you watching
Check out that shirt!
What’s up dawg. You know we got to represent. Hope you doing good. Pop Pete in the back of the head for me.
@@dailyDIYdude yes sir man doing ok! Actually today is my 10 year anniversary of working for pete. And I’ll do it 🤣
@@dailyDIYdude hope your doing well!
Congratulations man 💪🏼
@@dailyDIYdude thank you bro!
That app is perfect. New sub
@@spellenerrer6648 i appreciate you checking out the video and subscribing. It’s definitely a game changer when spraying
Great video. What tips do you normally use?
Thanks Stephen. This is a Tee Jet XR 11008 VS. thanks for watching bud
I love the idea of using a metronome to set your pace while walking. I'm just learning to spray and I sort of do that in my head but a metronome will make it perfectly accurate.
Yes I try to encourage anyone spraying to use it. Even the professional. Thanks for watching
I have the Typhoon and Cyclone and when it gets low I just take off the strap off my left shoulder to lean the sprayer to get the rest of it.
Awesome, yeah that works great as well. Thanks for the tip
@@dailyDIYdude You welcome! Also if you can remember to lean the tank ahead of time when the weight of it gets lighter for continuous spray.
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Thanks for watching bud. This is definitely the fool proof way to get it spot on. 💪🏼
Yeah. That's pretty cool you always doing something high tech. Lol
Man, that's a lot of work to calibrate. Just spray for 1 minute into a container, measure the ozs, and divide that into 128. This will give you the amount of time in minutes/seconds to spray 1 gallon. 128 / 64 = 2 minutes to spray 1 gallon. Did you measure 50 ozs in 1 minute? 128 / 50 = 2.56 minutes to spray 1 gallon on 1000 sq ft. Adjust your walking speed according to flow rate although let's face it, backpack sprayers are designed to spray 0.4 to 0.5 gpm at a normal human walking pace. But if you want to fine tune it, see how long it takes to walk 200 feet. For me its 1 minute. Fan width is 2.5 feet so 200 feet x 2.5 feet = 500. That means I cover 500 sq ft feet in 1 minute and have applied 0.5 gallons of liquid at a flow rate of 0.5 gpm. My back yard is 2000 sq ft. and I cover that in 4 minutes using exactly 2 gallons (0.5 gpm x 4 minutes).
This is very incorrect. Anyone can do all that stuff you mentioned above. But what NOONE can do is be spot on every time. There is NO WAY you can calibrate your body to walk perfectly while you spray your yard. Watch the entire video and maybe you’ll learn something.
@@dailyDIYdude I'm sorry but you don't have to be "spot on" just walk at your normal pace. This is why you measure how far you walk at your normal pace (everyone has one) in 1 minute. It's not rocket science believe me.
@@Kevin-mm6xm we’ll just have to disagree which each other which is fine. Some of us are just a little more dialed in than the average Joe.
@@Kevin-mm6xmIf you calibrate by that method and determine you have 91 seconds you now have to figure out how fast you have to walk to cover 1K ft2 in 91 seconds.
@@papamowslow196 Backpack sprayers are designed to spray 0.5 gallons per minute, and the typical TeeJet tip outputs 0.5 gallons per minute. Most herbicides require 1 gallon over 1,000 sq. ft. These specs are not by coincidence. It's designed to accommodate the average walking speed of an adult to apply 0.5 gallons at adult average walking speed, not running, not crawling, but normal walking speed over 500 sq ft per minute. 2 minutes gets you 1,000 sq ft. It's designed this way for the average person. The engineers who design these things know what they're doing.