Spray contractor hasnt triple washed containers (2024)

Enry said:

Paraquat - complete contact herbicide - highly toxic if ingested, burnt off any vegetation on the surface. Banned here since the 80's? Widely used elsewhere where we happily import food from... https://www.syngenta.co.nz/product/crop-protection/herbicide/gramoxone-250

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Banned since EU court case in 2007.
I’ve used it to burn off herbage seed aftermath before wheat.

bobk said:

We make most of it .

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Produced in Huddersfield. Important jobs for the local economy but I’ve raised this very issue many times.

Flatland guy said:

Was at Cereals last year and one stand was promoting a CTS system. They stated the industry had settled on a cap design eventually( but Covid had slowed progression) and was saying certainly be seeing the new lids this year( still use manually if want)
However have not seen one!!
Also went on about cost compared to current caps about 10 times more expensive, about £2 compared to 20p IIRC but since when have the chemical industry worried about passing on higher costs. However I mentioned about recycling of containers, well every excuse under sun, contamination blah, blah, blah. They could not understand that the farm delivery trucks could take the empties back to agri supplier who could then swap over when receiving more full containers. Since learned not sure where in world where some chemicals are made, so the industry don't seem to want to ship empty containers around the world or arrange bulk delivery to UK then packaged up in UK. So far easier for manufacturers to use new all the time.

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We used the “link caps” about 20 years ago.
The problem distribution also had was they could not differentiate between an empty return or a full return. Partial product usage caused issues too.
We even got credited by Dalgety when we returned empties .

Punch said:

Produced in Huddersfield. Important jobs for the local economy but I’ve raised this very issue many times.

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That explains a lot about @Netherfield

Raggy said:

Some chemicals can be quite sticky, and difficult to rinse out clean. If possible, then provide (fairly) hot water at the filling area and use that after the initial rinse in the induction hopper has removed most of the contents. You'll soon see a difference.

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I’ve got hot water available off biomass boiler and a few chemical drums which don’t clean easily with chem hopper, just put hot water in them and rinse again at end and they then rinse spotless

quattro said:

I’ve got hot water available off biomass boiler and a few chemical drums which don’t clean easily with chem hopper, just put hot water in them and rinse again at end and they then rinse spotless

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Had to read that twice, thought you whe getting hot water from running the boiler on empty chem drums

Does anyone just cut the drums open to clean bottom?

I've thought about just getting battery grinder and cutting base out to clean it.

Some American spray rigs have a knife system for opening containers. You don't take lid off, just dump bottom of container on knife and it splits it open.

Punch said:

Produced in Huddersfield. Important jobs for the local economy but I’ve raised this very issue many times

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It was also made in Sunderland, a few workers came down to Huddersfield when they stopped production up there, one chap in the village died at 58, his widow tried to blame, as it was then, ICI for his death. I think they paid a small lump sum to keep her quiet, all the production workers had a 12 monthly medical check up.

Brother in law worked there as a Millwright, but left when they were looking for redundancies, he's now 72 and over the last couple of years had some bed health scares, had all his bone marrow removed, cleaned and then replaced, then had to have all his childhood injections again. No one can say it's from working there though.

Phil P said:

Had to read that twice, thought you whe getting hot water from running the boiler on empty chem drums

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Sadly it’s woodchip but there seems to be quite a few that incinerate plastic drums and fert bags!!!