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The Gilmour Spray Doc wheel pump 4-gallon sprayer pressurizes as you walk or roll it back and forth. This "point-and-shoot" sprayer requires no hand pumping or heavy lifting. The unique wheel pump apparatus pressurizes the contents as you push the sprayer back and forth. Use the built-in pressure relief valve to depressurize the sprayer upon completion of your job. The unit has an extra-wide 4-1/4-inch mouth opening for quick filling, an easy-to-clean filter, and a drain at the bottom of the unit. It also features a flexible, 16-inch rotating polymer wand with an adjustable polymer nozzle and a 72-inch premium PVC hose.
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I really like this item, especially the fact that you don't have to hand pump it or carry it around. It holds 4 gallons which is another plus, you're not having to refill it all the time as with a smaller sprayer. I did have a problem with it not pressurizing once but it turned out to be because I missed cleaning out the plug thing. The only thing I would like to see added to this sprayer is some sort of stirring or mixing mechanism to keep your sprays from settling.I don't regret buying this one in the least, and it qualified for free shipping also, which didn't hurt any :)
Here in Texas, we have just about every kind of pest or annoying plant immaginable...fire ants, johnson/crab grass, huge grass hoppers, scorpions, nasty spiders, tough-to-kill weeds, etc.Needless to say, I have to spray a variety of garden products on my yard, both to keep it looking presentable and to keep it safe for bare feet. I've used a common two-gallon pump sprayer and a 4-gallon backpack sprayer for years to apply weed killers and insecticides, but carrying a 16-30lb container around a 10,000sqft. yard gets old pretty quick.This Gilmour 4-gallon sprayer is awesome! No carrying, no pumping, and no backache. You just push it about 25-30 ft, and it's pressurized. From there, movement around the yard keeps the pressure up. The sprayer also has a nice long hose, so you can reach pretty far back into planted areas, without having to push the sprayer through mulch and soft-earth.Compared with my old sprayers, this thing has a nice wide mouth, so it's tough to spill chemicals down the side. It's also transparent enough to actually see the fill-points and measurement marks, so overfilling is much less of a problem than with opaque sprayers.I haven't experienced any problems with leaking or spillage from the filled container, as reported by other reviewers...perhaps the model has been modified since they were written?This product is also a big time saver, even over similarly-sized backpack sprayers...the push-to-pump (actually, I pull it along behind me) action just leaves you much more nimble, and able to move around smoother. I find that I over-spray much less, use less chemical, and finish about 15 minutes faster (less refilling, less waste, smoother motion and action, etc).This is definately one of the best garden products I've ever purchased. A truly wonderful and smartly-designed lawn and garden sprayer!
I was so happy to find this sprayer, originally. I have MG (myasthenia gravis), an illness that causes profound weakness with any repetitive motion. So pumping a sprayer to spray my 100+ rose bushes made me too weak to carry the sprayer. I thought this was just the perfect solution, even at $.. that I gladly paid. It worked fairly well at first, although the hose could have been longer and it tended to tip over frequently if you didn't keep one hand on the handle. When it tipped over the spray solution would run out the overfill hole, so I was constantly having to stop spraying to pick it up. At first it pressurized well with 50-60 ft and would spray 5-7 rose bushes before needing another 50 ft walk to repressurize it. It had an easily adjusted and quite fine mist nozzle, an almost wide enough opening for mixing the chemicals, and was very easy to disassemble and thoroughly clean. Since the wheels carried the weight, it was quite effortless to use (except for the tipping problem). Being only about 10-12" wide, it will follow you into almost any place wide enough to walk into, and is easy to give a little extra "sloshing" to keep the mixture well mixed as you go along. It uses all the mixture with very little waste and you can easily open the handle/lid without losing pressure because it uses a small cylinder in the bottom of the tank that contains the pressurized area. All in all, I was quite happy the first 3 or 4 times I used it, and would have rated it 4 stars. But then I noticed it seemed to take more and more distance to get it fully pressurized and I was having to pressurize it more frequently. In spite of being extra careful to clean it thoroughly after each use, it got worse. After about 12 uses in 6 months, it required 150-200ft of pushing/pulling to get enough pressure to only spray one medium size rosebush, far more effort than even my healthy husband was willing to exert. His advise: "Toss it" I'm so disappointed. Guess I have to spend more money. This time I'll try the Black & Decker model.
What appears to be a great item for the home plant enthusiast really isnt very useful as delivered. The product's #1 fault is the hose supplied. The box it comes in, as well as the online description say its 96 inches. It isnt, its 68 inches. I even called Gilmour and they said they dont supply the 96inch hoses anymore, its tough luck. But note where the hose comes out, its at the front of the unit, which means for 99% of the watering you are going to do the hose must wrap around the unit to the back (where you are standing when watering). 68 inches of hose renders this unit useless. If they added another 5 ft of hose...this would be a great item. It pumps nicely. I do wish the throat were a bit bigger, but its far bigger than most, which is a real plus. If you buy this unit assume you will be taking it apart and buying more hose to make it a functional unit. Given Gilmours attitude about customer satisfaction, and the fact the advertising is blatantly false, this gets the lowest rank possible, 1 star.
Updated 7/4/2011 - Current one has lost it's fortitude and I get about a second of spraying without walking around. I hate to order a new one but not too many alternatives. I have one that pulls behind the yard tractor but that's too big and doesn't have a wand. I could get one of the back pack pump ones but I'm not keen on carrying three gallons of Round-Up on my back. Amazon sells an electric wheel sprayer with good reviews but it costs $270. Guess I'll buy another repair kit.Updated 9/21/10 - I revamped one of the old sprayers with the Glimour R12C Telescoping Sprayer Wand and the Replacement Valve R58C ($20 for both). It sprays fine but I was only getting about 4 seconds of spray from a fully charged sprayer. Then I discovered that it pressurized better if I pushed it in front of me (the wheels rolled better). So I had my brothers redo the wheels so that they roll better in general, thus keeping the sprayer pressurized. Still not as good as a brand new pump but it works for me.Updated 8/10 - After 5 years the only problem I'm having is that the sprayer leaks and doesn't totally quit spraying until the pressure is gone. Because I keep it full of Roundup, this can be a problem but it looks like I can replace all the parts for less than $25. In fact, I think I'll replace the parts on the first one I bought in 2003 and have two working sprayers. To make your parts last longer, unscrew the top slightly and hang the sprayer end up (just a tie wire) so that the wand doesn't curve.)Updated 2007 - Unlike other cheaper sprayers I have bought, this one is still as good as new after two years of hard use. I keep it filled with Roundup with the squirter end hanging squirt side up when not in use. I have only emptied and cleaned the container once each winter.It rolls and pressurizes easily on grass or rock but slides over concrete, particularly with light loads. The wheels worked better after I cleaned the wheel base.First Review in 2005 - Before I got this sprayer, I had to tote around 1 gallon sprayers, refilling several times, to maintain my 8 acre property. Now I just fill this baby up once and pull it easily behind me.I estimate that I get about 30 seconds of spraying (the most I can get at a time) for 30 seconds of walking. As long as I keep walking briskly, I never run out of pressure. But If I am having to stop and spray a lot, I may have to make two rounds. It also seems to work better with full loads, possibly because the wheels get more traction so you get more pressure.The new one holds pressure better than the old one: stronger and longer spray. I couldn't find a spot where I had to spray long enough for it to run out of pressure. But the old one still works well enough for me to use for spot spraying.
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