Gilmour W4 Spray Doc Wheel Pump 4-Gallon Sprayer
$74.34
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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.
Amazon. com Product Description
Point-and-shoot used to be a term reserved for easy-to-operate cameras; who knew it could be so easily translated to the world of sprayers? This Gilmour 4-gallon wheel pump sprayer requires no hand pumping or heavy lifting. Merely roll it to your target, aim, and spray. 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. Now spraying your lawn or garden is as easy as taking a stroll.
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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. 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.
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.