Why does a low flow weed sprayer take forever to use?
Low-flow sprayers require crawling at speeds around 0.75 mph to apply the correct chemical concentration, turning an 8,000 square foot yard into a grueling 40-minute ordeal. Trying to speed up this painfully slow pace leads to uneven coverage and patchy, discolored lawns that take weeks to recover.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Split the spraying job across multiple days
- 2Walk at the extremely slow pace required by the equipment
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I have Spraymate Tornado (0.2GPM) and T-Zone SE. It says to mix 1.5oz per Gal per 1000 ft^2. At a 3ft wide spray that equates to 0.75 mph walking speed. Average walking speed is 3-4 mph, so this would be a slow crawl and at an 8000 ft^2 yard, it would be 40 minutes of spraying.”source ↗
“i did something similar last summer with my backpack sprayer, tried to rush through it and ended up with a checkerboard lawn for like 3 weeks, took forever to even out”source ↗
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