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"Loosecanon" <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote in message 
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> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Loosecanon wrote:
>>> "Loosecanon"<loosecanon@iinet.net.au>  wrote in message
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>>>> "F Murtz"<haggisz@hotmail.com>  wrote in message
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>>>>> has any one the foggiest notion of where to get a thing like these 
>>>>> near
>>>>> Sydney.
>>>>> http://lawn-and-garden.hardwarestore.com/77-493-hose-end-sprayers.aspx
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if any help but seasol and some lawn fertilisers come in 2 
>>>> litre
>>>> containers. Should be available at Big B(unnings)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah did a Google search first link is the sprayers you are after. The 
>>> second
>>> link is stockists. But looks like you might have to order as a special
>>> through the hardware place.
>>>
>>> http://www.hudsonsprayers.com.au/products/hose/
>>> http://www.hudsonsprayers.com.au/stockists/
>>>
>>>
>> The fertilizer ones are no good for my purpose.
>> The ones I want have graduations like 5litres 10litres 15litres etc and 
>> if you want say 40 mls of chemical to 20 litres of water you put 20 mls 
>> of chemical in bottle and fill with water to the 20 litre mark then the 
>> hose sprays the mixture at required rate.
>>
>> I have already found many mail order places from overseas but I want 
>> somewhere here.
>> PS I already have two that I bought in hardware shops years ago but I am 
>> moving house and I can not find them at the moment (probably buried in 
>> the container in a box somewhere)
>
> I wouldn't want to lug around 20 litres of water (20 kg +weight of 
> sprayer) for any length of time. It was bad enough fertilising roses for a 
> customer from a 15 kg bag recently. Better to have something you fill more 
> often than to lug around something heavy. Even if you half fill it the 
> bulkiness of the container is not good. For me a 10 litre model would be 
> my maximum. Remember too you will be dragging a hose around as well.
>

I had the same thought but then I guessed that the container markings are 
not for 20 litres but for the equivalent of mixed content and then 20 litres 
of water sprays through the hose and uses up all the fluid.

I have been known to be wrong before.

Mike