Knapsack course

[Countryboy]

I have booked onto the two day knapsack pesticide course and wondered what it was like. I have never had any training on knapsack spraying and wanted to know what the course and assessment is like

[humpo48]

Did mine about 12 years ago, it was easy but has changed a bit since then. You will be fine and dandy. Nothing to worry about just listen and learn

[njmusk]

Did mine about 5 years ago, nothing to worry about, theory one day and practical second with assessment, they are there to help and guide you, if I can pass then anyone can.

[agg221]

I presume PA1 and PA6? I need to do these but have not been having much luck finding someone who will do the course and the assessment in one, and at a reasonable price. Only good option I found was in South Devon but it's a bit of a trek from Essex. Can anyone recommend anything more local?

 

Alec

[njmusk]

I presume PA1 and PA6? I need to do these but have not been having much luck finding someone who will do the course and the assessment in one, and at a reasonable price. Only good option I found was in South Devon but it's a bit of a trek from Essex. Can anyone recommend anything more local?

 

Alec

 

Where in Essex are you? I did mine when I lived near saffron walden, Robert Patmore sorted mine out, am trying to rack my brain where it was, it was held at a chemical/seed research place nearby, Sagenta or something.

 

Here you go

 

Saffron Walden Agricultural Training Group

 

[email protected]

mobile 07774145254

 

He used to live in Langley Upper Green, he did have a facebook page

really helpful guy

[Stock fencer]

I did my pa1, pa2, pa4 and pa6 with Robert Patmore ten years ago. Nice bloke and like people have said nothing to worry about. If you've been used to handling and working with chemicals it's just pointing out the basics. Knowing what the warning labels mean, a small amount of cosh, lots of common sense. Knowing how to read what the chemical is and application rates, it's all on the labels the biggest part of the course is teaching you how to read the labels to find out what you need to know. Then simple maths. Most chemical can have application rates for crop sprayer. So just bacic maths to work how much chemical to water ratio for a knapsack sprayer divided by the difference in capacity of the rate of spray per litres per hectare. Very simple course. As said listen and learn.

[Countryboy]

Thank you very much for the information. I have only ever sprayed around my garden up to now but need to be able to spray around my woodland from time to time. So it is quite a jump up from using a home sprayer/ stronger chemicals. Hope the old grey matter works on the course

[agg221]

Where in Essex are you? I did mine when I lived near saffron walden, Robert Patmore sorted mine out, am trying to rack my brain where it was, it was held at a chemical/seed research place nearby, Sagenta or something.

 

Here you go

 

Saffron Walden Agricultural Training Group

 

[email protected]

mobile 07774145254

 

He used to live in Langley Upper Green, he did have a facebook page

really helpful guy

 

Perfect! I am about 20mins drive from there, and work about 10mins from Syngenta which may be the place.

 

Cheers for that

 

Alec

[agg221]

Just to update this thread, I did the training a couple of weeks ago and had the assessment with Robert today - PA1 and PA6aw.

 

Alec