ProCare Lawn Care

Big news guys, we just secured a booth for the Equiptment Expo in Louisville this October. Find us at Booth # 42414.

We will have a working sprayer there to demonstrate. We look forward to seeing everyone.

It has been a slow process getting our patent approved, and we are still waiting for approval.

We have continued to work on scaling down our system and we have gotten all the nesssary components packaged into a 225 cubic inch housing.

This is configured to work with electric demand pumps, but only needs slight reconfiguring to work with gas bypass sprayer systems.

We are going to be talking to several manufacturers in the next months to try and work out a licensing agreement to get this on the market as soon ad possible. We are hoping to launch it by the Equiptment Expo this fall in Louisville KY.

Of course this is dependent on getting a granted patent.

I wanted to provide a update on our progress. As many of you may know we based development of thus system around the use of Prodiamine 4l, mainly because in our area we have centipede turf, and this chemical is very viscous, 180 - 200cP, has fine particals, 150 - 200 micron, and when rebatching tends to foam up really bad.

So we have developed a process that will allow for operators to meter the direct flow of any liquid chemical, then inject the chemical into the carrier fluid prior to discharging the mixture.

This eliminates the need for tank batching, reduces the need for handling chemicals, shorteded rebatchung time,, and if set up correctly can tell the operators how much chemical was applied to a property +/- 5%. It also means you no longer need to find a way of disposing of mixed product, as you mix what you need as you apply.

Calibration is just finding out the amount of time it takes to treat a 1000sqft, and using a calculation to give that operator a targeted flow rate.

There is a guage that displays the current flow rate of the chemical. With skid sprayer systems it takes 2 to calibrate the system, one spraying and the other adjusting to achieve the targeted flow rate. Once set then you just need a single operator.

But with ride on sprayers, you can monitor and adjust as you are appling the product. So you can simply put the 2.5gal jug on the sprayer and keep adding water to the tanks and spray all day untill your done or need to swap jugs. But your now no longer needed to pour and handel the chemicals.

We have been speaking with a few OEM manufacturers about bringing this product to the market, we are hoping to be patented granted later this year and then available for sale in 2024. Our latest changes to our testing rig has eliminated any mechanical issues with the system and initial testing had been positive. As we go into fall, we will be posting more clips of the system in action.

This system can be added to any sprayer system currently on the market, with slight changes to the plumbing configuration, and as of right now projected cost would be around $3500 per retro kit. We hope that as we work with OEM manufacturers we can reduce this cost 30 ‐ 40%.

When you figure labor savings, route streamlining, and reducing chemical waste then the savings will pay for this system with one season. Best of all there are no moving parts with the exception of a check valve on the clean water supply side.

Just tested a new component to our sprayer system. Initial test looks good and this is going to improve overall capabilities of the system.

We should be testing a new component for our sprayer system this Friday.

If it works, then our prototype sprayer will be ready to start manufacturing and it will eliminate the need for tank batching and dealing with leftover mix.

Our system uses a clean water tank and mixes the desired herbicide, at the desired concentration, as needed. It typically takes less than 60 seconds to flush the system. We typically flush a natural area, landscape, or rock driveway when we flush a product.

If this new component works correctly we will also be able to spray wettable powder herbicides as well.

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Getting closer to having our next sprayer system ready to showcase.

Going to be trying out a demand pump system with a electric pump.

This system will allow the operator to select 1 of 3 chemicals to be applied with a Water Flush system to clean out the system at the end of the day.

New sprayer prototype chemical intake line. Allows sprayer to pull chemicals as needed and vents the chemical container. When disconnected, the connector seals preventing any leaks, also allows you to shake the container as needed to suspend chemicals correctly. Cap has stanless steel tube that reaches the bottom of the container. Installation is easy, just puncture rod through the container seal, and tighten. Cap stays in place till container is empty, minimizing user contact with concentrated chemicals.

About to start testing our final prototype sprayer.... very excited.... last test we were able to spray Prodiamine 4L directly out of the container, simply shaked up the container and applied..... switching over to test a electric on demand pump next. Videos coming soon.