if you've got weeds in your garden who are you gonna call no not ghostbusters
you need me well not me you need milwaukee so this here is the milwaukee switch tank it's not just
a standard knapsack sprayer or battery-powered knapsack sprayers plenty of them on the market
this is something else a little bit special the main reason being is you can have different tanks
for different purposes yes you could have one for water for watering your plants or in your
greenhouse you'd have another one for your weed killer to be able to kill your weeds on your path
you have another one for your valeting your car full of your spray foam or your tfr or whatever
it might be and then you can have another one for just killing your broadleaf weeds or something
like that you might have got loads of other stuff you might use it for it's great that you can stop
the cross contamination between chemicals by using this pretty cool gadget right let's have
a look at the specifications and take it from there so spec wise let's start with the battery
yes if you would buy this as a kit with charger and battery it would come with a four amp power
why only a four amp power you save sure you need something bigger well the four amp power will
run this unit for 80 minutes of use and i'll be honest when your knapsack spraying or watering
whatever you might be doing with this cool amazing bit of kit 18 minutes is probably going to be long
enough because by that point you're probably going to want a nice cup of tea and we all like a nice
cup of tea don't we so battery in here on the side here you've got this little case in cover you clip
that open like so open it up yes it's waterproof makes sense because obviously it involves water in
this product and then your battery can go in and clip in there but there is plenty of room there if
you want to put a bigger battery in obviously the smaller the battery the lighter it's going to be
because one one of these is full of water the same as any other knapsack sprayer it's going to be
quite heavy so 4 amp hour perfect 2 amp hour even if you've got one of them perfect 3 amp hour high
output even better there we go that'll be great that's where the battery goes inside there nice
and easy pop that out of the way close the cover i love that yeah on a sandwich box or in a lunch
box just like that because it just all closes perfectly you know i mean anyway on the other
side of this set beautiful piece of equipment you have got a on and off switch when you press that
it goes and a nice little hum beautiful just sends you into a complete trance of a daydream
beautiful then it's got a dial here this dial has got five settings so you can turn that around like
so so that you're able to set how much pressure you want to come out of this it's got up to 120
psi's worth of pressure in this unit i'm not sure how to quantify that with regards to this because
you think of a car tire it's like 30 35 psi 120 that sounds quite a lot sounds like a good blew
some seals but that's what it says on the box but anyway we'll see what it is like in a minute when
we plug it in and spray some stuff how it works let's have this tank here the water tank the blue
one for water green one for chemical hopefully that's quite obvious tank comes on here and
goes up onto there you've got two little hooks on the back so hook of your crook in the back there
push down clips it in nicely and then your latch on the front pull the latch up around
here just like so and clip it in to switch the tank i wonder where they got that name from
you can then click that up there lift it off and pop that in
like so and now you've got your chemical tank on oh well that was easy wasn't it so unclip that
and clip it off and put it back on but you're saying james but you didn't wash your sprayer
well this is just the motor and the battery holder in there you've got your pump is in the bottom of
each tank yep so you pump now you can spin it around all removable as well it's not like it's
molded into the plastic which i really really like you can just spin that round like that and that is
what creates the pumping noise so theoretically this shouldn't get wet obviously with water and
residue if you get drips down in the size and bits and pieces they've actually designed the tray so
if there is any leakages or weeps then you've got this little gutter we'll call it a gutter around
the outside of the base to let any water go back behind here trickle down over there and knock down
your back we've all been knapsack spraying before where we've got a wet back i hope we're not going
to get wet back later on when we test it but your water sprayer a little bit different than you know
i said just now is for you watering your plants and things but what it's mainly designed for
is so that you can use it on site work so you can actually undo this and clip that onto your
disk cutter so you're still this gutter probably most popular one in the world or you're makita
no i can't say it dis cutter or even other brands that are on the market the main thing
it's designed for is for obviously the mx disc cutter yes little clip here in the background we
were a few weeks ago had the opportunity to try it out and we used this very switch tank on it
powering it plenty of water flow through to the disc cutter to be able to cut through that tarmac
absolutely brilliant very nice keeps the dust down bob on like a lot that's great really really good
so let's say you're in the car valeting world or perhaps you just use a lot of sort of soapy
chemical for washing machines off you can actually take these harness straps and everything off
nice and easy undo them under them pull that off and then actually let's do that right fast forward
so there we are i've taken the straps off so now you've got just
a carry handle so let's say you just want to carry that round and spray your tfr on your vehicle
to get it before you pressure wash it off or your foam or whatever you might be putting through it
to be able to do it you haven't got to have it as a backpack sprayer a lot of people don't realize
that you just use it as a carry around i think that's great really really good um other features
it has got a clip here to clip your hose in on the side nice and you know once again nice for
transport purposes and yeah but i think it is now time to stop the waffle and go out and do
some spraying luckily enough i'm licensed to spray here in the united kingdom so that makes it easier
for doing this video without a doubt but we use a spray tank water sprayer and the chemical sprayer
let's crack on let's go and do that right so we're all set up already got my you know pp
on just for just for the sake of filming really pretty much anyway it's time now to go and fill
our switch tank with organic herbicide free weed killer yeah that's right just do that and then
you can fill it up look there we go a lovely bit of water nice thing about this tank you're
not going to get your straps wet when filling that's normally when you get your straps work
obviously with the container full clip it back into the base here we are only spot spraying
today so we're not spraying like a large area so i've changed the nozzle to the flat fan obviously
there's lots of other nozzles for different applications of spraying deflector nozzles
cones all sorts with spot spraying today but i do like a flat fan it's my favorite
nozzle for spraying cool and we're on that's right nice weight nice weight
about the same as what a normal next but knapsack spray would be with 15 liters of chemical
chemical water the sprayer even comes with its own road mic mount which is cool
right but it's spraying up through our demo garden on the path here deliberately left
this for a long time for this video so you know don't be ashamed of my gut path i am anyway so
tell me how bad it is by all means in the comments that'd be great right i haven't turned this the
dial up yet whichever side that is there it is cool so i can i can reach that from here
i can turn it on from here and yeah it's all quite handy so we'll see how we get on to start with
there we go i gotta say i'm you know used to doing that i've got nothing for this
hand to do now so i could be on the phone at the same time hello mate how you doing
control yeah if you'd like it to walk back over what i've already done
sorry mr blue belt you're not meant to be there sorry mr strawberries
so
but there's one full tank we have used in the beautiful switch tank we have used it on number
one all the time right okay so it's been on so you turn it on got green light there i've
used it on number one the whole time so it's just been trickling along which i really like actually
because the best thing about it if you you've got consistent spray all the time whereas when you're
pumping it obviously your pressure goes up and down so one minute it's really powerful the next
minute it's not obviously once you get good at it you can keep that fairly consistent but it'll
never be as accurate as this because once you've got on one and just hold that trigger it's the
same consistency all the time let's see how much battery is used so far and it has used pull out
we've used oh it's still saying it's full i suppose if you're using a full power which
you will in a minute because we're going to put the water tank on instead then we'll see
how much batter it uses after using the water tank right let's switch tanks huh get it switch
tanks to the water tank oh right water tank i filled it like half full because it comes with
a little hose pipe squirtiness which is great but obviously like i said before you can clip
this into a disk cutter obviously the mx range if you've got it and let's go so it does come
with quite a long bit of pipe so depending on the application you might want to cut off a bit
if you're just using it for watering stuff and or rinsing stuff off you probably don't need such a
long pipe but if you're using on the disco you would want the long pipe or if you're using it
for other applications and it's on number one at the moment because that's what we're spraying with
and see what happens oh look we've got a dribble fest generally water some seeds or something
that'd be quite cool right let's turn it up number two oh i feel like getting harder number three
all right still nothing right let's go number four
and five oh job it oh that's flat out that's right look at that let's go in my homemade
greenhouse perfect the wife has already been in the water these this morning already so look at
this this is perfect we have actually bought plants as she is the first time we've ever had
had to see how far we can shoot it can i do as i would with a hose pipe probably not quite on
that fur this one but it's not this is not really what it's designed for i don't think
well it's designed for anything you want to shoot water at doesn't it yeah we got them all
it keeps dribbling at me we're just going to empty the tank now or whatever's left
well i don't know you can see what's left i can't see what's left what's about a third
let's just turn it on and empty the tank
i think we are empty all right empty slush right let's take it right out off my back hang on
it is well come in come in come in still full okay so a four amp hour battery
i don't think they're wrong with saying that last 18 minutes what if i've been
i was spraying for like 45 minutes on one obviously and i've been watering for like
ten five five minutes the milwaukee switch tank i'm impressed i like it it's got multi-function
which is always great for any tool you can change the tanks between lots of chemicals it gives you
a consistent spray pattern it's easy to use it's nice to use it's simple it's not too complicated
it's a win i like it i really do like it am i going to use my manual knapsack sprayer in the
future probably not i'll probably just stick this on because i can have different tanks
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i'll see you in the next one when hopefully we won't be doing so much dribbling see you later