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One area often overlooked when building pest control equipment trucks or commercial lawn spray trucks is the small parts. People know enough to specify the big brands: Honda motor, Cox hose reel, Hypro pump, etc. but, often think the rest then doesn't really matter. I can show you for a fact in pictures that just throwing together the valves com […]

Bob Marley sang, “You can fool some people sometime, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” You might be fooled into thinking a few spot welds keeping your 100 pound hose reel suspended above your engine and pump will hold. But we know better. Eventually the normal wear and tear, thumping and bumping down roads, hot and cold temperatur […]

Sadly, most companies try to save money by buying the cheapest commercial lawn spray equipment. Now that’s okay if your overall plan is to use, abuse and toss it out! If your plan is to keep the equipment and rebuildparts when needed, then you need to invest first in quality equipment. It may hurt the budget a bit when you are purchasing the […]

We sometimes get asked how to change out the straps on the Birchmeier Backpack Sprayers. To change out the straps, use the Birchmeier fixing key.  The Birchmeier fixing key is already on your Birchmeier Backpack.   You want to save the old fixing key to re-use it when installing new Birchmeier straps. Here […]

I am pleased to present this guest blog post about the importance of pest control training by Jason Stigall of Mobile Training Solutions. Impressing safe and professional habits into newly minted employees is paramount. It is our obligation as state certified people to thoroughly educate individuals coming into our industry and those broaden […]

B&G Sprayer Tips - Big Impact on Pest Control Chemical CostsB&G Sprayer equipment experts report (see attribution below) that the brass B&G sprayer tip on your B&G 1 gallon sprayer experiences 10% nozzle wear each year. This means after 1 year, your B&G sprayer is putting out 10% MORE CHEMICAL than it did the year before.  I ca […]

B&G Spray Tips - Get the Right Tip for the Job Most pest control professionals use a B&G in their daily route.  In my experience, most who use a B&G use the  B&G Sprayer tip that came on the B&G.  In most cases, this is the B&G 5800 or B&G5800-CC tip. In many cases this makes sense.  These are great B&G t […]

Pest Control Equipment - Don't Wait for ProblemsOur pest control equipment repair shop sees all sort of problems, every day.The pest equipment issues that really surprise me are the ones that are totally avoidable. So many big problems can be avoided if the problem was dealt with when it was small. Check out this short spray equipmen […]

Summit Stacked Electric Hose Reels - With Roller GuidesOrdered these for a client and could not use them.  We are offering them BELOW COST!This is a beautiful piece of equipment:Heavy Duty Summit Electric Hose Reels, Color BLACK, quantity 212-Volt Electric Motor, quantity 2Heavy-Duty Roller guides, quantity 2Heavy duty swivel, quanti […]

We had a lot of entries in our pest control Crazy Customer Contest. I have included some of my favorites below. (NOTE: due to time constraints, I did not edit the results, just pasted them here for your enjoyment). The most common theme was customers complaining about dead bugs after the pest control treatment. Crazy, unreasonable […]