The agricultural machinery stands out for its many applications in farming and its usefulness for seeding and harvesting fruits. Therefore, it is essential to be conscious of the importance of keeping these machines perfectly clean so that we can go on using them for a far long time.
Why is it to be done a good cleaning of your air-blast sprayer or agricultural machine?
With a good cleaning and maintenance, you will be reducing in a great deal the probabilities of wear of the machine and even the breakage of any piece. In a few words, you would not only have to check that there is no dirt but also that the machine will keep working on good conditions to carry out its agricultural activities for the next years to come.
Equally, you must use the required personal protective equipment to clean the agricultural air-blast sprayer in full safety. Besides, in the event of bad weather conditions, you will have to wait that the weather improves so that you can clean your machine with better results.
With our pieces of advice, we hope that you will be able to do a correct cleaning of our TEYME's air-blast sprayers more thoroughly. We suggest you scheduling the procedure in 4 stages, starting by the hopper or tank and finishing with the emptying or deletion of wastes.
1. Cleaning of the air-blast sprayer's hopper or tank
The process starts with the mixing of the remaining product and the spraying of this one every time on the same vegetation, increasing the speed twice faster than usual. Later the tank must be filled up with 10 % out of the nominal capacity and an appropriate detergent must be used.
Once the air-blast sprayer is in the draining area, you must open the jets and carry out the full draining of the tank. Finally, you must clean the sprayer with a good detergent to maintain its good condition not only inside but also outside. Besides, we remind you that you must not drain over the vegetation the cleaning water with detergents or deactivators.
2. Cleaning of your air-blast sprayer's filters
Once the tank is rinsed, it is the right time to disassemble the filling basket and the filters and clean them externally and assemble them again once these have been cleansed. For this purpose, you can use a draining area to suppress the wastes.
3. Clean the rinsing circuit of your agricultural machine
If the air-blast sprayer has its own cleaning circuit assembled, this one must be rinsed with the water from the auxiliary tank, by reversing the 3-ways valve, to achieve a perfect cleaning inside. Then, the treated vegetation must be sprayed over in the same way as it has been done with the hopper or tank.
In fact, the steps to be followed are quite similar. So later the tank will have to be filled up too with 10% out of its total capacity and an appropriate detergent will have to be used. The following step is to switch the pump on, aiming at the suppression of all the remains of the product inside the tank as well as inside the circuits. Finally, the jets must be opened, and the tank fully drained out.
4. Process of emptying and suppression of wastes
This would be the last step, and it is very important that the draining is done in an area prepared to this end, like an open non-cultivated area or a waterproof one to prevent undesired liquids from leaking through other natural areas. It is important to carry out this draining in this way. Otherwise, you may be breaking the local laws.
Thus, the cans with chemicals cannot be spilled on the rest of wastes of the farm. They must be cleaned and brought to a selected waste collection area. You can even store them and contact to specialized companies to make yourself sure that the product arrives at the right place with all the proper safety measures.
How to clean other crops protection machines: the cleaning and maintenance of our agricultural machinery
The procedure of air-blast sprayer's cleaning can be also useful to clean other machines which are used in agriculture. However, it must be said that not all these machines possess the same filters or circuits. Thus, considering this special feature, we are going to talk about some of our TEYME machines used in farming and how these must be cleaned.
- Vineyard sprayers. These elements are used practically daily, aiming at keeping the right temperature during all the stages of the harvest. So, it is necessary that when you clean them, you check that the filters are in good condition after every passage, as well as the water tank and its own cleaning circuits.
- Dusting machines. This sort of machines is used practically daily, so you must check all the elements once you carry out the cleaning and make yourself sure that there is no obstruction or nothing similar which could hinder the good working of the machine and harm the harvest.
- Herbicides. These artefacts usually contain different specific chemicals for every kind of crop, which, at the same time, can become toxic if they are not used in an appropriate way. Thus, you must check the filters, the rinsing circuits and the tank or hopper. As a matter of fact, it happens the same as in the air-blast sprayer, which can contain toxic remains which will have to be treated by professional staff for their deletion. For this purpose, you must bring the wastes to a specific point for their destruction and wait until another specialized firm comes and gathers it.
- Humidifiers. These are being used similarly to vineyard sprayers, so you must check specially their cleaning circuits, if they are in good condition, and that the filters do not catch dirt after the time passes. You will need to look up much further than normal in periods of intensive harvest.
- Cannons. These fixed or mobile objects have a powerful engine available that can be cleaned too, as well as the rest of their own components such as the filters or the rinsing circuit.
Apart from considering these aspects, it is important that you visit your nearest TEYME'S official dealer if you have any incident or any specific request for assistance in order to repair or maintain your machines.
To sum up, all these pieces of advice will be really useful to clean your agricultural machine, whether air-blast sprayers, vineyard sprayers, dusters, herbicides, humidifiers, cannons or other machines which could be needed for farming tasks.- We wish that you take advantage of your TEYME's machines as much longer as possible. To this end, you must use and treat correctly each machine, keeping a regular cleaning to warrant its good working.
