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  2. Sprayer - Wikipedia

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    In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops. Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks with spray guns) to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors with boom mounts of 4–30 ...

  3. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  4. Aerial application - Wikipedia

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    The first known aerial application of agricultural materials was by John Chaytor, who in 1906 spread seed over a swamped valley floor in Wairoa, New Zealand, using a hot air balloon with mobile tethers. [3] Aerial sowing of seed still continues to this day with cover crop applications and rice planting.

  5. Category:Agricultural aircraft - Wikipedia

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    An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use - usually aerial spraying of pesticides or fertiliser. In this role ...

  6. Operation Ranch Hand - Wikipedia

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    A plane sprayed a swath of land that was 80 m (260 ft) wide and 16 km (9.9 mi) long in about 4½ minutes, at a rate of about 3 U.S. gallons per acre (3 m 3 /km 2). [5] Sorties usually consisted of three to five aircraft flying side by side. 95% of the herbicides and defoliants used in the war were sprayed by the U.S. Air Force as part of ...

  7. Backpack - Wikipedia

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    A 30 L top and bottom-loading Deuter Trans Alpine hiking backpack A 12 L front-loading Canon 200EG photography backpack. A backpack—also called knapsack, schoolbag, rucksack, pack, booksack, bookbag, haversack, packsack, or backsack—is, in its simplest frameless form, a fabric sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders; but it can have an external or ...

  8. HAZMAT Class 4 Flammable solids - Wikipedia

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    Division 4.1: Flammable Solid . Flammable solids are any of the following four types of materials: Desensitized Explosives: explosives that, when dry, are Explosives of Class 1 other than those of compatibility group A, which are wetted with sufficient water, alcohol, or plasticizer to suppress explosive properties; and are specifically authorized by name either in the 49CFR 172.101 Table or ...

  9. Irrigation - Wikipedia

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    In modern agriculture, drip irrigation is often combined with plastic mulch, further reducing evaporation, and is also the means of delivery of fertilizer. The process is known as fertigation . Deep percolation, where water moves below the root zone, can occur if a drip system is operated for too long or if the delivery rate is too high.