Sprayer Boom

[Teamjefe]

Hey guys,

I'm new here and this is my first post. I own and manage about 4000 acres of land south of Houston,Texas. I have a M7040 that I use for maintenance and small projects. I have a Polaris Ranger that I use as well. I build a spray rig for the ranger that has a 100 gallon tank on a pallet in the bed. I use this for spot spraying mainly. I want to build a spray boom that is about 8 ft long that can attach to my current tank. This will be for spraying food plots and other small areas. I was thinking about using PVC pipe and a quick disconnect so I can change from the spray gun to the bar. Does anyone have any recommendations for what I want to do?

Thanks,

John

[super55]

First off, Welcome aboard to forum


They are pretty easy to build and all your supplies can be purchased at any ag store such as TSC. For an 8 foot boom you would probably need about 3 maybe 4 nozzles and overall coverage would probably get you about 10 feet due to the V-shaped spray pattern. A lot of people just T into the supply line and then put a valve on the line to the boom than you can still use your wand sprayer while the boom is still on. A quick connect option after the valve might still be a consideration for you so you can take the boom off when not in use and keep it compact.

Do a search on ebay or google images for sprayer boom. It will give you a lot of different types of homemade low cost boom designs. I bought a low cost 3 nozzle spray boom off ebay for 60 bucks a few years back. If you don't find something you like you should be able to find a design that might suit you best and be able to replicate it.

[Kyle_in_Tex]

pvc will work fine. Agree with super55.
Be sure to engineer it to break away with no damage if you hit a fence post or such. 4000 acres is a lot of land to keep up with. Rice? Manvel area? Rosharon? Sugarland? Needville?
Know of some peeps who switched over from rice to crawdads and apparently are doing OK.

[Teamjefe]

Some rice, mainly row crop. Corn, milo, cotton, soybeans.