Anybody Have Tips For Spraying Without Foam Markers?

[Renovator]

Put flags at the ends of the field.
Renovator

 

[diyDave]

Drag a chain harrow behind your sprayer- kind of gives you what is known as a visual clue as to where you have been!

 

[J_J]

I have a 110 gal sprayer with 30 ft booms, was spraying Roundup today on some weedy fields and know I am overlapping with the spray. I try to watch close where I'm going but you almost need another set of eyes to watch the sprayer controls and the booms. Anybody have any good ideas so I don't get any overlap? I know they sell a dye that can be put in your tank and have thought of the foam markers but the foam system is quite expensive. Thanks for any ideas.

I don't know how large an area you are spraying, but have you thought about PVC pipe with a marker of some kind to guide you down the center of the spray line. How about a string with markers.

I have read about those tractors with all electronics, that use GPS and other devices to plow, etc, with an operator just sitting there to monitor the equipment. The GPS makes all the turns and operates the spray rigs, etc. Even tells him when the job is finished and logs him out.

 

[elkun1]

use small piece of electrical tape on both sides of windshield. place them on your tracks from the last pass. I would probably set at 29' if your 30 wide. done thousands of acres that way when I use to run spinner trucks, now it's all gps. have made foamers out of propane tanks but you need an air supply.
good luck and drive straight, Ron ps, if you think rndup is expensive you haven't priced fertilizer yet this year.

 

[madpogue]

Well, aside the fact that our 790 doesn't have a windshield, the problem with any of these kinds of methods, including flagging the ends of the rows, is that they only work on relatively straight, flat plots. We have a four-acre area infested with crown vetch (BTW, the only thing that works on it is Transline, at over $50 / acre ), and it's not only trapezoidal in shape, with one very sharp angle, it's on the top of a ridge with 12-ish degree slopes on either side. It's about impossible to do simple, straight rows on it, because from one side of the ridge, you can't see the rest of the row over the ridge. We ran the sprayer pump at about the lowest pressure possible without making it "dribble" (about 16-18 psi), and at that rate, we still could barely maintain a low enough ground speed to make decent turns, and keep the tractor going in any semblance of straight rows.

 

[AndyMA]

My sprayer is like yours. If I'm spraying something like Roundup (try Eraiser, it's half the cost), .

I'm assumin "Eraiser" is a generic form of Roundup. I'm not familiar with it. Do you have a link or source?

Thanks

Andy

 

[madpogue]

The generic form of RoundUp is Glyphosate. There are now oodles of generic brands. Our Farm & Fleet carries a brand called CropSmart. Just google "glyphosate" or "cropsmart" and you find all the 411 you need.

 

[elkun1]

Sounds to me like you answered your own question. If I was spending 50 plus/acre i think i'd be putting a foamer on it. payback won't take to long. especially if theres any damage from overlap. for me, if all i was doing was approx. 4 acres and i could see my tracks i'd rig up something to give a reference from my last pass. I haven't been around crown vetch for years since we moved from the midwest but i seem to remember using banvel/2,4,d and dinging it pretty hard. it's a nasty one.