Dear Eddie,
Yes, you will track chemicals around. If you are going to spray going forward, you probably want to have the spray booms outboard of your tires. Herbicide will transfer, and you will have tire marks, aka dead grass, all over.
Like Woodlandfarms, I priced out the build your own, but I came out $50 above buying the package. So, I bought the package. We use it during weed season, and again to put out fire retardant. Yes, it sits idle most of the year, but it saves so many days of time during our noxious weed reduction season that it paid for itself in the first year.
I highly recommend plumbing in a recirculation loop, which enables good mixing, and the ability to spray wetable powders and high solids.
How much land? Depends on the spray rate, and the concentration of the herbicide. We do only spot spraying to remove invasive weeds, e.g. poison hemlock, poison oak, as an adjunct to other methods, such as mowing, pulling, and grazing.
All the best,
Peter
Interesting setup.
I'm still in the stalling, hoping for a great deal to show up in getting a sprayer catagory, so I don't know anything about them yet.
It looks like your driving over the chemicals after you spray them. Does this have any effect on the plants or your tires? It's not something that I think I'll do, but since I have some pallet forks and I'm leaning towards just about anything but a three point set up, you have me curious.
How much land can you do with 25 gallons? Do you have any comments on how the electric pump works? OK? No good?
Thanks
Eddie
