Sprayer boom or boomless?

[Marveltone]

I bought a spot sprayer ti fit on the back of the four-wheeler, mostly for poison ivy control. I'm thinking of making a boom system for it for other applications.

Joe

 

[georgia jeff]

I pull my sprayer on a cart and the nozzles are about 24 inches above the ground and reaches the 8 ft width. I also take the boom (even though it is boomless it does have a 2 ft. boom) and mount it to the cargo box on my golf cart which raises it up off the ground and expands the width of coverage it will spray.

 

[Agrantina]

Joe, just make sure your pump is at least 2gpm.. I tried the same thing on my spot sprayer and with the 1.5 pump it didnt have enough power to spray very well...

AndyG

 

[Marveltone]

Joe, just make sure your pump is at least 2gpm.. I tried the same thing on my spot sprayer and with the 1.5 pump it didnt have enough power to spray very well...

AndyG

Good to know. I'll take note next time I'm at the farm.

Joe

 

[ole farmerbuck]

I have one boomless nozzle on back of my 4 wheeler on a 25gal tank. I installed a by-pass valve so if its windy i can turn down the pressure. Works great. I can spray a path about 6ft wide or up to about 15ft by rotating the nozzle up.

 

[jbooth]

TeeJet offers boomless nozzles down to accomidate pumps of about 1 GPM flow. The main thing when selecting a nozzle is to keep nozzle flow below pump flow so pressure can be maintained. I have used TeeJet exclusively so I can't speak to some of the other brands. I use 1/4KLC-9 on 2.1 GPM pump.

Below is the flow ratings of a TeeJet Nozzle 1/4KLC-5, 9, & 18.

1/4KLC-5

-----------Nozzle
PSI-------flow-------pray pattern at 36" height
20-------- 0.7------- 17'
30-------- 0.9--------18'
40---------1----------21'

1/4KLC-9

20---------1.3--------18
30---------1.6--------19
40---------1.8--------21


1/4KLC-18

20---------2.5--------22
30---------3.1------- 24
40---------3.6--------26

 

[bigtiller]

The booms on my 10 foot pull behind sprayer are spring loaded. If I get to close to a tree or fence the boom swings back and after passing the obstical the spring brings the boom back into place.

It would be fun to have a foam marker on it.:thumbsup: