Where is the technical info on sprayers

[jdm0125]

I would suggest that you get a 6 roller pump driven by the tractor PTO. A chain attached to the pump and anchored to the tractor keeps the pump from spinning with the shaft. Run the suction from your 15 gallon tank into the pump then the output goes into an adjustable pressure regulator. The pressure regulator should have a bypass that directs the unused liquid back to the tank. This unused liquid circulates to keep all the chemicals mixed. The output from the regulator goes directly to your boom and to your nozzles. With this pump, you can supply 40 foot of boom with nozzles every 12" and still have plenty of GPM to supply the return.
The pressure regulator allows adjustment of the output presssure to the nozzles. Nozzles can be flat or round spray pattern but most folk use the flat spray for chemical application. Depending on the height from the ground of the spray bar and a few other consideations, you chose the nozzle pattern that suits your needs. Each type of nozzle will deliver a set amount of liquid per minute at a specified pressure. MORE pressure= more volume therefore allowing you to either go faster or deliver more water per acre.

Gary I am planning on 24' of spray area 10' boom on each side of tractor and 4'to cover behind the tractor with nozzles every 18". Is the 6 roller pump still going to be what I should get or would that be overkill?
I was planning of hooking a a recirculating line as well. Do you recommend a certain adjustable pressure regulator.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I really havent dealt with sprayers since I was farming so cant recommend a regulator by part number. A 6 roller pump should supply plenty of volume. I know the one we used would supply 40 foot of boom with nozzles every 12" and pressures up to 90 PSI. Well more than enough for your setup. They also make an 8 roller pump. Just look at the specs for the pump and regulator. Ours regulator was solid brass and chemical rated for both pump and all equipment. The boom was 1.125"aluminum pipe to prevent corrosion as theliquid was inside the boom with female couplings welded 12" OC. Each boom folded forward with hydraulic cylinders but also had a break-away connection in case you hit something it would fold back. Most booms I see now, use painted carbon steel pipe for the boom and have rubber hoses attached to supply the liquid.
I think you can find all the pumps and regulators at TSC. I know Agri-Supply carries them + tanks and nozzles perhaps the whole setup. Its been a while since I thumbed thru their catalogue.

 

[snowjoker]

Save alot of grief, buy a 25 gallon atv boomless sprayer and be done with it ! no booms to break, clamps to tighten, pumps to maintain... Best investment i ever made was one...Plys it has a wand for other applications..

 

[jdm0125]

Than you everyone for your input below are some pics of what I came up with. Not 100%done I still have to make boom supports but I did try it out and it works great.

 

[JimRB]

Looks great. My problem with spraying with the tractor is I only do it every 3-5 years so I forget what gear the tractor is in to apply 50 gallons over 4 acres without driving over again and again. I suspect I use gear 7 of 9 gears. I always fail to write down my recipe and my speed. For me I am also constrained by the quantity of rain, or lack thereof, and if there is going to be any washing rains a week later so the horses can go back on after weed killer. It is raining enough lately that I can actually do a pasture spraying with the big sprayer.

I assume someone told you that it is important to drain your lines at the end of the spray season and squirt a few pumps of clean motor oil in the roller pump after you removed the hoses. If you do not you run a good risk of having the pump seize up. It is waste of time to spend an hour disassembling a pump at the beginning of the season because you failed to oil up the pump.

 

[lilranch2001]

Looks great. My problem with spraying with the tractor is I only do it every 3-5 years so I forget what gear the tractor is in to apply 50 gallons over 4 acres without driving over again and again. I suspect I use gear 7 of 9 gears. I always fail to write down my recipe and my speed. For me I am also constrained by the quantity of rain, or lack thereof, and if there is going to be any washing rains a week later so the horses can go back on after weed killer. It is raining enough lately that I can actually do a pasture spraying with the big sprayer.

I assume someone told you that it is important to drain your lines at the end of the spray season and squirt a few pumps of clean motor oil in the roller pump after you removed the hoses. If you do not you run a good risk of having the pump seize up. It is waste of time to spend an hour disassembling a pump at the beginning of the season because you failed to oil up the pump.

I was told to use RV anti freeze, is that not a viable alternative?

 

[jdm0125]

Jimrb
Yes I was informed of that. I received the pump from a friend which he had for years. The first thing I did was soak oil in it and put it on the tractor to lube it up good. The whole project cost me $240 which I think is a great deal considering agri supply wanted $600 for their 6 foot 3pt hitch set up. I made twice the boom for less then half the price. I still need to come up with a spring solution in case I hit something. My idea did not pan out right. Other then that just need boom supports. I might add a boom section selector valve and a psi gauge but will do that at a later time. She is working now and cannot wait to get in the field to use it.

 

[mjncad]

I was told to use RV anti freeze, is that not a viable alternative?

I use regular antifreeze in the pump.

 

[gtrippleb]

Jimrb
Yes I was informed of that. I received the pump from a friend which he had for years. The first thing I did was soak oil in it and put it on the tractor to lube it up good. The whole project cost me $240 which I think is a great deal considering agri supply wanted $600 for their 6 foot 3pt hitch set up. I made twice the boom for less then half the price. I still need to come up with a spring solution in case I hit something. My idea did not pan out right. Other then that just need boom supports. I might add a boom section selector valve and a psi gauge but will do that at a later time. She is working now and cannot wait to get in the field to use it.

I agree that it looks good. This could have been another option for not much more than what you spent. It uses an electric pump instead of a pto/roller pump.
Fimco Large 40 Gal. 3 Point-12V-Bolted Hitch Sprayer - 1014618 | Tractor Supply Company

I have a 16 gallon atv type sprayer with the boomless nozzle that works pretty good.

 

[jdm0125]

I agree that it looks good. This could have been another option for not much more than what you spent. It uses an electric pump instead of a pto/roller pump.
Fimco Large 40 Gal. 3 Point-12V-Bolted Hitch Sprayer - 1014618 | Tractor Supply Company

I have a 16 gallon atv type sprayer with the boomless nozzle that works pretty good.

Man way to bust my bubble I thought I was saving money. I have been to every agri simply and TSC in an hour radius and they did not have that setup. I also looked at a lot of websites but did not think to look at TSC or agri website. I will have $300 in mine by the time I am done.

That's alright another reason i wanted to do this was to try and save time and space loading up different equipment and hauling each one back and forth the 2 miles to the fields and some of my plots are another 2 miles in the opposite direction. That's a lot of road time with the tractor. With my current setup I can attach my hillers with the sprayer and I will be wielding a mount for my ATV spreader on the same rig so I can spray and spread seed for my food plots with the same setup. Should save some money in diesel.