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Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom

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Markiess

06-29-2006 08:52:01




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Hey guys, looking to build a small 25-30 gallon sprayer for spot praying in my fields...also use on my lawn to control weeks.

I'd like to have a main 8-10 foot boom, then side booms that can extend out to get 12-15 feet at a time....
woudl like to power off an electric 12 volt pump...I've seen 3 GPM electric pumps, also seen cheaper 1 gpm pumps...
Was thinking maybe that one pump could do the center 8 feet, then when I needed a wide section covered, I'd turn on the 2nd pump to get the outer sections sprayed....
Does anyone have any plans - where do I begin?
What kind of nozzles, and what kind of pumps...was thinking of using a regular 10 cubic foot dump trailer as the base for the sprayer?

Thanks!

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paul

06-29-2006 22:15:15




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 Re: Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom in reply to Markiess, 06-29-2006 08:52:01  
The boomless nozzles are basically illegal to use with herbicides up around these parts - you have no control, uneven application, & lots & lots of drift potential. I hear of them from down south so they must have their place, but you couldn't give one away around here. Would work with insecticides or for fruit trees tho, but not for ground application of herbicides.

You only want one pump period; from there go through a $70 regulator that has 3 outputs. You can turn the handle to 5 or 6 different possibilites/ combinations of the 3 outputs. Likely plumb your 3 outputs to center section, left wing, right wing. The regulator also has a pressure regulator on it, lets you adjust to different pressures for different products - the bypass from the regulator spits back to the tank, to agitate it & keep your chemicals mixed. Most of the time you will be happy with 20 lbs of pressure on the boom, but depends on the nozzles you choose.

Flat fan nozzles at 20 inch spacing is the cheap start, you can pick differet tips or less-drift, less volume, whatever....

--->Paul

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Jerry (AL)

06-29-2006 15:31:00




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 Re: Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom in reply to Markiess, 06-29-2006 08:52:01  
I bought a 25 gallon ATV sprayer for around $180. It does a great job. I spray my corn for the deer with it which is roundup ready. This think\g has a boomless nozzle and is 12 volt. I can spry about a 16 foot strip at a time, or 5 3 foot rows. I think the boomless nozzle is a good way to go. Cuts down on a lot of cost plus knocking things with the booms. Might want to look into. There is also a nozzle which sprays to the side for spraying under fences and ditches.

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John e.c.MI

06-29-2006 10:51:30




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 Re: Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom in reply to Markiess, 06-29-2006 08:52:01  
E-mail me and I"ll send you some pictures of a 30gal. 3pt. sprayer I built this past winter. Mine has 20 foot booms and a 12v pump. It really works slick. I have used it for spraying skips that I missed with my big sprayer and many times in our vegetables where you only need to spray 10-30 gal at a time.



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JMS/MN

06-29-2006 09:01:26




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 Re: Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom in reply to Markiess, 06-29-2006 08:52:01  
Search for 'sprayingsystems' and 'teejet' for info on pumps, nozzles, nozzle spacing, etc. Running two different pumps off of one tank may give you calibration problems. Can mix for output of one pump, but it may not match output of the one running the two booms. Simpler to have one pump, regulator, bypass, etc. Calibrate using just the center boom, then with the wings working- see if there is a difference. Your ratio from narrow to wide is at least 1:3.

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jc

06-30-2006 12:23:50




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 Re: Making a sprayer w/12 ft boom in reply to JMS/MN, 06-29-2006 09:01:26  
Calibration is tip size,pressure at tip, and ground speed. As long as all are the same the application rate will be same even if you use a pump for each tip.



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