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Tom

02-15-2003 19:29:23




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Looking at buying a spray rig with a 500 gal tank to spray pasture. Can't decide if I want a boom or just the cluster. The boom would be better for windy days,can anybody give me some advice? Thanks




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Hugh MacKay

02-16-2003 08:40:51




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 Re: Spray rig question in reply to Tom, 02-15-2003 19:29:23  
Personally I would go with boom. I know the cluster seems like a good idea. It takes very little wind to distort the spray pattern. Boom sprayers are bad enough when it comes right down to actual job of spraying. Many times I have felt mist on my face from boom in what you call light winds. All my spraying was done with Farmalls, and you would think that would put you up out of drift path of spray. I used to do custom spraying of corn with 36' boom, bottom half of tractor would turn white and we shut down in wind. I have even sprayed at night trying to beat wind.

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paul

02-16-2003 14:27:32




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 Re: Re: Spray rig question in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-16-2003 08:40:51  
Here in southern MN I have never even seen a cluster sprayer, other then pictures. Everything is boom. I think clusters were mentioned in our RUP spraying course, they kinda glossed over them because no one uses them here, & they seemed pretty happy about that.

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Hugh MacKay

02-16-2003 16:16:49




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 Re: Re: Re: Spray rig question in reply to paul, 02-16-2003 14:27:32  
I attended a refresher course here, spray operator now have to be lisenced. I have been spraying for 40 years, didn't have any problems with test. Biggest problems guys had here was converting to metric. I was kind of unique, I had been using liters per acre for a decade. Guy running test said he had never heard that one before.

As you said, the authorities were quite happy no one was using clusters.

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