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just some musings about corn/spraying

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Dave H (MI)

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So don't shoot me, I am just pondering this idea. This would really be only for those who remember me having planter troubles a month back. The old planter lost pressure and had a lot of skips so I went back and double planted the largest field where the problem was the worst. I did pretty good on alignment for an amateur...I have double rows that tend to be no more than a foot off the original row and often much closer. So if it ever drys out I will be running over this mess with my sprayer. 40' width and set up for 30" rows. Since the wheel spacing of the equipment spans a couple rows and given that I have some erratic spacing, I wonder if I would run over less corn if I sprayed across the rows instead of going up and down them? Might be a rougher ride than I am willing to accept for the length of time it would take, but is there any other flaw in my thinking? In retrospect, I think I would rather lose a row here and there than a kidney. :)
 
In this area there are a lot of hills and point rows, most of the co-op operators go across rows figuring they'll do less damage. Of course they run at least 90' booms some 120'.
 
Well...I think that would be obvious, but let me spell it out for you! Airplanes don't have 540 PTO. It's a known fact and I am surprised you overlooked it. Besides, no airplane I could hire had the guts to take off with the sprayer hooked on and full. :)
 
This should come as no surprise to those who are aware of my adventures in row crop farming the past year, but I am VERY VERY good at not looking back! Or down.
 
I was going to add to that post the following line: "Now let's see how many people on the forum today cannot tell when a person is joking." I decided it was too obvious so I did not. Now I am going to go out and sit in front of the TV for a few minutes and try to decide if I insulted your intelligence or you insulted mine! Either way, I just discovered that the strainer on the sprayer is cracked so I have to hunt one up and replace it. Guess I better call and cancel the helicopter.
 
Co-op did that to me once when the ground was soft and wet. Left ruts everywhere in my no-till field. Come harvest had to bounce the combine and tractor and grain cart over them 50 times per round. NEVER AGAIN. Had to work the ground twice afterwards to get them leveled off which was another fun ride and a waste of fuel, time and wear and tear on machinery not to mention stirred up weeds seeds in an otherwise clean no-till field which cost me more money in chemical the following year.
 
Hire a crop duster. After the first time you will wonder why you did not do it sooner. Worked in that business for 19 years. What a blast!!! Steve
 
Well...all kidding aside. It is Glyphosphate...so no. These are small fields also, with big 100 year old trees all around them. You would have to come in with the plane rotated 90 degrees to get thru the tree line, then quick back to horizontal and drop the load, then back 90 degrees to get off the other side. If you decide your interested, let me know and I will sell tickets to help differ the cost. (kidding again)

Well...time for lunch and then out to replace the strainer. My bad shoulder is screaming at me after a day of hauling aggregate in the old C-50 stick shift. Just waiting for the painkillers to kick in.
 
Just spray as you would normally. Some will get run over, but 35 feet of your 40 foot swath will be OK, and some of what does get trampled will come back. Just curious, when you replanted, couldn't you just follow your old tracks and/or rows and get a bit closer to them??

Ben
 
It's a fair question. I did about as good as I could. When I planted it was about as dry as I have ever seen it. Dust did not really leave good clear identifiable tracks. Even the row markers were hard to follow. No moisture to highlight the marker furrow. Those same fields have green stagnant pools spreading across them now. Grand weather we have here these days.
 
Yes, I can appreciate your difficulty, having planted under similar conditions. And, yes, we too have those green ponds....lots of mosquitos too!

Ben
 
Don't look back. My problem is I look back more than front because I'm so worried. Do more harm than good sometimes! Or don't do what I do, go look at it later that day or next. Look at it in a week or two!
 
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