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jbweston
Posted 6/12/2009 19:36 (#742942)
Subject: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



Central Ohio		Does anyone do a substantial number of spraying acres with a UTV sprayer? I guess substantial would be 500+?

If so, what is your setup? What is the largest sprayer one of those new gen could pull (like the gator xuv, etc)? I am thinking up toward 40-60 foot booms.

Pros and cons?

Looking to do some early burn down or some early emergence soybean spraying or dribbling N or corn.

Thanks.
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TJH
Posted 6/12/2009 19:58 (#742966 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: Re: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



NEIA		Most I have done in one day with mine is 90 acres. Did it mostly in an afternoon. This is with an atv pulling a sprayer I made. 100 gal. tnak with a 28 ft boom. Covers 11 rows. 12 mph, 30 psi. 7 gal/ac. Using a 5hp transfer pump( think banjo ). Could be smaller. Used to use a 3 hp one. Plenty of pressure and volumn. Don't know how big of a boom it could handle , but double what I am using would be no problem. Know some guys one summer needed their beans sprayed(before R-up)terribly wet. They built 2 pull types and sprayed about 300 ac each. Did it in a couple days. The next year I built mine. We all use them every year for something.
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GinNB
Posted 6/12/2009 20:05 (#742972 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



 We do a lot of spraying with this rig.  Not 500 acres/season, but 500 acres of perfectly flat corn, beans, or whatever would be easier (certainly faster) than the 200-300 or more that we do of wild blueberries with it.  I don't have updated pix, but we've got a bigger bike (600 Grizzly), better pump (gas-driven Ace centrifugal), and raised boom cradles now.  Otherwise, basically the same rig.  Booms are only 25', but that's plenty long for where this thing goes.  It handles 100 gallons easily on relatively flat/smooth ground.

 

 

 





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commissioner
Posted 6/12/2009 20:59 (#743035 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



southern Illinois		We spray about 300 ac of wheat in the spring, then about 500 ac of early burn down with this 50 boom rig that started life as a pick up sprayer.
My brothers spray over a thousand with a polaris 800 4 wheeler and 60 ft boomed J and M sprayer.
Both run about 10mph and 5 gal per ac.
You can cover alot of ground while nothing else is going on and never leave a track in the field.

http://www.jminnovations.net/products/atvmini.php


One of the nicest things about them is that you can spray about any day you want too so you can spray when the weather is nice and not just when you have too.

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David in MD
Posted 6/12/2009 21:28 (#743066 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



I spray several hundred acres a year with a Honda Rancher (350 I think) and a 200 gallon pull type sprayer with 40 ft booms. With the tank full I can spray 8 mph in second gear. At half full I can get to third gear and 13 mph. I'm sure a bigger atv would go faster. My sprayer is a tricycle riding on three 15" race car tires. The tricycle arangement keeps all the weight off the atv. If I get stuck I unhook the atv, reposition it on dryer ground, and snatch the sprayer out with a long rope. The pump is a single piston John Blue ground driven pump which can be shut off with a pull rope. Agitation is with a 2 gpm 12 volt diaphram pump which should be bigger. I would never use this to spray atrazine or anything else that is difficult to keep suspended. My sprayer never had a foam marker but I've rigged up my EZ Guide on the atv. This sprayer is so simple to hook up and go that it's my first choice if I only have a little bit to do. It's great in tall hay as it's so light in a couple of days the tracks dissappear. This spring I was running the atv sprayer while Dad was running the pull type putting the last shot of N on wheat and I can still see his tracks in the wheat but I can't see the atv sprayer tracks. My only complaint is my throttle thumb gets numb after several hours of use. To me the Honda is just a little tractor, couldn't imagine riding the thing just for fun.
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cah
Posted 6/13/2009 18:56 (#744006 - in reply to #743066)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?



Western Nebraska		David, they make kits to put a longer lever on the throttle, thereby using the entire palm of your hand, or convert it to twist throttle like a motorcycle.
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jbweston
Posted 6/12/2009 23:04 (#743204 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: To all who have replied....



Central Ohio		...thanks for your replies.

One other question.

Did you eat/breath a lot of spray when using an ATV/UTV for spraying? Did you wear a mask or suit?

Thanks.
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Hamstn
Posted 6/13/2009 00:19 (#743303 - in reply to #743204)
Subject: Re: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?


SW Idaho		If you get some on you when spraying then it is to windy to be out there. I pull a 110gal 12 x 22 row band sprayer with everything from a 425 to 700 polaris. Spayed Lorsban lots of times over the years with this rig and no mask and I am still kicking.
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GinNB
Posted 6/13/2009 07:29 (#743424 - in reply to #743204)
Subject: RE: To all who have replied....



 Ours runs at 14gpa with low drift nozzles (8003LP Teejets at the moment), but there is a bit of drift at times.  If I knew that the AIs were signigicantly better I'd get some in the right size and stick them in.  I put a little canvas cabin on it with windows two seasons ago to help with drift, but the fellow running it complained that he couldn't see the sprayer so it turned into a sunshade with open sides, and then the frame got damaged this spring so now it's got nothing on it again.  He wears a full-faced 3M respirator most of the time when he's running it and an open-faced one the rest of the time.
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macfarms
Posted 6/13/2009 01:00 (#743333 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?


sc kansas		I am in the process of building one now. I have most of the parts but am debating on weather to run 100 gal in the bed of my polaris ranger with a 40 foot boom in the receiver hitch or weather to build a 200 gallon pull type for it.
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Elmbar
Posted 6/13/2009 06:58 (#743409 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: RE: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?


Chesterville, Ontario, Canada		have a look at this, have seen one but not used one. was a used one for sale at Benninger Equipment of Chatham, Ontario. Not sure if it is still there.

http://www.msspray.com/Client/page2.asp?page=226&clef=99&Clef2=22
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Badger
Posted 6/13/2009 07:21 (#743415 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: I was doing 1100a of beets


Huntley Montana

 When I WAS a beet grower I was using 2 GATORs to band spray 1100-1200a of beets 4-5x a season.  4gpa 65 gallon tank in the gator & pulling a 12-24 spray boom.   Watch your breezes & try to turn into the wind & you won't get as much drift on you. Sprayed  a lot of insecticide in the tank mixes. Good operator could adv 2 loads hr @ 17a a load.

 DO NOT use a briggs & scrap iron engine. Honda's would last 4-5 yrs, briggs VANGAURDS would be SHOT in 1 yr. Used a 6 roller pump, had to plumb them backwards to use the "cheaper" pumps. In was out & out was in, because the reduction was turning the wrong way.

 Do not miss those days.  Dought if I'll be raising beets again due to a coop that went bad

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rforro
Posted 6/13/2009 08:52 (#743489 - in reply to #742942)
Subject: Re: Substantial spraying with ATV or UTV (Gator, etc)?


Romeo, MI		I use a J and M 200 gal. sprayer with a 60 ft. boom. I pull it with a 1993 jeep wrangler, cheaper than a 4 wheeler. Spray about 13mph, tee jet controler to control rate, and a trimble 250 for guidance. Spray around 1500 acres a year with it. No problem doing 200 to 300 acres a day, if I have the nurse tank with me.
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