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cropsey, il 61731 | I have a similar year gallenberg 600 that had a naturally aspirated 5.9 cummins. I was a dog of a sprayer on any hills and I was told that it was related to hydraulic system capacity. However, installation of a 5.9 turbo intercooled engine has made it into a monster. I have the same booms (except one of the former owners ran it in a sprayer demo derby) and they seem strong enough. I have one cylinder or valve that leaks down slowly, so I have to be watching it. I like the boom controls on the hydro lever, the JD cab works fine, it has a huge product pump, and most of all I don't think any sprayer can beat the ride through the field (I've heard JD's are pretty good, but this is almost unreal at times).
I bought mine for $13K in tough shape (weak motor, needed boom work, odd nozzle spacing-24", etc). It came with 18.4x38 tires and I found some 12.4x46 tires/wheels and installed them so I ran down less crop, added shut off valves at each airbag - it will let all the air out otherwise trying to find level, updated the monitor system - boom shutoffs, flow meter, flow controller and some other odds and ends (besides the motor). 600 gallons is not a lot if you spray high volumes, but I went down to 7.5gpa for roundup and this year I'm getting a much better kill (high concentration helps?) - this way one load does 80 acres.
There is a guy in Wisconsin that makes a loop through several states and was involved in the design, testing, service, etc and seems to work pretty reasonable. He can tell you what's about to break and knows how to do a pretty thurough test of the hydraulic system. He also can build new booms, get hydrostat parts, and is helpful on the phone.
I did some custom spraying with it, but it became more trouble that it was paying (the old motor didn't help), so now it's way overkill for me. I still like having fewer tire tracks in the beans though. One drawback is that these were designed for flat potato fields with bumpy endrow in wisconsin and they don't have loads of ground clearance. I'm guessing mine has 36" of clearance and I've thought about raising it up, but then I find something more practical to do like work on removing rusty exhaust manifold bolts.
Hope this helps,
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good and bad, 1990 gallenberg sprayer, need advice
