Carryall for Sprayer/Misc

[cschannuth 3,816]

I’ve posted pics of my spray setup before and I’ve never been happy with it. The sprayer is great but my father-in-laws carryall was too low and too big to spray effectively. It was so low that the spray width was only about 7’ wide when it hit the ground. Needless to say, I had to run at top speed to avoid using way too much product. That was hard on the tractor with all the weight and still applied too much product. 

 

To to remedy that I built my own carrier. Now it’s higher and tighter to the tractor and the spray width is almost 14’ wide.   I used it last night and it worked much better. Plus, I was able to slow down to 2nd gear Hi range and I used about half the weed killer I used to use while getting good coverage. 

 

 

I plan to use this for other chores too. Time for final paint and it’ll be done. 

 

[AMC RULES 37,129]

 Always wondered what you were doing to your lawn...

mind if I ask here, what product you're using?    

[Herder 2,354]

6 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

 Always wondered what you were doing to your lawn...

mind if I ask here, what product you're using?    

Like a golf course, and the carrier came out great to.

[dclarke 4,032]

Nice job on that, Craig!  

[cschannuth 3,816]

2 hours ago, Herder said:

Like a golf course, and the carrier came out great to.

 

3 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

 Always wondered what you were doing to your lawn...

mind if I ask here, what product you're using?    

 

Thanks. I’m kind of a nut when it comes to the yard. My boys have a lawn business too. Any cheap generic fertilizers will do.

 

This is what I do:

 

Fall:

 

Sept - aerate, K31 overseed, and fertilizer

Nov - last mow after frost if possible

 

Spring:

 

Roll lawn at first spring thaw

March - fertilizer w/crabgrass prevention 

April - spray 2,4D for weeds

May - fertilizer w/crabgrass prevention 

Early June - spray 2,4D for weeds

July - OPTIONAL grub killer

 

i got away from doing it for a few years because of time and money. Now I use it as an excuse to work the Horses. 

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

   As far as controlling how much product you are using, you could add a pressure regulator to the main spray line. Or just add a t fitting with a ball valvewith a return line back to the tank.  A third is to just add water and use less product in the mix.

 

 We just use a catch bottle on one spray nozzle and make our calculations from that

[cschannuth 3,816]

11 minutes ago, ohiofarmer said:

   As far as controlling how much product you are using, you could add a pressure regulator to the main spray line. Or just add a t fitting with a ball valvewith a return line back to the tank.  A third is to just add water and use less product in the mix.

 

 We just use a catch bottle on one spray nozzle and make our calculations from that

 

Those ideas make too much sense and are all way too logical and wouldn't have let me justify a night in the shop to weld this thing up...LOL...