High-Clearance Side Dresser Built Out Of Cyclo Planter

High-Clearance Side Dresser Built Out Of Cyclo Planter FERTILIZER APPLICATION Fertilizer Application (58f) 19-6-4 "I've been using Cady spoke wheels to sidedress nitrogen on corn since 1989 but I wanted to come up with a way to sidedress corn up to waist high without doing damage," says Scott Luckett, Junction, Ill. He ended up building a high-clearance sidedress rig from scratch using parts off an old IH Cyclo 400 planter. "I apply half my nitrogen with the planter and half is sidedressed. I also wanted to apply 2-4D and/or Accent when sidedressing. So I had to have room for both nitrogen and spray tanks, and it had to be built heavy. "The Cady wheels mount on a 3-pt. mounted pivoting toolbar at the back of the rig. A 100-gal. water tank on top of the bar provides the needed down pressure. The bar raises and lowers hydraulically. When in the down position, crop clearance is 30 in. at the lowest point." He used steel, wheels, gears, hubs, and other miscellaneous parts off the Cyclo to build a heavy-duty 4-wheel cart with caster wheels on front. The herbicide spray boom mounts between the Cady wheels and the cart. He also uses the cart with a hooded spray boom. The first cart I built in 1990 took me about 6 months to design and build. I liked it so much, I built a second cart and mounted a spray boom on it fitted with spray hoods to run over the row. It only took 2 months to build the second cart." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Scott Luckett, Rt. 1 Box 44A, Junction, Ill. 62954 (ph 618-272-4331).

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