Swather Powered 60 ft Sprayer

Swather powered 60 ft sprayer SPRAYING Miscellaneous 10-4-9 If you're tired of not being able to see spray nozzles when they plug you'll be interested in this swather-mounted sprayer built by Alberta farmer Doug Edgar. The 60-ft. wide folding spray boom mounts on Edgar's self-propelled Deere 2420. It has a 12-ft. main section and two 24-fat. booms that are carried by 14-in. radial car tires that provide good "float" over wet terrain. It also has 3-ft. breakaway sections at the ends. "Visibility is great. You can see every nozzle without straining from the cab," says Edgar. He built the frame from 4-in. steel tubing and used 1-in. PVC for the spray lines. A 400 gal. spray tank mounts at the center, serviced by a 2-in.. transfer pump that aids both in filling the tank and in mixing chemicals. The sprayer's Dempster ground-driven pump ù chain-driven by a sprocket affixed to a swather drive wheel ù adapts to changes in ground speed. An unusal feature of the sprayer is the perforated plastic shield Edgar rigged up to shield the boom from winds. The plastic material, made by Tensar Corp., breaks up winds that could cause chemical drift, yet doesn't affect visibility like hooded spray shields. Edgar says he built the spray boom because he was tired of looking behind him for plugged spray nozzles and because he went to tramlines in what ù made by blocking off a run 4 ft.from either end of his 30-ft. grain drill ù and so he needed narrower equipment. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Edgar, Rt. 3, Innisfail, Alberta, Canada T0M 1A0 (ph 403 227-2443).

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