High Boy 3 Wheeler Great For Spot Spraying

High boy 3 wheeler great for spot spraying ATV'S ATV'S 14-4-36 "It makes quick work of spot spraying corn and soybean fields," says Mike Jorgenson, Montevideo, Minn., who modified a 1980 Kawasaki 3-wheel ATV into a mini high clearance spot sprayer. Jorgenson worked with Jim Adolph, a blacksmith in Milan, Minn., who raised the 3-wheeler 3 1/2 ft. and stretched the rear wheels 5 ft. apart. He removed the wheels, installed steel "stilts", then remounted the wheels and added pulleys and belts to drive them. Jorgenson added a 15-gal. spray tank behind the front wheel, a battery-powered electric spray pump, and a spray wand. "It's a good way to make use of 3-wheelers which might not otherwise be used because of the danger of operating them," says Jorgenson. "I had been using a bean bar mounted on my front-end loader, but I became concerned about the riders' expo-sure to chemicals. My mini sprayer has 4 ft. of clearance so I can zip right up to a weed patch at any crop stage.. The sprayer can even go through 5 ft. of corn because the plants will bend over. The wide wheelbase makes it surprisingly stable. I've never tipped it. The wheels are spaced to let me go through 30-in. rows. Tin shields in front of the wheels brush back corn and soybeans to keep the wheels from driving over them. "If I could build it again I'd change a few things. It needs a segmented belt because it does have some slippage in tough going. The 15-gal. spray tank is too big and heavy. I'd use a smaller tank. I also wouldn't try to build it so it can't be convened back to a 3-wheeler. The extra work wasn't worth the effort." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Jorgenson, RR 1, Montevideo, Minn. 56265 '(ph 612 734-4951).

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