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Saw a first yesterday, spraying fields

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Yesterday I saw a new JD green sprayer and a semi tanker. The tanker was parked side of road and sprayer was connected to tanker with a 2 to 3 inch hose filling up.

Is this something new or perhaps I just don't get out much?
 
You don't get out much. Big sprayers need big tanks and short fill times to cover a lot of acres/day. They don't have time to stand around waiting on a garden hose to fill the sprayer.
 
On my little one man operation I use a 2 pump, at idle, and 2 hose to fill my 600 gal sprayer. Only takes a few minutes. The trucks which fill my tanks have 3 hoses, and have to adapt down to fit my connections.
 
Yep. Should be illegal for the semi to sit on the road. I cant stand farmers who think just because they own huge equipment they can block the road for as long as they like. Had more than one occasion when I hade a load of bales and farmer isnt even neAr his truck and I have to sit there and wait till he sprays his tank empty before he moves his semi. They can park the semi in the field of on the road. Told him if it happened again it would be lit on fire or pushed of the road. They own 1000s of acres and think they own the road as well. Seems the bigger the farmer the worse they are. Absolutely no reason they cant park on the field. There excuse is the might get stuck or semi is to low to the ground. Is no reason they cant have a nice approach built for it.

Rant over.
 
You would complain too if you had to sit there in a semi for 20-25 minutes watching him spray because his time is more important than yours. I haul bales for a living and dont see no reason for any jack asz blocking a road for there own convenience.
 
Ive seen such HUGE sprayers and nurse trucks often but I admit I get across the US often.

John T
 
The semi wasn't blocking the road. He was pull off the country road same way semis are parked when farmers are harvesting crops.
No traffic back up.
 
Wow ! George says there is a truck parked on the side of the road. In moments we have a member ready .... to light it on fire .... . The internet is an amazing place , isnt it.
 
This is what I put together years ago and Son is still using it. We try to load the sprayer on field headlines or waterways but if none is available in the field we will load on the road. When we fold the boom it is the same width as just meeting the sprayer so the road is not blocked.---Tee
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We try to park on field ends but I will not back off the road into standing crop!!
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Bought this little 28 ft.? trailer years ago--holds 3 1500 gal plastic water tanks plus a round-up shuttle plus the mixing cone.
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I do the mixing and have a batch mixed so when Son backs up to the truck all he has to do is hook up the hose and turn the valve.
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Son still runs the Deere 6500 sprayer I bought years ago, not pretty but works good--only holds 400 gal but it only takes 6 minutes to refill it and he is back to spraying.
 
I took a couple of my grandkids down to watch this chopper/sprayer loading from his tender truck. We sat in the Gator and shot a little video. No, we don't have corn full tassel in May. This was a couple years ago mid summer.
chopper video
 
Son got done the first of May--It was drier than a pop-corn fart and some laid in dry dirt so he has corn 4 inches tall and some just spiking---Tee
 
I finished corn in April and just finished beans yesterday except for some wheat that in am going to make silage with and double crop. Its dry here and hot too!
 
We are dry but we did get a couple of half in. rains to get the ones in dry dirt started. Plant in dust--your bins will bust!---Tee
 
Tee, no I didn't get a chance to talk to him. I've always been curious as to how many gallons they hold. I think they only put down about 3 gallons per acre so they can get a quite a few acre per fill. I'll have to visit with the tender guy while he is waiting next time.
 
Well some was dust and some not so dry. Where I finished yesterday I had some suppy sand and about planted the 4840! The 8300 blew a steering line and it's some weird thread so planting with out 4x4 sucks on the loose sand.
 
Look up John Deere load command, 4 inch flexible fill with magnetic coupler. Operator controls from the sprayer seat and fill time is 2-3 minutes for 1200 gallons. Few of them out this way.
 
Need to watch some YouTube videos and catch up on the progress being made in agriculture.

Vito
 
I own and truck and a farm and haul grain and am with you on trucks parking on the road ! These guys can go pay huge money for land and gobble up all they can but wont spend a thousand dollars to make a usable approach to get off the road ! Better yet they park on the road then use a grain buggy and crowd the ditch and pound the edge of the field in and fill the ditch full of dirt and take off to the next field . Then say its the town or countys job to clean the ditch ! 90 percent of the same operators that do this all have trucks and excavators and dozers but wont use them ! So thats my rant !
 
Those retired reefer vans work good for that. Everything is secure, out of the weather, empties not flying around in the wind and it's no ones business as to what is in there.
 
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