Mercer County, Ohio on the Indiana line | This setup is pretty slick, but if a guy is looking to go a little more budgeted I’ve got some ideas.
Our tanks are in the center of the trailer with enough room in the middle for a pair of 2” pumps. The inlet and outlet of each pump has a T valve that can switch flow from into and out of the tender trailer quickly and allows for easy pump priming. We have two Napa power pro pumps and the cost of both 2” pumps is less than one good 3” Honda and if one goes down we aren’t dead in the water so we use them longer than we ever trusted when we had a single pump. Another benefit is the added ability to pump 2 products to planter if a guy does infurrow and 2x2 products. At the sprayer I just put a 3” to a pair of 2” adapter so I can use both hoses. A guy could run a single 3” and put the 2” to 3” adapter on the trailer if they’ll never need the dual product capability.
On our bulk chems we put a tee into the hose going to the sprayer and tee’d the chem in there instead of having to run our liberty through any venturis. It saved a lot of foaming issues we fought in the past. As long as the sprayer can pull a little pressure on the incoming hose the chem pumps from the co-op can push the chem into that tee without idling the 2” pump any. If not the 2” pump needs idled so you don’t over pressure the chem pumps.
We put all of our jugged chemicals in through the inductor on the rogator and use the factory jug rinse there. Saved us from buying an extra inductor and Venturi system. There is room behind the tanks for 2 skids worth of jugs.
We throw our bulk chem totes on the step deck with room for 6 totes.
When filling the trailer with water we add our AMS so there is adequate time to melt the AMS and fully blend prior to any injection of Chemicals. Have to watch dicamba applications because unless the trailer tanks are cone bottoms you have to rinse and rinse and rinse to get the ams out of them to prevent dicamba volatility. (One of our co-ops had this issue and smoked a pile of neighboring beans till their trailer was rinsed out with enough loads of straight water)
Edited by Forty2366 2/11/2023 06:03
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Spray tender trailer ideas
