How do you spray around poles and trees

[David.]

Drill man does the spraying here, so I make the tramlines correspond with the poles so the boom end just passes by, with a dip of the clutch in case of contact. The rest of the tramlines come wherever they do thereafter.
With modern sprayers and gps driven individual nozzle shutoffs, this would surely eliminate any remaining waste and potential overlapping under my system.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Last time I saw a pole, spraying I shouted "voetsak outta here" and he took off like a missile, dirty bugger

Czechs in the mail @Farmer Roy

 

[2wheels]

Just for the record, I don’t have ANY power poles anyway


but, pre “fancy gps”, we’d just do a circle around. Sod stopping & folding the boom & reversing up etc etc . . .

try doing that on contract work here, the farmer would have a hissy fit over the wheelings.

 

[Farmer Roy]

try doing that on contract work here, the farmer would have a hissy fit over the wheelings.

err, why ?






Contract work is paid by the hectare, not the hour . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

try doing that on contract work here, the farmer would have a hissy fit over the wheelings.

the other option is just driving around it & leaving an area unsprayed . . .

 

[2wheels]

more wheelings in the crop. have to agree though, driving round is the simplest way.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Depends what I am spraying. A residual herbicide drive round so there is no unsprayed bits, particularly for trees where which can result in quite large gaps otherwise. Anything else fold up.

 

[Kildare]

Any body got worse than this.

 

[Romeogolf]

Any body got worse than this. View attachment 952438

Are the trees in a line? They look like they may be. If so, I would be drilling/spraying with them not across them. I always think it’s best to have one, or at the most two, annoying break-back tickling tram lines, and the rest of the work clear in cases like this.
To be honest if this was my field I think I’d run a grass belt down the tree line and split the field.

 

[David.]

There will be a reason he drills it that way, I expect.
But think I would put in a mini headland around the trees, personally.
As an aside, under BPS rules I believe one is not supposed to till under the canopy of trees, does the same rule extend to spraying under there?