How to make trailed sprayer + tractor damage crop less?

[Feldspar]

Looking for any nifty products / designs that will help our tractor and trailed sprayer damage our crops less. We have a Fastrac and Horsch and there are a rough bits and sharp angles that I noticed last year damaged the heads of our wheat when doing T3 and protein spray. I was thinking of something like a heavy canvas with fastening points to sling under the tractor. What else do others use to help this?

 

[Thomas Simpson]

I have cut up an old ibc and put it in front of the front linkage and front axle to gently push the crop down. Just reduced the damage to stems from any sharp edges.

 

[Adeptandy]

I’ve found the SP is the only answer for clearance

I know, no help, I’ll get my coat

 

[Bobthebuilder]

I have a couple of bits of stock board 1st bit fastens onto holes of the folded up front links then overlaps 2nd sheet which has a couple of metal strips bolted to some spare holes in tractor chassis and reaches right to the sprayer hitch, horsch sprayer has flat underside anyway, but to be honest whatever you use it will just fill up with rubbish/mud/water and hang even lower unless it is a proper metal guard

 

[sahara]

My father had a tarpaulin sheet made up to do just as you are thinking, it hooked on to some thing he had bolted onto the front tombstone and then went all the way back and tied on to the boom frame, this was on a mounted sprayer though.
It was far from perfect, and as @Bobthebuilder has described it did fill up with mud etc but it was judged to be an improvement on just bashing everything.

 

[melted welly]

As above, used to spray with fastrac demount and it collected barley heads for fun on the underside crossmember. Osr was even worse. made a frame and tarpaulin that went front to back. Made big difference.

 

[Nearly]

Old sprayer tractor had deflectors in front of front wheels and on cab steps to split the crop like a mini combine divider.
Very effective for a bent bit of tin.

Current one has plastic sheet on front linkage under and through to the rear linkage.

 

[Phil P]

I’ve found the SP is the only answer for clearance

I know, no help, I’ll get my coat

Beat me too it , it was my exact thought I had when I read the OP.

 

[Chae1]

Belly sheets are a good idea, but they also collect flammable debris. Oil drips etc.

Might be the best thing for it though!

 

[2wheels]

we had a belly sheet made with curtainsider material mounted on a roller on the front tank. it extended right to the back of the rear mounted sprayer. worked well and just rolled it on to the roller when finished.

 

[Chae1]

we had a belly sheet made with curtainsider material mounted on a roller on the front tank. it extended right to the back of the rear mounted sprayer. worked well and just rolled it on to the roller when finished.

Montrose rope and sail made me a couple. Need to get 1 on soon, be going through osr again doing flowering spray.

 

[2wheels]

Montrose rope and sail made me a couple. Need to get 1 on soon, be going through osr again doing flowering spray.

aye it was the ropey that made ours.

 

[Flat 10]

Looking for any nifty products / designs that will help our tractor and trailed sprayer damage our crops less. We have a Fastrac and Horsch and there are a rough bits and sharp angles that I noticed last year damaged the heads of our wheat when doing T3 and protein spray. I was thinking of something like a heavy canvas with fastening points to sling under the tractor. What else do others use to help this?

This is very low tech, grandad had the same on his 4000!!! You shouldn’t have made the tramlines so deep

 

[Feldspar]

This is very low tech, grandad had the same on his 4000!!! You shouldn’t have made the tramlines so deep

Where can I get someone to make up a canvas sheet? We have old trailer sheets to our own sizing so I guess someone must be able to make something up.

 

[Feldspar]

Montrose rope and sail made me a couple. Need to get 1 on soon, be going through osr again doing flowering spray.

I will give them a ring.

 

[Feldspar]

we had a belly sheet made with curtainsider material mounted on a roller on the front tank. it extended right to the back of the rear mounted sprayer. worked well and just rolled it on to the roller when finished.

Nice!

 

[Will7]

Belly Sheet (Long) – The Tarpaulin Company

www.thetarpaulincompany.co.uk

 

[Feldspar]

Old sprayer tractor had deflectors in front of front wheels and on cab steps to split the crop like a mini combine divider.
Very effective for a bent bit of tin.

Current one has plastic sheet on front linkage under and through to the rear linkage.

I remember seeing a few pictures of a divider set up. We have wide wheels on all year (especially this year!) so the crop parting bit is less important. Sounds like some form of sheet under the tractor would be best.

 

[Flat 10]

Where can I get someone to make up a canvas sheet? We have old trailer sheets to our own sizing so I guess someone must be able to make something up.

Buy a hand held eyelet crimper and use an old lorry curtain and a stanley knife? Simpers in cambridge might do something? I'd do a bit of trial and error first until you know the ideal shape and size

 

[Feldspar]

My father had a tarpaulin sheet made up to do just as you are thinking, it hooked on to some thing he had bolted onto the front tombstone and then went all the way back and tied on to the boom frame, this was on a mounted sprayer though.
It was far from perfect, and as @Bobthebuilder has described it did fill up with mud etc but it was judged to be an improvement on just bashing everything.

I'd only have it on for T3 and protein spray (only wheat here) so it wouldn't be on for all that long. I would say it won't be muddy by then, but we still have standing water in some of the ruts I've made at T0, N1, N2, T1 etc etc.