quad sprayer setup?

[Chae1]

I'm wanting to make something up to mount off quad to spray edges of fields. Does anyone have any pictures of there setup and any advice or ideas?

At moment I just hold lance! But arm gets sore pretty quick.

 

[Jerry]

@SimpersTradeCounter

Maybe something for your input?

 

[The_Swede]

We have a spaldings boom on our little quad sprayer, cheap and cheerful, standard choice of nozzles.

Agree too much time on the hand lance is hard work!

 

[bravheart]

Watch out for the 2m. round hedges now.


Tuck handlance into front carrier, saves on the arm muscles

 

[quattro]

I'm wanting to make something up to mount off quad to spray edges of fields. Does anyone have any pictures of there setup and any advice or ideas?

At moment I just hold lance! But arm gets sore pretty quick.

You can get proper hedge row nozzles what you can angle which fastens on rack
I got a 11litre pump and put 4 nozzles all connected with individual taps so you can have one nozzle on or all of them for bigger patches

 

[bobajob]

Yeah what quattro says, google boomless atv sprayers. Great bits of kit, a lot quicker and easier, we never use the handlance now

 

[SimpersTradeCounter]

PM'd

 

[scholland]

The boomless nozzles are great for spraying up to boundaries.

 

[Oat]

The main issue I found was getting sufficient power to the pump. I bought a small ATV boom sprayer and the pump included a long wire with a switch built in. Initially I wired into a socket I had fitted on the back rack (and controlled by a switch on the handlebars). It would work for a while, but then would lose pressure. Despite buying a new pump, I eventually worked out that it was the long wire with the built in switch which was the problem, it was losing too much power, so the pump was working fully. In the end I cut out all the excess wire and it now works fine.

 

[Brisel]

I run a Enduramaxx 60 litre sprayer & a Spaldings budget boom kit with 3 nozzles. Like you I got tired of holding the hand lance! The boom kit was about £150 IIRC. I normally only use 2 nozzles at a good height unless the wind gets up & I run 3 at a lower level. Forget calibrating it - my Enduramaxx regulator is terrible so I just put 2 litres of glyphosate in 60 litres of water & drive at around 6 kph at whatever pressure the regulator will put out. Slow down for couch grass patches or big weeds. That's plenty fast enough if you plough...

If you want to be really tight, make a braket up for the lance behind the quad & get a big croc clip from a set of jump leads to hold the trigger down.

 

[SimpersTradeCounter]

If you want to be able to control the output of your quad bike sprayer properly ,gives me a call.

 

[Grassman]

@SimpersTradeCounter
do you sell the hand lance with the adjustable nozzle. I am ready for a new one.

I had a 2 nozzle boom mounted on the quad for spraying electric fence line but don't use it now. I found it a bit restrictive to use.
An adjustable nozzle does the job better.

 

[Feldspar]

I run a Enduramaxx 60 litre sprayer & a Spaldings budget boom kit with 3 nozzles. Like you I got tired of holding the hand lance! The boom kit was about £150 IIRC. I normally only use 2 nozzles at a good height unless the wind gets up & I run 3 at a lower level. Forget calibrating it - my Enduramaxx regulator is terrible so I just put 2 litres of glyphosate in 60 litres of water & drive at around 6 kph at whatever pressure the regulator will put out. Slow down for couch grass patches or big weeds. That's plenty fast enough if you plough...

If you want to be really tight, make a braket up for the lance behind the quad & get a big croc clip from a set of jump leads to hold the trigger down.

How windy can it get using the three nozzles?

I have two nozzles behind the quad for spraying footpaths - they're quite high and it needs to be really still to work. As a result we never seem to have much time to do field edges because on those days there's nearly always normal spraying to do.

 

[SimpersTradeCounter]

@SimpersTradeCounter
do you sell the hand lance with the adjustable nozzle. I am ready for a new one.

I had a 2 nozzle boom mounted on the quad for spraying electric fence line but don't use it now. I found it a bit restrictive to use.
An adjustable nozzle does the job better.

Yes we do !

 

[Brisel]

How windy can it get using the three nozzles?

I have two nozzles behind the quad for spraying footpaths - they're quite high and it needs to be really still to work. As a result we never seem to have much time to do field edges because on those days there's nearly always normal spraying to do.

Not very. I'm using the standard ones that came with the boom which are supposed to be low drift but I might change to something really coarse. Nothing worse than the old shark's teeth in the crop or the cross compliance strip! Only doing mine now because we were busy before, doing fertiliser etc.

 

[woody 1]

Do you @SimpersTradeCounter have any links to quad bike sprayers on your website with prices please, I can't find them.

 

[RG Farm]

I run a Enduramaxx 60 litre sprayer & a Spaldings budget boom kit with 3 nozzles. Like you I got tired of holding the hand lance! The boom kit was about £150 IIRC. I normally only use 2 nozzles at a good height unless the wind gets up & I run 3 at a lower level. Forget calibrating it - my Enduramaxx regulator is terrible so I just put 2 litres of glyphosate in 60 litres of water & drive at around 6 kph at whatever pressure the regulator will put out. Slow down for couch grass patches or big weeds. That's plenty fast enough if you plough...

If you want to be really tight, make a braket up for the lance behind the quad & get a big croc clip from a set of jump leads to hold the trigger down.

We have a similar set up but as the quad isn't a big one you have to use tractor weights in front basket to level it up to maintain a standard boom height.