- Location
- Linconshire
Setting in from the headlands with 24m sprayer and switching on the booms the flow rate on the Rds takes 15 yards to come up to target rate of 150 Litres a hectare flow rate. I've put up with this since the first pre em and as a result the blackgrass is showing for the first ten yards inside the headlands.
Turning on the booms I need the 150 L flow rate to come up instantly. Ramsey valve is tightened up ok and new diaphragms fitted a month ago. Filling the sprayer with suction hose from tank outlet at ground level is painfully slow compared to last season so wondered if air is getting in on suction side of pump but short of tightening up the plastic nut on the hose end on top of pump and wrecking the thread is there anything else to look at.
Turning on the booms I need the 150 L flow rate to come up instantly. Ramsey valve is tightened up ok and new diaphragms fitted a month ago. Filling the sprayer with suction hose from tank outlet at ground level is painfully slow compared to last season so wondered if air is getting in on suction side of pump but short of tightening up the plastic nut on the hose end on top of pump and wrecking the thread is there anything else to look at.