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Trailed vs Self Propelled Sprayer
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<blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 2328978" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>I was thinking today would have been a good day to test the effect of boom height on drift. It was one of those days through the middle of the day where we would normally not spray (BBC was giving 13mph as a figures). As it was we had just some big fields with a growing list of things to do so we went. Tomorrow was looking like another similar day. The difference between being able to spray in 12-13mph winds (as per BBC weather) and not could therefore mean an extra two days of spraying which is not to be sniffed at.</p><p></p><p>This period has been interesting because it has highlighted the various different pressures / real world problems that are easy to forget when pontificating in the theoretical realm in mid-January. We've been constrained by last weekend's rain in getting pre-ems on (Spray Ranger has done well here, and still wish we had more light land); the wind has been in the wrong direction for some fields given houses which has slowed things up (maybe need to get better at spraying at night!); the Bateman's boom has broken due to spraying off cultivated land (ditch plough and maybe get a Horsch level of boom suspension); we keep trying to reduce our 'to be drilled this spring' figure which diverts manpower; one person with a bad chest infection; Easter (Why did Jesus have to choose that date to die, when he should have realised we would need people around to apply Nirvana?); and frosts keep appearing which hampers the Atlantis. All in all, even with two sprayers, it's remarkable how you can not get everything done as you would ideally like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feldspar, post: 2328978, member: 386"] I was thinking today would have been a good day to test the effect of boom height on drift. It was one of those days through the middle of the day where we would normally not spray (BBC was giving 13mph as a figures). As it was we had just some big fields with a growing list of things to do so we went. Tomorrow was looking like another similar day. The difference between being able to spray in 12-13mph winds (as per BBC weather) and not could therefore mean an extra two days of spraying which is not to be sniffed at. This period has been interesting because it has highlighted the various different pressures / real world problems that are easy to forget when pontificating in the theoretical realm in mid-January. We've been constrained by last weekend's rain in getting pre-ems on (Spray Ranger has done well here, and still wish we had more light land); the wind has been in the wrong direction for some fields given houses which has slowed things up (maybe need to get better at spraying at night!); the Bateman's boom has broken due to spraying off cultivated land (ditch plough and maybe get a Horsch level of boom suspension); we keep trying to reduce our 'to be drilled this spring' figure which diverts manpower; one person with a bad chest infection; Easter (Why did Jesus have to choose that date to die, when he should have realised we would need people around to apply Nirvana?); and frosts keep appearing which hampers the Atlantis. All in all, even with two sprayers, it's remarkable how you can not get everything done as you would ideally like. [/QUOTE]
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