- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Where to buy Fertiliser spread testing kit
- Thread starter Chap
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Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
Not considered syringes before. Why the holes drilled?
I use syringes. Handy as they have graduations up the side.
Test tubes and all that stuff easy to make up off amazon. It’s just the trays I would like get right. I did see some for sale on a spreader test website at crazy money. I mean, trays at £30 plus quid each. Probably cost £2 to make. Just another leach hanging on the farmers back. Some good ideas on this thread but why is something like a spreader testing kit so expensive? Sums up the whole supply chain in farming really. Buy everything retail and sell everything wholesale
davidroberts30
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- pembrokeshire
Basically you need something inside a big tray to stop granules bouncing out
Google plastic egg trays
NeepClatter
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I was recent,y quoted £300 for the purple mats for doing the spread test for the Amazone Easycheck app that you run on your phone , Think I’ll just cut up some similar colored carpet underlay for the test.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Notice they have the mats running in the direction of travel as well as across the run.
I thought that would need to be the case to average out differences. No good just putting one row across width.
I have used hessian potato seed sacks in the past. Prills don’t bounce off and they roll up for storage.
Still wondering if setting by the database then checking by eye is as good as trays when you consider the measurement errors invoked.
Amazone phone app sounds good. Presume camera counts prills / granules? Good idea. Saves clatting about with funnels and tubes.
Blowing a gale so won’t be doing much for a bit.
I thought that would need to be the case to average out differences. No good just putting one row across width.
I have used hessian potato seed sacks in the past. Prills don’t bounce off and they roll up for storage.
Still wondering if setting by the database then checking by eye is as good as trays when you consider the measurement errors invoked.
Amazone phone app sounds good. Presume camera counts prills / granules? Good idea. Saves clatting about with funnels and tubes.
Blowing a gale so won’t be doing much for a bit.
thanks for that
If you've used 2 x 600kg bags in the first 100 yards, then wind it down a bit.
^^^^^ Just kidding BTW 
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
- Location
- Lincolnshire
That’s what my uncle used to do in the days of the vicon wagtail. One spout end piece for prills, one for granules, away you go.
Been using a twin disc for 20 years now. Rate is easy enough. Spread pattern a bit more tricky with lots of different products. Fitting new vanes this morning. I have also download the app I just found by looking on this thread. Just need the mats of some sort. Don’t think I’ll be far wrong with the database settings and new vanes though. PTO speed must surely be the only other factor involved.
Been using a twin disc for 20 years now. Rate is easy enough. Spread pattern a bit more tricky with lots of different products. Fitting new vanes this morning. I have also download the app I just found by looking on this thread.
Just need the mats of some sort. Don’t think I’ll be far wrong with the database settings and new vanes though. PTO speed must surely be the only other factor involved.2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
for pto speed buy a digital tachometer. you would be surprised how far out the figures could be.That’s what my uncle used to do in the days of the vicon wagtail. One spout end piece for prills, one for granules, away you go.
Been using a twin disc for 20 years now. Rate is easy enough. Spread pattern a bit more tricky with lots of different products. Fitting new vanes this morning. I have also download the app I just found by looking on this thread.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I found I need 24 egg trays (12” x 12”) to collect enough prills to be measurable in 12ml test tubes (out of my soil test kit).
I put 4 rows off trays across 12m, 6 trays across the 12 m width, so one every 2m starting just outside the tractor wheel, finishing half way to next tramline.
6 test tubes. Each holds the contents of the 4 trays from every 2m interval.
Tacho metered the PTO. A bit slower than the tractor Rev counter would suggest.
these any good £1 each
bulb trays 100.s available
better than the £1270 odd quid from the slightly crap setters buy a box of syringes for the pots and 20 mins drilling a few holes in a lump of wood
happy days
bulb trays 100.s available
better than the £1270 odd quid from the slightly crap setters buy a box of syringes for the pots and 20 mins drilling a few holes in a lump of wood
happy days
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
They look good. What size are they?
Egg trays are useless as I’ve found this morning. Only catch about 1/4 of what falls. The rest bounces off.
60x40 cm how many thousand do you want
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Do they have holes in the bottom? Are they easy to tip the product out a corner into a funnel?
no holes as used for hydroponic tulip growing n glass houses
so need to be watter tight
so need to be watter tight
no good wazz
too hard to get all granulals out
have found some 70 deep trays
need to find some plastic strip for inserts
how do others tray test
use 3 trams
one tray in middle
then 4 either way ,3 m apart
up back down and up . to get even pattern
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
I use seed pots. Can carefully get granules out by removing the inserts. Then into a jug and into the tubes
I have 10 trays out one side. 0m to 18m every 2 metres.
Add 1 and 10 together, 2 and 9, etc etc end with five test tubes. Do one side at once.
No expert at all but best system I've managed