Help me with sprayer tip spacing

Justin SE IOWA · Feb 24, 2012

I am building a sprayer to pull behind my tractor to spray 2-4-D on my hayfield. I have a 8 roller pump I will be using. I have all the parts and pieces rounded up to build it, I just need to know how far apart to place the tips. The tips I am using I bought an Orschelns and the package says 20 inches. So that is what I was gonna build it at unless you guys recomend different. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

gregger · Feb 24, 2012

you better buy a good book on spraying --- T-jet has a good one -- there's more to setting up a sprayer than nozzle space -- there ground speed, flow rate per min. gals. per min. then the size of the nozzle -- there are diff. nozzles for diff. spray ---

flying belgian · Feb 24, 2012

I got mine set at 20" You then adjust everything else accordingly.

fixerupper · Feb 24, 2012

20" is pretty much the norm. If I remember right, the spray charts for nozzles list rates for either 20" or 30" spacings. For hayfield or general broadcast spraying 20" is the most common. You won't have to run as much pressure to get your gallons per acre if you run 20" spacings compared to 30" if you use the same size nozzles. Like Gregger said, you need a book, but you probably already know that. There are so many tip choices out there today it'll make your head spin but it sounds like you've already been there. Jim

Justin SE IOWA · Feb 24, 2012

Yean on the package of tips it has a chart for gpm and ground speed with the different tip size. Im new to this but I can learn and figure it out!

LarryT · Feb 24, 2012

20" apart and 20" off the ground or target. Make sure your screens are smaller than the nozzle. Use an inlet filter on your pump and a screen on each nozzle.

Look in your catalog and adjust your nozzle sized for the flow and pressure you want. Fimco is the manufacturer I use. Great products and they stand behind the warranty. Good folks there. Great help and will help you figure what you need if you ask. LarryT

DeltaRed · Feb 24, 2012

Here's what I do:8002 nozzles,30 psi at 5 mph on 20"
spacing.that is approx 10 gpa.I use a Farmall
SuperH-3rd gear,wide open is 5 mph.As others have
said,buy a book!

caterpillar guy · Feb 25, 2012

Your in the right area depends on what your spraying. Tee-Jet and Delavan both have websites you can go to for more information.
You might have to raise the booms up more if spraying taller crops. leaf hoppers in Alfalfa or weeds RR beans the beans will be so tall the booms will hit the plants.

rick2 in ohio · Feb 25, 2012

will the 24d just kill the undesirables and not the
grass.i have a hayfield on a hillside with alot of
small sticker type bushes in it i dont think its
multiflora rose but they could be.like to get rid of
them somehow without plowing or burn ing down the
hole field.
RICK

Anonymous-0 · Feb 25, 2012

I built a 3pt spayer a few years back. I just went out to the local farm supple store with a tape measure and reversed engineered from theirs. Couldn't see paying for something when I had everything but the nozzle just laying around. I think mine are more like 24".

carlntexas · Feb 25, 2012

Can you still buy 24D.

paul · Feb 25, 2012

Yes, 24D kills broadleaves, doesn't hurt grasses - if you follow the label. Banel is another good one, _if_ you spray when it is cool so you don't hurt other crops a mile away - again follow the labels.

20 inch spacing is standard.

--->Paul

Mike Aylward · Feb 25, 2012

Justin, if 2,4-D is all you will ever spray you won't want to put apply many gallons per acre. You will want to run a higher pressure to "mist" the 2,4-D to get an even application. You almost want to turn it into a fog to be sure the small weeds under the canopy get some herbicide on them. Years ago when it was used moreso on corn it was very common to run 5 gallons per acre or LESS (and this was applied with drops). Much more than that and you don't get the small weeds covered if there is any canopy at all. However, there is a fine line between "fog" for effectiveness and "drift" to kill your neighbor's (or your) rose bushes. Mike

donjr · Feb 25, 2012

Justin-

20" is fine. Tyr not to use that stuff if the temp is over about 70 degrees, though, or breezy. If you use a 'sticker', you'll get good coverage and not have to use a fine mist. 2,4-d and Banvel will both volatize after the temp hits over 70, and can and will damage nearby broadleaf plants. Wine grapes are especially susceptible and have been damaged by use of those products almost 1/2 mile distant. Just be careful.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 25, 2012

your better off with a hamilton nozzle sprays 30 ft with one nozzle we junked out boom sprays years ago---the nozzle costs 30.00

OH - 961 · Feb 25, 2012

(quoted from post at 00:07:51 02/25/12) I am building a sprayer to pull behind my tractor to spray 2-4-D on my hayfield. I have a 8 roller pump I will be using. I have all the parts and pieces rounded up to build it, I just need to know how far apart to place the tips. The tips I am using I bought an Orschelns and the package says 20 inches. So that is what I was gonna build it at unless you guys recomend different. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

I(f you have Canadian Thistle, 2-4D won.t do much to it. It may knock it down temporarily, but since it is a perennial that comes up from the root, as well as producing copious amounts of seed after it flowers, it can be very hard to control.
A bit of research told me that a herbicide containing "clopyralid" was the best available herbicide for thistle and many other hard to control plants.
Dow makes several products that contain clopyralid, Lontrel being one of them. Here is a link to the info and you can download the data sheets and their "Woody Weed Control Guide" which is very helpful.

dowagro.com/au/prod/lontrel.htm

Myron

P.S. I didn't know the large font was THAT large!

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