Decided to beef up my 300 gallon Wylie cluster sprayer up a little. Replaced my cluster sprayer with a 15 foot boom that has cluster nozzles that spray outward at each end of the boom. Am not sure yet exactly how wide of a strip it will cover yet. And plan on plumbing the two cluster nozzles in so that I can turn them off if I don’t need them depending on what I am spraying at the time. The nozzles on the boom point straight down and are about 3 foot off the ground. So I think I will get a better coverage spraying directly down into the grass for example army worms. Will be spraying Bermuda grass fields most of the time anyway.
Am replacing the 7560c 8 roller hypro PTO pump with a Silver series 7560 XL 8 roller hypro PTO pump. It’s a little bit bigger pump compared to the 7560c as far as its intake and discharge lines go. The c pump lines are 1 inch in diameter where the XL has 1 1/2 inch. Where the c pump has a 200 hour pump life the XL is a thousand hours and the housing material is made of something I guess similar to stainless steel that is supposed to hold up better from herbicide chemicals.
But because this new pump is bigger I am going to have to replace the inlet and outlet lines and fittings starting at the bottom of the tank to the in line filter and from the filter to the inlet of the pump with 11/2 inch hose and fittings and bigger in line filter housing. The discharge line from the pump to the boom
Is also 1 1/2 inch line that reduces to 1 inch line between nozzles.
Also had to add a Z Pump mount to mount the new pump on. Even though it is a PTO pump it is a litter heavier than the C pump that was designed to just be direct coupled to the tractor PTO and a chain from the pump to the toe bar to keep it from spinning. I never did like that set up from the first time I started using it.
But now that the new pump is mounted permanently onto the trailer. I have a PTO shaft to hook the pump up to the tractor PTO. Which I like a lot better.
Now granted my tank is only 300 gallons but that is more than enough chemical to mix up at a time for my little operation. I hate ending up having a 100 gallons or more chemical to find a place for when i am close to being done spraying.
And I also like not having to pull a 4 to 800 gallon tank around just to spray fence rows. Not to mention I can pull a 300 gallon sprayer around with a smaller tractor 65 or even 50 hp is plenty big enough to pull a 300 gallon sprayer. Where 4 to 800 gallon sprayer you would probably want to go 75 hp or bigger. That’s just my opinion though. To each his own.
Am replacing the 7560c 8 roller hypro PTO pump with a Silver series 7560 XL 8 roller hypro PTO pump. It’s a little bit bigger pump compared to the 7560c as far as its intake and discharge lines go. The c pump lines are 1 inch in diameter where the XL has 1 1/2 inch. Where the c pump has a 200 hour pump life the XL is a thousand hours and the housing material is made of something I guess similar to stainless steel that is supposed to hold up better from herbicide chemicals.
But because this new pump is bigger I am going to have to replace the inlet and outlet lines and fittings starting at the bottom of the tank to the in line filter and from the filter to the inlet of the pump with 11/2 inch hose and fittings and bigger in line filter housing. The discharge line from the pump to the boom
Is also 1 1/2 inch line that reduces to 1 inch line between nozzles.
Also had to add a Z Pump mount to mount the new pump on. Even though it is a PTO pump it is a litter heavier than the C pump that was designed to just be direct coupled to the tractor PTO and a chain from the pump to the toe bar to keep it from spinning. I never did like that set up from the first time I started using it.
But now that the new pump is mounted permanently onto the trailer. I have a PTO shaft to hook the pump up to the tractor PTO. Which I like a lot better.
Now granted my tank is only 300 gallons but that is more than enough chemical to mix up at a time for my little operation. I hate ending up having a 100 gallons or more chemical to find a place for when i am close to being done spraying.
And I also like not having to pull a 4 to 800 gallon tank around just to spray fence rows. Not to mention I can pull a 300 gallon sprayer around with a smaller tractor 65 or even 50 hp is plenty big enough to pull a 300 gallon sprayer. Where 4 to 800 gallon sprayer you would probably want to go 75 hp or bigger. That’s just my opinion though. To each his own.
