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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1232014" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>The short boom Big Foot is using will work fine for you acreage, some will a cluster nozzle (I have both on my home built sprayer, with a valve to alternate which one I use) You can go with the 'tote' tank 270-300gal and that will be fine. 100 gallon of mixed solution will not last very long. You will have to calculate how much your sprayer is putting out in coverage, and it depends on pressure, flow in gallons/hour or gallons/minute. Dow recommends 2-4 pints of actual 2,4d per acre (mixed with water of course). So what you will need to do, (with your pump and nozzle) is figure out how many gallons of water it takes you to cover one acre, then mix your herbicide accordingly to get the middle # of 3 pts/acre herbicide applied. Just roughly guessing, I'd say you will be spraying 20-30 gals of mix/acre. That's 800-1200 gals to spray 40 acres. Lots of trips back to the water hose to refill a 100 gal tank, but not near as many with a 300 gal tank. </p><p></p><p>You will want to mount it on a small trailer. Water weighs 8.3 pounds/gal, so 100 gallons of just the water weighs 830lbs, not counting the weight of the tank. A full 250-300 gallon tank weighs over 2000lb and 300 gal weighs about 2500lbs. Unless you have a big tractor, don't want any of those weights hanging off your 3pt in rough terrain or on the side of a hill with the 3pt up pretty high to get clearance for your nozzles to work good. 3pt sprayers also put a lot of spray on the tractor driver if there is any breeze at all unless it's a cab tractor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1232014, member: 18945"] The short boom Big Foot is using will work fine for you acreage, some will a cluster nozzle (I have both on my home built sprayer, with a valve to alternate which one I use) You can go with the 'tote' tank 270-300gal and that will be fine. 100 gallon of mixed solution will not last very long. You will have to calculate how much your sprayer is putting out in coverage, and it depends on pressure, flow in gallons/hour or gallons/minute. Dow recommends 2-4 pints of actual 2,4d per acre (mixed with water of course). So what you will need to do, (with your pump and nozzle) is figure out how many gallons of water it takes you to cover one acre, then mix your herbicide accordingly to get the middle # of 3 pts/acre herbicide applied. Just roughly guessing, I'd say you will be spraying 20-30 gals of mix/acre. That's 800-1200 gals to spray 40 acres. Lots of trips back to the water hose to refill a 100 gal tank, but not near as many with a 300 gal tank. You will want to mount it on a small trailer. Water weighs 8.3 pounds/gal, so 100 gallons of just the water weighs 830lbs, not counting the weight of the tank. A full 250-300 gallon tank weighs over 2000lb and 300 gal weighs about 2500lbs. Unless you have a big tractor, don't want any of those weights hanging off your 3pt in rough terrain or on the side of a hill with the 3pt up pretty high to get clearance for your nozzles to work good. 3pt sprayers also put a lot of spray on the tractor driver if there is any breeze at all unless it's a cab tractor. [/QUOTE]
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