Workhorse Boomless UTV Sprayer

[Brute 23]

I had bought this sprayer almost two year ago and had not used it yet. We got some good rain yesterday and it was suppose to be real still this morning so I hooked it up and tried it out. We built some new fence last year on this place and it was getting all grown up in weeds and vines and stuff. The pens and little trap were all looking pretty rough too. I think I sprayed 6 tanks of GN XL out of it in all, making a pass down every fence line, around the tanks, in the pens, and down the main road.

I'm real curious to see how good of a job it does. Being mobile and not having to haul a tractor was convenient.

 

[Silver]

I've had great luck using Grazon with my UTV boomless sprayer on fence lines. With woody species it's important to get the nozzles up high because any part of the tree above what is sprayed stays alive.
65 gallons actually goes a fair distance on a fence line.

 

[Brute 23]

I've had great luck using Grazon with my UTV boomless sprayer on fence lines. With woody species it's important to get the nozzles up high because any part of the tree above what is sprayed stays alive.
65 gallons actually goes a fair distance on a fence line.

I didn't get a chance to do much reading on it. I just slapped it together and went. This evening I was reading on the nozzles and how high they can operate. Like my teejet cluster runs almost 4' up and I have great results with it. If I use it again I'm thinking those nozzles need to get up a little higher like you are saying. I have a bunch of receiver hitch pieces I can likely add to get it higher, and I may try to move it back, away from the buggy a little, also.

 

[bird dog]

The wind is your friend. A nice breeze blowing in the direction you want to spray will help carry the liquid further into the brush. I have learned this from spraying cattails. When the wind is right I can stand on the bank of the pond and reach out to get broad coverage over the whole patch by either pointing a nozzle upwards at at a 45 degree or use a hand wand and hold it up over my head and let the wind carry the spray.

I sprayed some last week when we had the north wind for a couple days. Not many chances for a north wind in July

 

[Warren Allison]

I had bought this sprayer almost two year ago and had not used it yet. We got some good rain yesterday and it was suppose to be real still this morning so I hooked it up and tried it out. We built some new fence last year on this place and it was getting all grown up in weeds and vines and stuff. The pens and little trap were all looking pretty rough too. I think I sprayed 6 tanks of GN XL out of it in all, making a pass down every fence line, around the tanks, in the pens, and down the main road.

I'm real curious to see how good of a job it does. Being mobile and not having to haul a tractor was convenient.

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Brute, why the two tanks?

 

[Brute 23]

Brute, why the two tanks?

The small one had remedy and diesel for spot spraying. It had a little left and I was too lazy to take it off.

 

[sstterry]

What size pump does it have on it? That makes a big difference when making it boomless. I swapped mine out from a 2.2 gpm to a 5.5 gpm and it made a huge difference.

 

[Brute 23]

What size pump does it have on it? That makes a big difference when making it boomless. I swapped mine out from a 2.2 gpm to a 5.5 gpm and it made a huge difference.

I think the boomless has the big pump. I know it has to go directly to the battery.

The little tank has the small 2.2gpm and it can run off the 12V plug.

 

[Brute 23]

I should be back up there in 2 weeks. I'll try to get some pics of the coverage.

The one thing I will fault this with is don't let the plants get too high. Twice I hit these plants that make beans, don't know the real name, and I ended up wire fire ants on me. Definitely need to spray sooner next year.

 

[sstterry]

I think the boomless has the big pump. I know it has to go directly to the battery.

The little tank has the small 2.2gpm and it can run off the 12V plug.

Going straight to the battery makes does not make much difference, 12v is 12v. Plug is probably not pulling 12v. I use old tractor batteries in the bed of my side by side and just run directly to those and swap and charge the battery when done or it gets low.

 

[Brute 23]

Going straight to the battery makes does not make much difference, 12v is 12v. Plug is probably not pulling 12v. I use old tractor batteries in the bed of my side by side and just run directly to those and swap and charge the battery when done or it gets low.

That bigger pump will blow the fuse on the 12V socket on my Mule. When it pressures up to #60 it pulls too many amps.

That's little 2.2gpm one must not pull as many amps. Haven't had any trouble with it in the 12V socket.

 

[bird dog]

I do the same as sst. I carry a old deep cycle trolling motor battery and hook up to it. Makes it simple to hook up and unhook. The old battery outlasts me but I am usually just spot spraying and doing 20 gallons or so.

 

[Brute 23]

We made it back a couple days ago to survey the results and I was disappointed. There were tips of stuff starting to brown but that's about it. I was expecting a little more for two weeks.

I will say a lot of it was pretty thick. Really it should have been sprayed a couple months ago. It might be a little more than what those little nozzles can handle. The spots where I had to over lap really showed results vs the rest that just got one pass.

We will see if there is any change in two more weeks. I have a boom for that tank also and will probably try it next to see of it works any better.

 

[greybeard]

The fire ant host plant was probably senna bean.

 

[Brute 23]

The fire ant host plant was probably senna bean.

It was. I didn't know how to spell it though. Great for dove hunting but not fun to ride through.

 

[greybeard]

It was. I didn't know how to spell it though. Great for dove hunting but not fun to ride through.

The ones that grew on my brother's place had nasty thorns. Pretty blooms tho. His wife wouldn't let me spray em.

 

[bird dog]

Maybe you need to change your chemical? Maybe something like Surmount or a Tordon Remedy mix.

 

[Ebenezer]

We made it back a couple days ago to survey the results and I was disappointed. There were tips of stuff starting to brown but that's about it. I was expecting a little more for two weeks.

I will say a lot of it was pretty thick. Really it should have been sprayed a couple months ago. It might be a little more than what those little nozzles can handle. The spots where I had to over lap really showed results vs the rest that just got one pass.

We will see if there is any change in two more weeks. I have a boom for that tank also and will probably try it next to see of it works any better.

Need more gallons per acre, at least, if the weeds half way die and the right herbicides were used. Or better herbicides.

 

[Brute 23]

Need more gallons per acre, at least, if the weeds half way die and the right herbicides were used. Or better herbicides.

I spray quite a bit of country with grazon next and have great results but it's with big sprayers. This was my first try with the utv sprayer.

 

[Ebenezer]

I spray quite a bit of cohntey with grazon next and have great results but it's with big sprayers. This was my first try with the utv sprayer.

I've done what you were doing. We get used to a tractor sprayer putting out adequate gallons. Then the small ones sort of lull us into thinking that they have the same ability.