Liquid Fertilizer Set-Up For Six-Row

Liquid Fertilizer Set-Up For Six-Row CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 25-1-40 "My dad and I built a liquid fertilizer set-up for our 6-row cultivator that we think many FARM SHOW readers might be interested in," says Matt Debisschop, Middlebury, Vt. "We came up with the idea because we needed to sidedress our nitrogen and didn't want to buy a new dry fertilizer setup. "Our planter came equipped for both liquid and dry fertilizer. We decided to keep the dry fertilizer on the planter and put the liquid on the cultivator. "We took the liquid fertilizer tanks off the planter and put them on the cultivator. We mounted the tanks onto the cultivator with brackets made out of 4 by 8 metal tubing that weld to the frame of the cultivator. "The fertilizer is put on by a John Blue squeeze pump run by a hydraulic motor driven through the hydraulics from the tractor. We were going to make it ground driven but were afraid that if the drive wheel dropped into a hole it would stop turning or that it would put down too much or too little fertilizer. We mounted a flow regulator onto the tractor so that the pump will run faster and put out more fertilizer or run slower and put out less fertilizer. This lets us regulate the amount of fertilizer and vary the rate from field to field. "The tanks have a quick-fill setup. We have a 1,500-gal. tank on a gooseneck trailer that we can move around behind a truck or tractor. A gas engine pumps fertilizer from the big tank to all three tanks at one time. It takes just 2 min. to fill all the tanks at once." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Matt DeBisschop, RD 2, Box 3820, Middlebury, VT 05753 (ph 802 545-2568).

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