Drop Deck Trailer Makes Cheap Fertilizer Tank Hauler

Drop Deck Trailer Makes Cheap Fertilizer Tank Hauler FERTILIZER APPLICATION Fertilizer Application (58f) 26-5-25 Old drop deck trailers that were used a few years ago to move wide equipment can also be used to haul large chemical and water tanks, says Doug Martin, Mt. Pulaski, Ill., who uses an old Deere drop deck trailer to carry a pair of 1,200-gal. poly tanks. Martin bought the trailer used from a local dealer for $750 and then painted it. After setting the tanks on the trailer, he mounted a hydraulic motor and pump on the deck and plumbed into the tanks. At the field he locks the trailer's two axles together and then pulls the trailer off them and onto the ground. "We use it every spring when we side dress 28 percent liquid nitrogen after planting. Jerry Tschantz, an employee, suggested the idea," says Martin. "At the field, we use a pump on the trailer to pull 28 percent fertilizer from a semi tanker into the tanks. We had been using an upright 5,000-gal. tank mounted on a conventional trailer, and we needed more capacity. Instead of buying another similar trailer, we decided to buy the drop deck trailer. Using the semi tanker to fill the tanks eliminates the need to have someone hauling 28 percent back and forth from our local chemical supplier to the field all the time. "Used drop deck trailers are getting easier to find because much of the equipment that's being used today is too big to fit on these trailers." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Martin, 1947 169th St., Mt. Pulaski, Ill. 62548 (ph 217 674-3439).

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