Pickup-Mounted 60-Ft Sprayer

Pickup-Mounted 60-Ft Sprayer PICKUPS Accessories 18-3-7 Kerry Brillon used to cover about 35 acres an hour with his 60-ft. pull-type sprayer. Nowadays the Scobey, Mont., farmer still uses a 60-ft. sprayer but he's covering 80 acres an hour - including filling up and mixing chemicals - because he mounted the sprayer on his pickup. The boom's made out of 1-in. sq. tubing and is mounted just behind the cab, and there's a 200-gal. tank in the back of the truck. A short section of boom mounts behind the truck bed. "We've been using the sprayer for 7 years now with no problems at all. It features quick-release boom sections at the ends that protect it if any obstruction is hit. And the booms fold back in a minute or less for road travel. The sprayer's fitted with an electric clutch activated pump that you can control from inside the truck," says Brillon, who built the sprayer himself, saving more than $3,000 over what he would have paid for a similar commercial-built rig. There's no marker on the drill. Since Brillon uses a 30-ft. grain drill he just sprays two of the drill passes at a time. Brillon says cost of parts to build the sprayer would be about $1,250, including the pump and tank. He's willing to make a video and computer designed blueprints available if there's enough interest. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kerry Brillon, P.O. Box 93,113 Main St., Scobey, Mont. 59263 (ph 306 476-2727).

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