A thing probably alot of small farmers are familiar with or maybe I'm not privy to something but whenever I use sprays that are granular it's the same process every time..... fill tank, add chemicals.... go walk around for 20 mins while it mixes then come back and go spray. Repeat for all 10 tanks or more. Can't run the engine up to 2100 RPM to mix faster at 540 because that would just annoy all my customers in my nearby shop for like.... maybe 10 mins? Plus more fuel that gets more expensive every day.
Thought about buying a large circulating pump normally on hot water furnaces and put that in line so it mixes but the engine isn't running.... just plug it in. Would work but isn't any faster...
Thought about trying to put in a motor and pully on the sprayer frame with a pully and belt. When spraying the motor would freewheel which dosen't matter and when the tractor was off and it's mixing the driven side of the pto mechanism would free spin as well as the pump.
3rd was take an old sprayer, run it's pump with a motor and while I'm spraying it can sit there mixing and then when I get back I can just pump from one to the other. This idea is the fasest to keep spraying but it's not very neat....
So the first idea of just an electric circulator is the easiest but it wouldn't mix any faster..... just saves the idling fuel
Second idea isn't terrible as theres lots of room on the frame for a motor but although the motor freewheeling is nothing I'm not sure a PTO driven side spinning at 540 when the engines off is a bad idea or not. I think it's just an open clutch but still... it locks when off and the engines running so theres somthing more in there
Third has a sprayer pump mixing at 540 for plenty of time and the only delay is the transfer which may be nothing time wise but it's another thing in the way which is not great.
I guess option 4 is what I always have done.... get it mixing and go do something else for a bit and come back.
This runs on an old JD 2355, works great but strawberries are alot of spraying and theres alot of granular stuff that dissolves slow.
Thought about buying a large circulating pump normally on hot water furnaces and put that in line so it mixes but the engine isn't running.... just plug it in. Would work but isn't any faster...
Thought about trying to put in a motor and pully on the sprayer frame with a pully and belt. When spraying the motor would freewheel which dosen't matter and when the tractor was off and it's mixing the driven side of the pto mechanism would free spin as well as the pump.
3rd was take an old sprayer, run it's pump with a motor and while I'm spraying it can sit there mixing and then when I get back I can just pump from one to the other. This idea is the fasest to keep spraying but it's not very neat....
So the first idea of just an electric circulator is the easiest but it wouldn't mix any faster..... just saves the idling fuel
Second idea isn't terrible as theres lots of room on the frame for a motor but although the motor freewheeling is nothing I'm not sure a PTO driven side spinning at 540 when the engines off is a bad idea or not. I think it's just an open clutch but still... it locks when off and the engines running so theres somthing more in there
Third has a sprayer pump mixing at 540 for plenty of time and the only delay is the transfer which may be nothing time wise but it's another thing in the way which is not great.
I guess option 4 is what I always have done.... get it mixing and go do something else for a bit and come back.
This runs on an old JD 2355, works great but strawberries are alot of spraying and theres alot of granular stuff that dissolves slow.
