Newly rigged sprayer..McGiver style

[Butch]

John Henry picked up a 15 gallon poly tank sprayer with a 14 GPM demand pump. That was it... so we set out one to make it portable, configured for a spray bar and direct adjustable wand.

So we set out to scrounge and bogart "things" to make this happen. The neighbor gave us a three point hitch/ 2"receiver attachment. We scarfed up his daughter's 2" receiver luggage carrier, and built a spray bar with three nozzles. The three nozzles allow the pump to run at max output without cycling the pressure switch.

To power the sprayer I utilized the 20 amp work lamp auxiliary circuit. The single pole toggle switch and LED indicator light was mounted just behind three point slot in the fender. Now this is where the McGuiver thingy comes into play. The male and female electrical plugs that mate the tractor with the sprayer is a standard flat four automotive trailer plug in. I used the white (- ground) and the brown ( + tail light) leads for the 12 V tractor/sprayer connection. It works beautifully !

The sprayer can be removed from the three point hitch receiver and mounted to any vehicle that has a 2" receiver. The sprayer plugs into the flat four connection on the vehicle and is controlled by turning on the vehicles tail lights...

 

[ipz2222]

Way outside the box!!!!

 

[Tooljunkie]

Brilliant!!
Wish i had thought of that.
Sprayer is waiting to get reworked.now i know what needs to be done.
I mounted my boom on clips used to hang up brooms, if i get close to anything it pops off rather than breaking anything. Works great.

 

[Butch]

The real neat thing is... normally when you change between various pesticides, insecticides, or surfactants (soaps), or just about anything you'd spray with "sprayable' low viscosity.... you'd have to change out spray nozzles to get the spray pattern right. That is because the sprayer bar is usually a fixed height.

On the three point hitch configuration... to compensate for the spray pattern widths based solely on liquid viscosities... all you have to do is raise or lower the hitch to the point the patterns touch and you get full coverage.

The idea is keep it simple.

 

[olthumpa]

Brilliant in its simplicity and functionality!

I too am a firm believer in the KISS adage.

 

[Butch]

Rube Goldberg special...Finished product... take a look!

 

[skeets]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!

 

[kevin47881]

Very well done. That would come in handy spraying fields in preparation of planting food plots.

 

[Butch]

Thanks guys!

This sprayer is easily broken down into its components for reuse and to reassemble the sprayer is about a half hour.

With this component concept you can do a lot more with a lot less...