Pull Type Sprayers

Last Updated on Monday, 27 October 2008 08:18

The speed of WIDE

with the flexibility of NARROW

All farmers want to spray their field quickly. Time isn't always on your side. Weather conditions can change in an instant. Most wide spray booms can cover a lot of acres in good time if the conditions are near perfect large square, level fields with straight rows. Let's face it, less than perfect field conditions are the norm. A farmer can spend a lot of precious time trying to make it all come out right.

Introducing the Demco 850 and 1250 sprayers

Our new 850 and 1250 sprayers have a unique tank design. Its shape permits this new series to have one of the shortest hitch pin to axlein.lengths in the industry (10040"), enabling excellent maneuverability in the field. The polyethylene tank has a 16" flip-top lid and 2 high volume jet agitators. Its molded-in trough drains spills to the rear of the sprayer. A 100 gallon 2 stage sump provides optimum tank drainage and decreases sloshing. The hydraulic front fold booms feature a nitrogen charged accumulator system combined with leveling linkage and shock absorbers to soften the ride. A live hydraulic control block requires only one set of remote outlets to perform all the boom functions. Independent wing folding, hydraulic height adjusting, wing leveling and outer wing breakaway permits unsurpassed field performance. You can spray an 80/90' width with the boom fully unfolded or fold it to spray at a 60' width.

To best illustrate the tracking ability of Demco's new 50 Series Sprayers, we put it to a simple test. We used the same tractor and the same track but pulled two different sprayers down exactly the same course. Both sprayers' axles were set at 120" widths.

Photo #1 on the left shows a Conquest 1100 sprayer. It's hitch pin to axle distance is 193" (common to most trailer sprayers used in fields today.)

Photo #2 on the right shows the new Demco 1250 sprayer. Its hitch pin to axle distance is 140"

Note the position of the tire relative to the tape line on the pavement in both photos. In this test, the difference of 53" hitch pin to axle length revealed a significant 6" difference in tracking.

All farmers who raise row crops that follow the terrain of the land appreciate close tracking. 6" of "dog tracking" can mean 2 damaged rows for each sprayer pass in the field with contoured rows. An that's one less thing to worry about when spraying with a Demco 50 Series sprayer.

Conclusion:

A shorter hitch pin to axle length dramatically reduces crop damage.