rough field spraying?

[Palmetto Bug]

I want to set my planter up for no-till. All I would really need to do is add some coulters and trash wheels. What has been stopping me is figuring out how to spray the fields before I plant to kill the weeds and volunteer stuff from last season. When the fields are un-prepped, it's sometimes hard to see my tracks where I sprayed on my last pass. I miss spots and double spray other spots.

The foaming row marker kits are stupid expensive. I tried adding dies to the spayer mix but it's pretty messy and not very visible on a rough field. I've looked into inexpensive, hobby-farmer GPS systems but there are a lot of reviews that suggest they are not very good or reliable. I've also considered building a tool bar with row marker discs but that would make me run over the field an extra time just to scribe lines.

What is the best way to spray an un-disced field and get good, one-pass coverage when you can't see your tracks?

[JABIII]

What is the best way to spray an un-disced field and get good, one-pass coverage when you can't see your tracks?

Drone.

[G3JD, IV]

I use the Tractor GPS app. Works great and easy to set you spray width and it shades what you have sprayed on the map in real time. Very helpful and accurate. I used it for a couple years w phone in hand or in cup holder but the iPad and a mount is optimal. The app isn’t free but well worth it and it has many other uses.

[AnythingFeathers]

Is your drill pull type or 3 pt? And is heavy enough to no till? Coulters will not help much if there is not enough weight. As far as spraying- the Tractor GPS app for phone or iPad works well enough on my UTV sprayer. If you are just trying to do a glyphosate burn down, and you have pull type- mount a spray tank on tongue make spray bar in front or back and spray as you plant ,one pass, you spray where you plant.

[Quackhead22]

Tractor GPS App is great for this!


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[GreenHeadRocker]

Drone for sure

[Whackumstackum]

Count rows.

[Kirk]

I have been using this foam kit for a couple years and it works pretty well: https://a.co/d/06G7Jrzp. I used some extra tubing and spray tip screens to make a second setup for my utv sprayer so I can just switch the tank/pump back and forth. I've been happy with it. My field is 600 yards long and I do sometimes have trouble seeing the foam when I get back to the other end. The tank that it came with was junk and only lasted a little more than a year but I had a two gallon gas can that fit the bracket that I used to replace it.

[Palmetto Bug]

The real farmer that leases a couple of my fields has a drone. He told me he paid $15k for it and then had to buy extra batteries and a couple special genertors to charge the batteries. I won't ask him to srpay it because he's too generous and would probably do it even if he was too busy to mess with such piddling stuff.

My 3 pt. planter is plenty heavy enough to push two coulters into the dirt. I've used my 14 row drill to plant un-prepped fields with deer blend and it did surprisingly well. Those seeds don't need to go deep.

I can't count rows when I'm replanting a deer plot that was drilled.

The Tractor GPS app looks like my solution. I can probably find an old Ipad around here to mount. Does the app work off-line? It sure doesn't have very good ratings in Play Store. The FieldBee app has good ratings but might require a supplemental antennae.

[Quackhead22]

The real farmer that leases a couple of my fields has a drone. He told me he paid $15k for it and then had to buy extra batteries and a couple special genertors to charge the batteries. I won't ask him to srpay it because he's too generous and would probably do it even if he was too busy to mess with such piddling stuff.

My 3 pt. planter is plenty heavy enough to push two coulters into the dirt. I've used my 14 row drill to plant un-prepped fields with deer blend and it did surprisingly well. Those seeds don't need to go deep.

I can't count rows when I'm replanting a deer plot that was drilled.

The Tractor GPS app looks like my solution. I can probably find an old Ipad around here to mount. Does the app work off-line? It sure doesn't have very good ratings in Play Store. The FieldBee app has good ratings but might require a supplemental antennae.

It will work with minimal cell coverage but it does require internet access.


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[Blakeley]

A drone is the way.

I couldn't believe it until I had one come spray the corn ponds after several heavy rains. It took him 2.5hrs to spray 3 fields. It would've taken me about 2 days as soon as the fields got dry enough for a 7410 and a 12 row reddicK that likes to give me headaches.

The automated mapping that drone did changed the way we plant 2 fields.

[ShortMagFan]

I just deal with the imperfection of not spraying some spots and double spraying others. On my to do list before turkey season actually

[Smilee]

GPS get you an Ez Guide 250 paint bar. Simple to use and about $1750-$2000 used. Check eBay.

Get used to spraying. My paint bar antenna got ripped off last fall no -tilling grain. I forgot to fix it anfter I walked the field and Found it. And I’ve been over 100 acres in last 3 days. I’m sure I missed a spot but you can’t do precision farming on a economy budget…

If the shit in the field is to tall to half way manage a spray pattern then I wouldn’t want my sprayer dragging through that shit to rip off tips.

[Sportin' Woodies]

Could have just said circumcision

[2thDoc]

circumcision