[Mitchauer46]

I am part of a company that sells fertilizer broadcasters for tow between air seeder carts and we would like to sell our patents. Anyone have any suggestions? We have US and canadian patents.

 

[Mitchauer46]

You tube search: A & E dry material applicator.

 

[chompy]

Looks like a well thought out machine Mitch, I really like the hydraulic fold setup - nice job!

I have no ideas on selling patents, but wonder why you made it only 70 ft? With that fold behind design I'd have thought you could have gone twice that width. I'd have thought that the majority of the market share over there would be for a wider machine? Couldn't quite see on the video, but does it have breakaway sections on the ends?

Added a link to the video for you.

 

[Mitchauer46]

No breakaway. The footage is 70' because we think if you get any longer, air loss will occur and your cart fan can't push the product to the end of the booms. 9 - 10 mph so 300 to 400 acres a day pretty easy.

 

[wheely]

70' at 10mph 1000ac a day won't be that hard to do. Doing it now at 6mph but that's 24hrs

 

[alfred123]

have you tested it in no till fields when we stopped harrowing we had to get rid of our wheel boom sprayer as it was more welding practise than we wanted.

 

[Mitchauer46]

Yes. We've been no till for 35 years. Now even in stripper header straw for 5years. Works simple ms effective.

 

[brazil07]

I hate to stymie good inventive ideas(I never have them) and maybe it because am watching it snow so have nothing else to do. However, in my small area of western cda would think patent on this would best be filed under WTF do I need this.com. Is it just me, but for amount of broadcasting I have would never consider unhooking aircart from airseeder to hook up this contraption - just use airseeder for broadcasting? Granted do not get as nice a spread as this unit, but for N or S that you broadcasting does this really matter? I go on same gps trail as what land was seeded so it not rough/hard on tool at up to 9ishMPH(can do way more acres/day than I need at even speeds less than this). Can even smooth out the odd seeding/trash pile by using this as well. As far as having a separate air cart that was dedicated to this really do not like another piece of equipment/hoses/tires to maintain. Actually broadcasting fertilizer with airseeder much more enjoyable than seeding with it and as try to do this ahead of imminent rain really see results.

 

[Mitchauer46]

Thanks for the input.

 

[Jay0001]

Why not buy a decent broadcast spreader, some of them go over 100ft. Cheaper than an air cart plus you neat looking machine. The newer ones from Europe are very very accurate lots of them starting to show up around here. spreaders can go 15-18 mph, 1000 ac a day is no problem assuming you have a good tender truck keeping fill times to a minimum.

As for the patents my guess will be you have to approach a company that specializes in application equipment and see what your patent is worth. I suspect not a lot, nothing really special here unless you have a real novel deflector or something. (sorry) Lots of homemade applicators like it around,

spreading fertilizer is generally weather dependent and need to be able to get a lot of ac done in a day.

 

[Mitchauer46]

Thanks for the input. I know we won't get much of anything out the idea. Just throwing the idea out there. We did fairly well selling them and that helped out during the dry years.

 

[SWFarmService]

Cheap way to retrofit a cart that still has decent capacity that dealer thinks is worthless, would be great for spot applying chloride to side hills of seeding cover crops, I have often though about retrofiting an old pull type boom sprayer to do this, I put a Phillips rotary harrow behind a 2400 concord cart and still like the idea of this set up if you would have a rainy spell coming soon after cover cropping

So all in all thumbs up for beating me to making this idea a reality

 

[CASEIHFARMER]

Are you still producing these or have any for sale? I think this would work excellent to broadcast canola seed in wet years.

 

[wetfarmer]

Always wanted to build something like that. Where do you get your deflectors or do you make them? I always wondered about a free floating boom on the back of one of those 3 point hitch carrying carts of yesteryear designed to hang a corn planter. I have a little amazone and have discovered that 6 b train loads is actually 100 loads in my m. A little too much filling. Something like this way better in the wind but more tracking than I do with the amazone on a track machine.

 

[Mitchauer46]

We don't make them anymore but there is one for sale in Glasgow MT at Zerbe bros. I actually have two and we broadcast fert in the winter, spread alfalfa then roll it in, and also do grass seed with it. Wind never bothered them because they were close to the ground. The deflector is made by us and simply a 30degree angle that accepted the 1" secondary air seeder hose.

 

[kirschenman]

I am considering building one to utilize my aircart. There would be a lot more interest in this in Western Canada as we get back to using granular herbicides (Edge, Treflan, Fortress, Avadex).

A boom machine is far superior to a spin spreader because it allows a person to evenly distribute material with all sorts of densities. Add in the multiple tanks of an aircart vs a spreader and you could be applying elemental Sulphur, micros and granular herbicide in a single pass.

 

[wetfarmer]

I am considering building one to utilize my aircart. There would be a lot more interest in this in Western Canada as we get back to using granular herbicides (Edge, Treflan, Fortress, Avadex).

A boom machine is far superior to a spin spreader because it allows a person to evenly distribute material with all sorts of densities. Add in the multiple tanks of an aircart vs a spreader and you could be applying elemental Sulphur, micros and granular herbicide in a single pass.

Have you found deflectors ? Or will you build them ?

 

[Dan Vanderwell]

Have you found deflectors ? Or will you build them ?

Here's what I used on mine. 75" between outlets. Seems to work and is cheap.

 

[kirschenman]

I would build deflectors. Dan's look like a good, simple, economical design.