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Pull type? suspended boom or wheel boom? I don't even know what they make in pull type anymore. Were are you located? Sprayflex makes a nice pull type that can be very customized when you order it. They are located in Minnesota. Ag Trucks near great falls sells and builds a lot of sprayflex stuff also. All great people to deal with. You will deal with the owners and the people doing the building. Look around on here. They are often on this site.
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Of those two I would say Flexicoil but are you talking new or new to you? It is my understanding both are done being manufactured. We have had two Brandts with one the QF which would be the wheel boom and they have their weaknesses in the center frame behind the tank to beef up as well as breaking shocks in rough ground. Our suspended boom was decent but wasn't built heavy enough with stock spindles but would work fine in flat country. There are a lot of Flexicoil wheel sprayers that just keep on going around here and they do get abused in the hills. Lots of the suspended booms also which seem to work well. We have had one with only problem being electronics over the years.
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Agree.
Brandt is also out of the sprayer business.
There are others but I'm not familiar with them.
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Can you still not buy a PT from New Holland and Case which are basically a Flexi-coil?
Lots of Top Airs in the states as well. They are made by Unverferth.
Lots of Top Airs in the states as well. They are made by Unverferth.
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The newer flexicoil sprayers were bullet proof. The brandt suspended boom booms are too light and give problems.
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As of I think last year, Case wasn't building any more pull-type sprayers. So, no more flexicoil sprayers (Flexi-coil sprayers was bought by Case X years ago)
Brandt is out of manufacturing sprayers as well. Not sure if Ag-Shield is making PT sprayers anymore.
So, depending on where home is for you, you might be buying used or buying from a smaller custom outfit.
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What's list on a 1200 sp with 90'?
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Yeah, I get that. Starting to look at used self propelled sprayers and seeing them in the $150k range with around 2000 hours. I was going to stick with pt's, but I think in my case the other way may be better.
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I dont blame you. You know your operation, I do not. Though I may eventually sp one of my pts, towing them with a truck has been truly a fun experience.
Before I bought the pts, I took a good look at what it would take to get the sp to a one man operation. I thought about towing a tank with the sprayer. But the sprayer was not equipped to do so safely and would take too much work and money to make it so. Then a truck with a trailer to haul the sprayer was looked at. But it too, ended up being too much risk loading and unloading the sprayer and anchoring it each time, plus I would not gain the tank capacity I wanted to reduce fill ups.
So I ended up looking at my location to all the distant fields and decided a pt with at least a 1500 gallon tank would reduce all fills in the field as our biggest field is 145 acres, and our "average" gpa is 10. So now with a 2000 gallon sprayer behind a truck, I can fill at home, drive comfortably to the field and spray with only the risk of getting hit by another driver. No loading and unloading the sprayer, no slipping off the steps to fill and load chems in the fields........... It works for me, but may not for anyone else as each operation is different. But I do like the effiency I gained even though I use a pt, over the cost of the sp and the support equipment it would take "for my operation" to run it.
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I bought my 120ft 1500 USG sprayflex from Doug Henke at Chester, MT. New sprayer used truck. Doug has used machines on hand. I put an Agleader auto steer and sectional control in it thanks to Cpusa's advice and have a Rite-Height to install and some Lechler IDKT twin air induction nozzles yet to put on. It was the least expensive highest capacity sprayer I could find. I had very good service from Sprayflex. Small family company that looks after their customers.
The sectional control and auto steer are paying for themselves.
The sectional control and auto steer are paying for themselves.
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