Spraying Corn And Breaking The Sprayer

Finally getting some much needed spraying done and broke the boom on the sprayer. Got it all fixed and all the corn ground is covered.

[@jefffirefighter12106]

Your like me, I wait for the wind to be as calm as possible to spray. Not like the big boys, they spray when ever they can because they have too! good luck with your crop this season!

[@hacc220able]

The "joys" of maintaining older equipment would test even Job. Thanks for sharing.

[@cranerigging3604]

Nice work on the spray boom repair , she's good for another 10 years !

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@corkhayman5064]

Enjoyed the video, like always. Made by back sore watching. Thanks for sharing.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Thanks.

[@peanutsmith1462]

Old man told me son nothing last forever you have to fix stuff from time to time 👍👍

[@bradleybisping]

Really enjoy your videos. I started watching when you were on before. Glad your back. Reminds me of helping my uncle farm close to 500 acres back in the 70’s. Big tractor was a Minneapolis Moline M670 Super LP gas for the tillage work and planted with a Farmall M and 4 row wide planter. I remember he had a sprayer almost ide

[@bradleybisping]

Identical to yours. Pulled that with a Farmall H.

[@Ghettocowboy33]

On the bright side the pipe sounds great!

[@kylebass4635]

That's real nice Clarke; Priceless 🤣🤣😅😂😂 My neighbor works for the EPA; he don't know what I spray either; the special blend LOL

[@tonyhester9262]

Nice Oliver my grandfather worked almost a thousand acres with a 60 row crop he bought new in the 40’s with my dad and his six brothers.

[@JDwoman]

Your not alone, here in southwest Iowa the corn went in the ground near perfect. Then cold and wet and no one went with any pre-plant herbicide and things got ugly.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Same here. A lot of fields were a mess for a while.

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

From what I can tell, the guys here in Arkansas have been having pretty good luck with the corn (once they were able to get it in the ground that is). Whats funny is that planting corn in this area was almost unheard of until relatively recently. Its pretty much all rice, cotton, soybeans and milo around here.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

New hybrid technology has put corn in a lot of areas that would have never been heard of before. With yields you never would have been able to get.

[@ghenry85]

Those welds still look good my man. Your corn, I see what you saying about it being not good. Ours needs some rain, it's dry. 500 gallon works nice. Ours is an old 500gal that started it's life as a truck mount, then a nieghbour made it in to a single axle trailer with I think 14x22inch tires oppose to tandem axles on most 500 gallon sprayers it's age.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

My buddy’s dad has the sprayer I really want. 500 gallon Demco on walking tandems with a 45 foot suspended boom.

[@ghenry85]

@@Oliver66FarmBoy That sounds good. I don't know if tandems are better or worse than big singles. Tramp down a bit more but it may float better.

[@theokusters7491]

Same story in SW-Ontario: everything looked good, we were nice and early.... and now crops looks like shit. Also at the big farms....

[@stevengodwin4837]

Feel your pain brother

[@chrisrickets9873]

Our corn looks about the same as yours we just finished spraying today. Hopefully we will get a little rain soon

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

We need rain bad for once.

[@davidcurtiscrowell5367]

Where did you mount the GPS on your tractor. LOL. Love the old school farm tech.

[@lynnhavenfarm8514]

That sucks how it went that way. It's the same story here in northeast pa. The life of a farmer. I hope harvest goes decent for you.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

I don’t have high hopes.

[@lynnhavenfarm8514]

Understandable

[@farmdude1008]

It’s too bad that field is so patchy. I guess your working with the chemical FBI lol. Those welds weren’t to bad. Have a good one

[@michaeldierks3708]

If you get a chance, I’m curious to see how that field looks a week from now. Hope it turns out better than you’re expecting, however even on camera it was pretty obvious Mother Nature hasn’t been kind to it.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

This is a good field. It gets worse.

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day mate sorry to see the corn field like that i now how hard you worked to plant it. I know why you can't tell us what's in the sprayer tank it was the KFC secret herbs and spices 😁😋

[@mattutke9985]

I share your frustration buddy, things don't always go the way you want, someone once told Me that it doesn't matter what make the farm equipment is, shit breakdown, I'm in the middle of mowing my yard with my John Deere X380 that's what's I'm doing

[@robmiller2919]

A good cultivator set tight could clean that up.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Hard to cultivate when you have 14 inch tall corn mixed with corn that isn’t out of the ground yet. And a cultivator won’t get marestail once it’s established. It will just make it angry.

[@robmiller2919]

@@Oliver66FarmBoy that is true

[@bryanginder5903]

Try to mount some sort of shocks on the booms to help soften the bouncing, even tho it's a cheap sprayer might help, my top air sprayer has them an they really help the booms just float!

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

The booms are spring mounted.

[@bryanginder5903]

@@Oliver66FarmBoy o I suppose, didn't think of that, them older ones were that way, remembering back my old 3pt one was that way also. If I remember the lite weight booms springs an rough fields really make them move!

[@blainsaunders8378]

Damn your corn looks better then my corn here up north

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

This is a good field. It gets worse.

[@eastpantherbenz]

You have water hemp up there at all? That shit is fun to deal with lol

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Not really here ground is to heavy. To the east and north on the sand and to the west on the muck it’s all over.

[@oliver-ht1lv]

Was the 66 surging a little bit in the beginning when you were talking about the pump ?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Yes

[@kegar79]

Real nice Clark. haha

[@ssnydertrucking1121]

I have found that most of the cordless power tools out there today are weaker than strained cat piss. We are so dry here i tried to do some dozer work and ended up wearing more dirt home on me than i pushed, very dry here in kansas.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

The Milwaukee stuff is really good. Just can’t buy the cheap batteries which is what most of them come with in the box for some reason. Have to buy the good ones on their own.

[@tca375]

Keep plugging away!All you can do.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Yep

[@realmongo7565]

Listening to the 66 surging, maybe time for some work on the governor?

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

It’s an adjustment in the bump screw. I keep forgetting to do it. There is only one notch in the throttle where it surges.

[@jeffreygiesige663]

Here's to hoping the thinner stands put on some real baseball bats for ears since they have room to stretch their legs between each other.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

We can only hope.

[@mackcamp2192]

Yes this year has been challenging. I ended up having to replant about 60% off my beans. They got literally hammered into the ground with rain then cold😰

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Lots of replant around here. Some guys are still doing it.

[@mike1967obu]

What do you think your break even in bushels will need to be

[@429webb]

At the price it is now. 250 to 300

[@noahranker4133]

Steve webb what? No you must be stupid

[@429webb]

We dont raise corn anymore all no till beans and wheat, cover crops, different situation then your in

[@mrbill4187]

I haven't seen any good corn this year near me, all inconsistent and yellow and poor emergence.

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

About the same here. It did start to green up here recently after a little rain but height is all over the place.

[@BB-kk6oi]

Probly got dyecamba in it

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Firstly is Dicamba, and no, that’s not even legal to spray anymore