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Post by carlos on Oct 16, 2020 19:30:04 GMT -6
I use whatever Canadian tire has on sale, even then if is over 300 dollars and they r the cheapest I've found. I fill my rinse tank, run it into the tank and then flush booms until I see it on the ground all the way to the end. Then I leave whatever is left in tank and booms. Been doing that for ten years and no problems so far.
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Post by Lucas @ Wilger on Oct 16, 2020 19:37:53 GMT -6
Hehe Kevlar, I was downright going to go on work strike this morning when I saw -10, and I didn't even have to shovel grain. Was a pretty clear picture that winter is coming.
Sure enough I took my scraper out of the truck two weeks ago, so I suppose I'm to blame that winter came now.
Torriem, when you are blowing your boom out, do you just give 'er air pressure and cycle through each section from the tank one by one? I suppose those without solenoid control at the boom (just straight check valves) might have a tough time getting the full oomph of air down to the last bodies to get a full clean. You guys get a milder winter than us in Sask/Manitoba too, which might help a bit too. That being said, my sister was just driving to Red Deer right now through a pretty good skiff of snow, and we've yet to see snow out this way.
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Post by Lucas @ Wilger on Oct 16, 2020 19:57:40 GMT -6
I dunno, seems like I recall guys having a decent time buying it bulk for like around the $1.50/L, so might be like $300 for a 50gal drum, so you might have two year's worth of it.
Heck, flush with antifreeze and then drain back into the drum if you wanted it drained over winter too. Might be able to stretch a drum to 3 seasons. lol
EDIT: You know I might be straight up remembering wrong on the pricing. Might be remembering moreso what a few guys were paying for washerfluid and flushing with that.
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Post by kevlar on Oct 16, 2020 20:15:34 GMT -6
Just picked some up yesterday from RME, 80 liters was 130ish?
Do any of you guys try to catch the antifreeze and reuse it? We tried once but never found a place to really collect much of it. We spray until it runs pure out the nozzles so it's only in the lines, tank is empty, nowhere on our 7660 Spra Coup to drain the lines.
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Post by jaymo on Oct 16, 2020 20:34:58 GMT -6
I use the on-board air to blow out the booms. I also drain the tank and a couple other spots on the tank and pump plumbing. Then dump in about 6 5gal. pails of Hy-boy sprayer antifreeze into the rinse tank. Circulate through pump, rinse and sparge loop. Then turn on each section till I see blue. I also crack the valve on each section after to take the latent pressure off and park it. Has worked well.
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Post by carlos on Oct 16, 2020 21:23:02 GMT -6
Yes I reuse what I catch from draining tank in the spring, usually 2 or 3 20litre pails
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Post by SWMan on Oct 16, 2020 21:27:38 GMT -6
I just get the stuff at Mazergroup, seems they sell a pile of it so must be a decent price. I drain the boom and plumbing, then add usually 60L of the antifreeze and re-circulating boom doesn't take much, run it so it re-circulates everywhere and spray it out, then drain again. To drain I usually park on a steep hill sideways and crack a nozzle diaphragm at the end of each wet boom section.
Probably do this tomorrow, never sprayed one acre this fall. So dry nothing really growing at all, pro-tilled the few kochia or foxtail barley patches there were and called it a day. Was so windy probably couldn't have done more than a few fields anyway. I guess that two year old glyphosate will go back in the shed for next year...
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Post by torriem on Oct 16, 2020 21:38:02 GMT -6
Torriem, when you are blowing your boom out, do you just give 'er air pressure and cycle through each section from the tank one by one? I suppose those without solenoid control at the boom (just straight check valves) might have a tough time getting the full oomph of air down to the last bodies to get a full clean. You guys get a milder winter than us in Sask/Manitoba too, which might help a bit too. That being said, my sister was just driving to Red Deer right now through a pretty good skiff of snow, and we've yet to see snow out this way. First I push air with the boom ends open to get rid of most of the water in them (one section at a time). Then I shut the valves and ran them a couple of times until the nozzles didn't mist anymore. Then I opened the boom ends again and ran air again for no particular reason. We get -40 for at least a few weeks each winter. We do warm up more than you do though. Although lately we don't get chinook winds much anymore. |
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Post by kevlar on Oct 16, 2020 21:57:24 GMT -6
I just get the stuff at Mazergroup, seems they sell a pile of it so must be a decent price. I drain the boom and plumbing, then add usually 60L of the antifreeze and re-circulating boom doesn't take much, run it so it re-circulates everywhere and spray it out, then drain again. To drain I usually park on a steep hill sideways and crack a nozzle diaphragm at the end of each wet boom section. Probably do this tomorrow, never sprayed one acre this fall. So dry nothing really growing at all, pro-tilled the few kochia or foxtail barley patches there were and called it a day. Was so windy probably couldn't have done more than a few fields anyway. I guess that two year old glyphosate will go back in the shed for next year... Wasn't it a brutal fall for wind and trying to spray? We only got 900 acres done, and did half of that one day early on when we had nothing else ready to combine, the rest was spread out over an hour here and there, sprayed 2.5 tanks out on Thanksgiving Sunday, was the best shot we had since the first stuff we did. Some of ours is now going on 4 falls without getting done, too wet, too much snow, too much snow AND too much wet, then too much wind! |
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Post by badaltitude on Oct 19, 2020 8:46:09 GMT -6
Local RME sells sprayer antifreeze for $285/205 litre barrel. I see the antifreeze is manufactured in Leduc so maybe this is just a local deal. To do the job properly seems to use up the whole barrel. I no longer bother draining and saving any remaining antifreeze because Ive had a near wreck doing so having frozen antifreeze forced out through various fittings. Likely from being diluted with water in the sprayer plumbing. I also now drain out the antifreeze when done.
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Post by bap on Oct 20, 2020 4:31:20 GMT -6
Well guess I'm the only one to use air exclusively. And I didn't vote in my own poll. Haha. Been using air exclusively for many years with zero issues, and will keep on doing it (just using shop air compressor). Haven't had any issues with the solenoids thus far. We shall see how it goes. I don't really have a desire to run antifreeze through my sprayer. I guess I'm surprised that very few people use air, especially with the simple traditional sprayer systems. Also everyone blows out their underground sprinklers and those have valves but never have had a crack there either, and the fancy turbine-driven sprinklers seem to be fine. I have never worried about my sprayer flow meter with compressed air. My older sprayer I rebuild the flow meter every year anyway, and the Patriot has a turbine-style flow meter that I wouldn't worry at all about with air. With cold weather approaching tonight, I just finished pulling out my intakes from the ponds. Will blow out the underground mainlines next week (yes we use compressed air for just about everything related to winterizing!  ) Thinking seriously of buying our own big compressor. Makes short work of blowing off the combines, besides blowing out main lines. And if warm weather returns, I may tank up the sprayer again and go put some Valtera down for lentils next year. I have always just drained and blow out as well...
On my old willmar it was easy to just take the flow meter off and put it in a box in the basement...on the jd I run now I just leave it on and make sure it is drained...then I just leave everything I take apart open and hanging then reassemble in the spring.
Worst problem I ever had was a small cracked elbow that I overlooked on the old willmar years ago...
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) Thinking seriously of buying our own big compressor. Makes short work of blowing off the combines, besides blowing out main lines.