Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
I’m replacing a boomed femco sprayer for my atv and wanted some opinions on whether to go back with or get a boomless?
Boom or boomless atv sprayer
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Gravel Road
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Depends on what you are spraying. Booms are precise and great for food plots, boomless are better for rough or wooded areas. I have both, a 25 gal on a 4 wheeler and an Enduraplas 100 gal in a side by side. Sometimes you need both. Depending on your pump, it's pretty easy to plumb and swap out either. Since you already have the boom, I'd buy the boomless and use whichever one you want.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
It would be for food plots. My other crapped the bed...tank cranked and valves wouldn’t turn off to the boom when trying to use the nozzle gun. May go back with boomed but try a different brand. Really the only two brands I know are femco and northstar. Any others I should look at?
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
My agspray is from Mankato. I've replaced the pump a couple times but otherwise it's been good. My beef with it is that it's preposterous to imagine a $700 sprayer not having a drain plug. I've put in some nice habitat and plots with it, but it's boomless feature had made me always using high rates and volumes. It throws droplets to achieve it's width.
Gravel Road
5 year old buck +
I'd stick with booms for food plots. As far as brands go, I run a 25 gal Cropcare on the ATV, but I don't know if it's worth the money IMHO. I have used the heck out of it spraying pasture and think I've had it for nearly 10 years. I replaced the tank once since it had cracked at the mount points, and had to put in a new pump solenoid this year. Not terrible, but they are fairly spendy. Last year I went to Enduraplas for the side by side, but boy they are expensive! First seen them in use on a 4 wheeler during a fire burning class put on by the state, and they really liked them. 10 year tank warranty on Enduraplas.
If you run a bunch of chemical through it you minght want to upgrade, but if you are only running a 100 gal or so through it each year it might be cheaper to buy a new one every couple years.
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Hey Gravel Rd, what boom did you go with on the Endura? I thought the 20' seemed enough for now, considering rugged plots. I was considering the F/S sprayer, but in the end I went with the dealer that was closer to home. Not that I'm hoping to need much dealer support. What model did you get? I guess my model is the Fieldboss 365 which seems more suitable for field spraying and less for tree spraying or fire fighting.
Gravel Road
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I went with the Xstream on the advise of their engineers. I have a lot of hedge trees to combat and they advised this model over the 365 since it puts out higher pressure. The drawback is that it will not run the 30 ft booms like the 365. This is also my fire rig for pasture burning so it has a little more reach. The 365 puts out a heck of a lot more volume though!
It's a little wierd that I have booms on my 4 wheeler and boomless on the UTV. The main factor was that I was really getting worn out trying to keep invasives out of my pastures with a little 25 gal tank on a 4 wheeler. It would take days and days each spring and it seemed like all I'd never get ahead. WIth the Xstream, I managed to do 160 acres in one medium day, and killed nearly every hedge tree and thistle in the pasture. I just tilted my boomless nozzles up in the air and could reach about 15 feet up and just drove around and in between trees. Worked awesome. Whatever wouldn't reach you can just hit with the hand wand. Some areas of the pasture is very overgrown with dogwoods. etc so didn't want to run booms. Eventually I'll get the 20 ft booms. They should work great on lespedeza patches.
How do you like the booms? You can probably travel pretty fast with the volume the 365 puts out, can't you?
It's a little wierd that I have booms on my 4 wheeler and boomless on the UTV. The main factor was that I was really getting worn out trying to keep invasives out of my pastures with a little 25 gal tank on a 4 wheeler. It would take days and days each spring and it seemed like all I'd never get ahead. WIth the Xstream, I managed to do 160 acres in one medium day, and killed nearly every hedge tree and thistle in the pasture. I just tilted my boomless nozzles up in the air and could reach about 15 feet up and just drove around and in between trees. Worked awesome. Whatever wouldn't reach you can just hit with the hand wand. Some areas of the pasture is very overgrown with dogwoods. etc so didn't want to run booms. Eventually I'll get the 20 ft booms. They should work great on lespedeza patches.
How do you like the booms? You can probably travel pretty fast with the volume the 365 puts out, can't you?
yoderjac
5 year old buck +
If you are looking for accuracy in spraying, use a boom sprayer and mounting it on a tractor is best. Boomless sprayers are very fast and convenient, but won't provide the accuracy of a boom mounted sprayer.
Thakns,
Jack
I always find it interesting that what works best for one doesnt work best for another. I have had both. The only thing I found better suited to a boom sprayer was taller standing crops like sunflowers, corn, or soybeans. When I quit planting those, I havent used a boom sprayer since - and I plant about fifty to sixty acres of food plots each year - plus control various “noxious” species in my fields and along my trails
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
Sorry so I’m assuming that means you’ve gone boomless?
yes - a lot of my food plots have a few trees in them and boom sprayers are are a pain in the butt around trees - not only spraying - but getting there if your trails are tight. Not to mention, I am spraying 25 ft a pass. I also find boomless to be better spraying taller weeds. No doubt - boom sprayers are better in the wind.
yoderjac
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I wasn't suggesting a boom sprayer is "best". Like you say, it really depends on the application. A properly calibrated boom sprayer on a tractor can deliver a much more accurate amount of product than a boomless sprayer. Boomless sprayers need to spray large droplets of water over a long distance. When attached to an ATV/UTV there is also more variability of ground speed (applies to both types of sprayer). I boomless sprayer can deliver product in places where a tractor can't go. They can be adjusted to spray much higher and to the side as well. They are just different tools for different purposes.
For most food plot applications, I like the boom sprayer (I have both). Beyond the innate lack of accuracy in the boomless design, I had a hard time not getting too much overlap or skipping spots between passes. With the boom sprayer, I just built a cheap "Po Boy" foamer which lets me know exactly where I sprayed on the last pass. I used to uses the boomless strayer along logging roads and trails, but I've stopped that. I come to the place where I want to minimize the use of herbicides and spraying along trails was just affording more opportunity for herbicide resistance. Beyond that, I found that herbaceous plants were being killed as well and they tend to help with soil erosion along my roadways. I've since turned to mechanical means for keeping logging roads and trails in check. It takes more time, but it worth it to me.
If I could only buy one for food plots, it would be a boom sprayer, but it is great having both.
Thanks,
Jack
Howboutthemdawgs
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What brand are you running?
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
This one?
FIMCO 25 Gallon ATV Sprayer 3 Nozzle Boomless
The FIMCO 25 Gallon 3 Nozzle Boomless Broadcast ATV Sprayer is built for large area liquid coverage in a compact platform. Best in class of entry...
www.fimcoindustries.com
Yes - that is it. I have had it two years - broke the part where the plastic tube comes out of the bottom where the on off valve is. I take it out of my ranger when not in use - and these fimco's are not industrial strength. Need to be careful when picking it up and moving it around. Other than that, it has worked well.This one?
FIMCO 25 Gallon ATV Sprayer 3 Nozzle Boomless
The FIMCO 25 Gallon 3 Nozzle Boomless Broadcast ATV Sprayer is built for large area liquid coverage in a compact platform. Best in class of entry...
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