Overall I think that you must feel pleased with the outcome today, In my view a real credit to your engineering thoughts, ideas and skills to get it all together and functioning properly. Clearly at 6.5 miles per hour you have to be able to trust what is going on behind as there is no room for driving errors from looking / checking behind. Total congratulations. Dan
Nice rig. I built one several years ago a tool bar like yours out of anhydrous bar. Finally evolved into a hydraulic pump with flow meter and hiniker 8100 controller. Great videos keep them coming. I enjoy them very much.
Good video Ethan! Corn looks good and your applicator looks like its doing a great job. I would say that your corn is taller than most over here in Monroe county. I remember applying anhydrous on tall corn back in the day. With sandy soils we always side dressed and got better results I believe for it. Sometimes we could see a couple tassles .
That brings back memories to me lol just a good guess as to what you you are applying but it is a good start. I definitely love my raven 450 monitor and hydraulic drive pump. Last few years I have been spraying on the nitrogen with the 1st pass much easier and herbicides tend to work much better
I see a couple Visio gauge balls running lower. I put in smaller Orfices and it raised my pressure enough to equal them . O I see in video you figured it out.
I have really looked forward to seeing the applicator in the field. It was really interesting watching you put it together last winter. I know you are going to get it tuned exactly where you want it.
FYI, I built a side dress rig of my own with the exact same set up (pump and plumbing). I have noticed similar issues with my visagage (I'm using steel as well). From what I have noticed, the rows that run deeper in the ground (ones closer to the center) will show lower flow than the ones that tend to ride up (the ones on the winglet). I realize that the knifes are downstream of the orifices, but just something I have noticed. I have also noticed that going through different soil types have an effect on how it looks on the visagage. That said, the overall application rate is dead on. I have the exact same plumbing on my planter but with injectors and not knifes and notice no difference between rows hence why I think it might have something to do with the knifes. Nice job on your set-up regardless! Your channel is one of my favorites and the one that final caused me to set out and start my own channel. Keep it up!
Great job Ethan, don’t be too hard on yourself young man, it’s gonna take some acres and some mistakes to get er dialed in, as you already know. A wide front end would work better. You’re smart, you’ll get it, I have the utmost faith in you👍🏻
If you place your extra valve between the stainer and the tee you could shut it to keep filling pressure off the strainer side of the system while filling.
Nice build, working good for a fraction of the cost. Always wanted to try sidedressing. Don't know how it would work on hills and funny shaped fileds. Worried about knocking down down. How much total N are you shooting for on corn. We do pre plant anhydrous.
Different length hoses will flow different rates, also the # of bends have to be the same in all hoses. There is a tube video on this showing the differences.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy technically he is correct. The pressure at the inlet to each individual nozzle orifice is going to be something less than the pressure at the flow manifold. Each nozzle will see a pressure reduction resulting from the friction loss of the hose and any elbows or other fittings. So longer lines or lines with more elbows, etc will experience greater pressure drop than short lines with few fittings. However, in your case with such short runs and few fittings the pressure drop difference between the various lines would likely be very minimal. It's not like you're running 24 rows wide.
Well, your corn looks a hell of a lot better than mine. Thought I was nitrogen deficient, I'm 2 weeks behind you planting because of the "monsoon season" & only at V5 at best & some of it is yellowing but it shouldn't be cause I laid enough cow shit & lime last fall & fert. this spring as well & the PH is bang on 6. My neighbour, Old Kermitt says it's likely it's just been too wet & cool for corn this year so far, except for the 4 day hot spell, our daytime highs have been in the 50's & 60's & as low as 42 at night. I'm glad I got what Hay I did get done cause it's been an on again off again affair with the rain ever since.
The kinks of using a new-to-you piece of equipment can try your patience to say the least. Looking good so far...hope you settle into your comfort zone . Wondered how the 4-150 with singles and saddle tanks would work?
It looks like you have lines clogged or inconsistent application based on how the balls are bouncing in the flow indicator. We have Red Ball flow indicators in our planter and the balls are all the same height when everything is working correctly.
