1990 - Volume #14, Issue #4, Page #36
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High Boy 3 Wheeler Great For Spot Spraying
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Jorgenson worked with Jim Adolph, a blacksmith in Milan, Minn., who raised the 3-wheeler 3 1/2 ft. and stretched the rear wheels 5 ft. apart. He removed the wheels, installed steel "stilts", then remounted the wheels and added pulleys and belts to drive them. Jorgenson added a 15-gal. spray tank behind the front wheel, a battery-powered electric spray pump, and a spray wand.
"It's a good way to make use of 3-wheelers which might not otherwise be used because of the danger of operating them," says Jorgenson. "I had been using a bean bar mounted on my front-end loader, but I became concerned about the riders' expo-sure to chemicals. My mini sprayer has 4 ft. of clearance so I can zip right up to a weed patch at any crop stage.. The sprayer can even go through 5 ft. of corn because the plants will bend over. The wide wheelbase makes it surprisingly stable. I've never tipped it. The wheels are spaced to let me go through 30-in. rows. Tin shields in front of the wheels brush back corn and soybeans to keep the wheels from driving over them.
"If I could build it again I'd change a few things. It needs a segmented belt because it does have some slippage in tough going. The 15-gal. spray tank is too big and heavy. I'd use a smaller tank. I also wouldn't try to build it so it can't be convened back to a 3-wheeler. The extra work wasn't worth the effort."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Jorgenson, RR 1, Montevideo, Minn. 56265 (ph 612 734-4951).
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