[AT] OT-now GPS

[Cecil R Bearden]

Ralph:
I have one of those EZ guide systems and I have not figured it out 
completely yet.   There is also a lot of ground clutter here which 
causes me to lose signal a lot.  I am going to use mine as the receiver 
antenna to connect to a system by Josh Heupel in Canada. He has 
developed a system for a low cost and it runs on a laptop.   I bought a 
solid state drive netbook.  The screen is a lot easier for me to see.

I started doing my own spraying because the one that sprays here uses a 
60 ft boom on a terragator, and the boom is 4 ft off the ground at the 
middle.  \Out ground is rough and when you run 15 mph like they do, the 
boom is jumping up and down and misses a lot due to the fan of the spray 
nozzles.  He only charges $3 per acre tto spray, but when I do it with 
my little 24 ft pull type sprayer,  I get a lot better affect.  I make 
sure I stay downwind of the liquid when filling and wear rubber gloves 
when working on the sprayer, or filling...  I keep a box of gloves in 
the tractor cab.  I believe by using reasonable care, a fellow can 
prevent a lot of chemical problems.    I also found that when using 
2-4-D, to mix it with a 1gallon/acre tank mix of 38% nitrogen.  It makes 
the weeds take on the chemical a lot faster and gives that herbicide an 
extra punch.   In fact I can use the minimum amount of chemical when 
adding nitrogen.

Cecil in OKla



On 4/8/2015 8:58 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 4/8/2015 7:11 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> I learned a very long time ago to have a salt shaker handy when other guys
>> (especially some of the big guys) were telling me how much money or time
>> something was saving them so that I could take it with a grain of salt...
>> :-)
>> I had several other reasons to hire that work done. Not the least of which
>> was that I was always working at other things myself, many of which payed
>> me better than the $4 an acre I was paying for custom application.
>> Another big reason was that I suddenly noticed that an excessive number of
>> the farmers that I grew up around had died of cancer. Many were
>> unbelievably careless in handling farm chemicals. One custom applicator and
>> I were talking about it one day and he said that he had recently had a
>> number of polyps removed from inside of his nose. While we were talking he
>> was pouring some 2-4-D concentrate into the tank and it was running across
>> his hand and down to his elbow and he just ignored it completely. One time
>> when I was working in seed corn research for Garst Seeds we were planting a
>> 4 acre research plot in southwestern Indiana and the farm owner and his
>> grown son were getting ready to plant soybeans. The son had been disking
>> all morning and spraying Trefflan (sp?) at the same time. The son was
>> heavily covered from head to toe with the stuff and was as yellow as a fire
>> hydrant... No eye-wear, no respirator... Nothing...  (shudder)
>> I just decided that I wanted to remove that exposure from my lifestyle.
> And what amazes me is the number of gardeners who don't have any concern
> about using
> roundup or other chemical herbicides in their garden to control weeds!?
> To me that is just
> ridiculous exposing the plants you are going to eat to chemical
> herbicides when there are
> alternatives like mulching , the roto tiller or even the hoe.  My garden
> has not seen chemicals
> or bug dust. I figure it is one small way I can avoid some of the risk.
> I get enough exposure
> spraying my field crops. Obviously hand weeding or hoeing a hundred acre
> field is not an option.
> I bought my GPS system a few years back mainly for peace of mind
> although no doubt it saves
> me some herbicide. The frustration of not being able to see  where to
> drive with the sprayer in some
> fields. I was having either tremendous overlap or missing wide strips of
> ground. With the guide
> all that is eliminated. I set it on "contour" and it paints the ground
> on the screen I've covered a different
> color to what is left to do. 60 feet, one foot over/under lap using the
> free satellite signal.
> Good enough for me.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
>>
>>
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