I forget the brand my dad has that I borrow every year. I can find out if you need to know. It kinda depends on what you will use it for. If your gonna spray the yard and need a lot of control so you don't kill something you don't want to the boom is the way to go. If you are going to be in the woods around trees with your food plots, booms can get hung up. (Don't ask how I know this) I like the fine mist the boom puts out myself. Ours has a 25 gallon tank, and with the nozzles we have it sprays right around 1 acre per tank full. You have to find the right speed. The boomless puts out bigger drops to get them to travel that far. We have a 5 foot boom with fold down arms that make it a 10 footer for bigger fields. You might have to play around with different size nozzles to get your spray/pressure like you want it.
Depends on needs...I made a boom for mine, but I'd like a real one. If I were buying again I'd buy the boom and get hose and make a hand sprayer on the rare case I needed one.
Our local farm stores have 25 gallon pull behind sprayers that have both a boom and a hand sprayer attachment for $250. We mix it 1 qt glyphosate to an acre, and usually cover 2-3 acres per tank with great results. I personally am looking into one made by Fimco. It is a 25 gallon ATV mounted sprayer that has a 7 nozzle fold out boom for 140" of coverage, that thing is God's Gift to food plotters...I just can't justify $400 when I already own a 25 gallon pull behind 2 nozzle boom sprayer and a 15 gallon atv mounted hand sprayer....maybe if I sold both of mine and bought the new one.
That's exactly what I am looking at but mine is $349, here is a link! http://www.ruralking.com/agricultur...yers/atv-sprayer-25-gal-w-10-boom-2-1gpm.html
Awesome didn't realize, rural king had a $50 discount over TSC. I doubt I'll end up buying it, but I'd love to have it that's for sure!
What about something like this? I like the idea of not having a boom to get hung up on things. Only problem I see is it would have to be pretty calm out. http://www.ruralking.com/agricultur...ayers/25-gal-boomless-3-8gpm-atv-sprayer.html
That looks better than some of the boomless models I've seen that only have the one nozzle. Looks like a pretty fine mist, which is what I like. Yeah those numbers are most likely under perfect conditions. Which we don't get very often. Go for it.
