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The liquid cart was made from whatever I could find around the place. The rear tyres, hubs and axles are from a Massey Ferguson 3342 pto header. Front castor wheels were laying around here from a Smale multivator, Rapidspray clean water tank, Freedom 5850 L liquid fert tank and of course, your gear as well. The whole lot was put together by KiKi Engineering, and I reckon it all worked pretty well. Wheels tracked same width as tractor tyres. Liquid system was controlled by our KEE eagle.I was applying Phosphorous and trace elements and fungicide, so I needed the brew to be just under the seed. The parallelogram rubber depth stops meant I had to be off centre with the stainless steel tubing, but by TIG welding with stainless steel rods to the stainless steel fertilizer tube brackets and bending the SS 6mm tube back into the centre again, I came up with as good a result as I could achieve. Being tucked inside the parallelogram arms and then being bent back into the centre again meant very good protection from rocks, and of course with coulters up the front meant there was no junk building up on the tyne to interfere with fluid delivery.
We sow about 3 - 3500 acres each year.
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