Drift now vs 5 years ago

[freewheat]

A huge part of it here, is that if there is a tree on your land, or bordering your land, you rip them out. Gotta get that extra 12 feet! My land is mostly surrounded by treelines, or bordered by lakes, or my own land. for the most part. I can spray somewhere on my land almost any day of the week, in any wind direction. A LOT of woods have disappeared, tree-lines are gone, yard sites are gone.

Of course it is windy!

For here at least, that is IMHO, the reason there are more drift issues now. My tree lines will stay. So I can continue to spray and play. They make excellent travel corridors for game, and I like eating game!

Along with that fact, guys never used to do multiple passes at the sight of four weeds. The sprayer is the new tractor, it gets used almost all summer long, and most everyone has a high clearance. When you see one go through a dip at an angle, and one boom is eight feet off the ground, you gotta wonder.

[fjlip]

A huge part of it here, is that if there is a tree on your land, or bordering your land, you rip them out. Gotta get that extra 12 feet! My land is mostly surrounded by treelines, or bordered by lakes, or my own land. for the most part. I can spray somewhere on my land almost any day of the week, in any wind direction. A LOT of woods have disappeared, tree-lines are gone, yard sites are gone.

Of course it is windy!

For here at least, that is IMHO, the reason there are more drift issues now. My tree lines will stay. So I can continue to spray and play. They make excellent travel corridors for game, and I like eating game!

Along with that fact, guys never used to do multiple passes at the sight of four weeds. The sprayer is the new tractor, it gets used almost all summer long, and most everyone has a high clearance. When you see one go through a dip at an angle, and one boom is eight feet off the ground, you gotta wonder.

You got it Free, 15 mph, 8 feet in the air here too! My wheel boom, at 10mph, 20" max from target all day long, any terrain. Same here ALL fencelines, yards, any tree, even power lines privately buried for that.

[Braveheart]

Was once accused of drift on a neighbors wheat field. We had records of wind direction, speed and chem used. That helped the agologists consulting look elsewhere. It turned out to be wheat mosaic around the edges of field from uncontrolled volunteer winter wheat. Point is, we kept records that helped in our liability in this case.

[Braveheart]

Wheat streak mosaic that is.

[farmaholic]

Ok I'll admit it, 110-04 turbo teejets and 110-015 Greenleaf Turbo Drop.

Still say coverage is key.... higher water, lower pressures and reasonable speeds.