Verified FBN Member (MN)

Machinery

Has anyone tried or is anyone using truck airbag scales on a SP fertilizer spreader with airbag?

Put a Newleader 4330 on my Rogator and was thinking about trying the truck airbag weight sensors to weigh the box....The box has a multapplier and it would solve some concerns I'm having regarding calibrating two beds when loading out of a hopper trailer.

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Verified FBN Member (OR)

If you go this route be sure to frame up the box well or it can lead to the metal cracking out. Stainless is not so forgiving if it flexes.

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Verified FBN Member (ND)

Have an air scale on a semi. Air ride trailer air ride tractor. Can't get the dumb thing calibrate with in 15,000#s either way. Truck weighs 65000 or 95000. Never remotely close to 80,000. You have to be on perfect level concrete for it to work. We never are.

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Verified FBN Member (KS)

With the price or fertilizer I personally feel like investing in accurate scale bars would be a better choice in my opinion. But I’m also not familiar with the accuracy of the newest airbags either

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Verified FBN Member (NC)

you can still get fertilizer? Wow. We cant get lime here in NC much less Fertilizer. Corn be 25 dollars when nobody can grow any

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Verified FBN Member (NE)

Should work just as semi systems work

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