What is the best Sprayer Tender setup?

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Just bought a 1000 gal self-propelled sprayer for the farm, looking for ideas on best tender setup for the sprayer. The sprayer does have an educator on it. I Will be spraying most fields by myself, if I receive help it will be inconsistent. Show me what you've got and thoughts. Thanks

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Check out JD Skiles "Pit Stop" trailer and system. We love ours. https://www.jdskiles.com/pitstop-systems

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We have a 53ft van trailer with 4 seperate 1700 gallon tanks all set up to pull out of any one or multiple tanks at a time with 3in plumbing, 3 inductor cones for pre batching chemicals and room for 4 pallets/totes. Absolutely love this setup because everything is out of the weather and you can shut/lock the doors and have peace of mind. One and only single downfall is the length. But you quickly get used to that

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Buy a 1000 gal nurse trailer and do hot loads to sprayer remember the less elbows the easier it is to clean no chemical totes on the road people are out to get the farmers

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I use scales and put manifold on suction side of pump. Works great!

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Put 2 2500 gallon tanks in 48’ cargo trailer. 4 shuttles fit to rear on one side. 2 cyclones & pump on other. One man show for quite a while.

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Phiber is only way to go, Had one for a few years now this winter set up another .

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We’ve had a few different ones over the years. Depending on how far away your fields are will matter the most. Anything under 7mi you could road back and forth to your yard from field to reload. If that’s not an option or not appealing, find either a trailer or 20’ tandem truck. How much you want to spray in a day is the next step to figure out. I’d say at a minimum you want a 6000gal water storage or fast fill up location, then a 3000 gal tank on either a trailer or tandem. You want a simple induction metering system, go with meters and a valve teed into your main feed line after the pump. Let it work like a Venturi and suck the chemical out of the totes and meter it, it’ll be right more often than it isn’t. Takes up minimal space and cheap. BatchBoy systems have a great setup too and is fairly affordable, they don’t sell with a pump though. Go look at neighbors setups and see what they have and like or not like. Might see something you can copy and/or modify to meet your needs.

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Are you going to pull it with a truck? If so the way I set mine up is a 3000 gallon tank on the back of a 24 foot grain truck with room for two totes and then I would throw all the box chemical in the frame of the trailer. I am a one-man operation as well so it saves a lot of time not having to drag a trailer everywhere to go get water

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Here’s my outfit. Best part is, I put the whole thing together for less than $3500. 
42’trailer was bought at auction for $1,000
(2) 1500 gallon tanks were $850 each at Tractor Supply. 
Pump, cone, few valves I needed were purchased used or really cheap. 
This setup has worked well for me for about 6 years now. There’s easy room for 4 chem totes, plus about 8’ of flat deck on the back to stack boxes next to the mixing cone. Everything is easy to use and nothing is complicated. Biggest downfall is my chemical pump isn’t very fast pumping from the totes, so I often have to slow the water pump down for a few minutes to let the chemicals catch up

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