Spray Application GROWNOTES™: Boom Stability - pendulum booms

Name: Spray Application GROWNOTES™: Boom Stability - pendulum booms
Uploaded: 2017-03-02T07:19:33+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube GrowNotes video discussing pendulum-style booms used on John Deere sprayers. Speakers explain that John Deere…

2 Mar 2017 · 1 min

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Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube GrowNotes video discussing pendulum-style booms used on John Deere sprayers. Speakers explain that John Deere mounts the boom on a single center pivot placed low (near the nozzles) to reduce lateral movement when tires hit bumps, improving stability; a centering/firming system is required when raising the boom.

I just want to show you example here of.
A pendulum boom. John Deere choose to have a pendulum.
Boom, so they carry the whole boom on this center point here. And the other thing.
John Deere have.
Chosen to do is bring this point.
Down as low.
As possible to the. To the nozzle. That reduces the possibility of the boom going sideways if you. If the sprayer moves. The positive of that is that if tyres go down a hole or a bit of a bump or whatever, it has less impact on the boom wings. The negative to this is we've got.
To have.
A system that firms up the centre section if the automatic boom height raises a boom or you manually raise it. Otherwise it's a very positive system to have a pendulum boom.