Simple Yet Sophisticated | Student Adapts Equipment for Variable-Rate Application

"It could be built less expensively than commercial ones," he says. "We have a lot of terraced ground and point rows, so we need lots of flexibility across the implement. The manufactured ones are more rigid and wouldn't fit the contours of the ground as well." "I made...

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Published in:Corn and Soybean Digest 2011-12
Main Author: Krueger, Shannon
Format: Article
Language:English
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Grain
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Summary:"It could be built less expensively than commercial ones," he says. "We have a lot of terraced ground and point rows, so we need lots of flexibility across the implement. The manufactured ones are more rigid and wouldn't fit the contours of the ground as well." "I made my own tank cradle by rolling some sheet metal and reinforcing it with steel tubing," [Riffel] says. "Fertilizers are so corrosive that the wiring connections are corroding," he says. "I am going to replace some connectors with Weather Pack connectors to prevent this from happening."
ISSN:1544-1644