Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | In an earlier reply you mention:
i was hoping to initially use small premeasured poly tanks or drums to run the chemical amounts to ensure over application does not occur and could not possibly occur.
I try to use this concept as much as possible and practical. I create a spreadsheet that contains the various batch sizes and the amounts of chemicals that I would use with each size. Hopefully there is a reasonable size batch that just happens to use complete jugs or boxes. This can eliminate the need to measure smaller quantities and lessens the potential for confusion.
With our complex recipes it is quite rare to find a batch size that happens to work out with exact containers of all the active products. I have considered premeasuring quantities in smaller containers to aid in this process but really haven't done that. We do make a visual check of the level in our mixing cones as a cross check on the chemical meters on the totes before we release that product into the mix. Having a 30 gallon and an 85 gallon mixing cone give us flexibility and more combinations.
Your concern about mixing up a batches that are overly strong reminds me of my Dad. Back in the day we would put a tank in the back of the old grain truck for water. We had a gas powered transfer pump and packages of the chemical of the day. The batches were mixed in the field.
Often this was Treflan for soybeans. As a safety check, Dad would not allow us to load up more chemical than we should use for that day or that field. His reasoning was that this should act as a cross check for mixing. We should be able to eyeball if we were using way too much or way too little chemical. It could prevent us from making a mixing mistake on a large number of acres. Dad would say if the field is about 1/4 done, you should have used about 1/4 of the chemical on board. |
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