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Southern Missouri | We ran t40 this past year but after an xag pro 100 demo at the farm we sold the t40 (easy) and bought the xag. Not knocking t40 ,biggest complaint would be quality issues, but that also remains to be seen on xag but build appears to be better on xag to our eyes, we’ll see. We wound up with liking a 26 ft swath on t40 and about 11 ft above canopy height ,ft per second makes a difference too and we like speed at near max on t40, xag goes faster ft per second wise but we’ll have to check all that out as season progresses with xag,We also found we like less than 10 mph breeze with drone flying crosswise to breeze not with or into it ,if breeze blows spray particles into drone collision radar ,it sees them and that screws with drone trying to speed up or slow down, doesn’t do that with crossways to breeze flight pattern,everything at 2 gpa and just doing our own and no custom work makes it easier to find periods of sub 10 mph breeze , usually early morning or late daytime in spring but most of our flying time was mid summer and for our area lot of mid or all day flying time with sub 10 mph during that time frame .we only did 600 acres of burndown in early spring and that was on ground that stays soft in spring time for ground rig and everything else we did with ground rig on burndown ,not hard to find a period of sub 10 mph breeze and get 600 acres done,overall we were tickled with spray pattern behind the t 40 but it greatly effected our adjustments being able to se the pattern so easily behind the desiccation in fall of 22, that greatly helped the whole season of 23,we also did many small areas of herbicide apps in small areas of soybean fields on grassy spots or water hemp spots , when you’re doing your own stuff that kind of thing is handy too, I won’t run our operation without my own spray drone period hope this helps
Edited by sloughclub 1/2/2024 05:01
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When will drone spraying become the norm?
