ohiofarmer 3,379 #1 Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) OK, what I have right now is a 1075 and it has only a harbor Freight engine. [Take your pick of a 6.5 Horsepower or a 14 Horsepower] The auto trans works OK and it has 1" axles with auto transmission. It came as a package deal with some mower decks I needed. Right now it is just a tractor that can pull things if I put the wheels back on. It has a cable to the hitch that has been cut for some reason and I suppose that the hitch had some hydraulics hooked to it at some time. My first inclination was to make a front mounted sprayer that was battery powered and just pull the 20 gallon tank behind the tractor. My thoughts are make the sprayer a 4 head 5 foot array that can mount and unmount from the front .I have Three other K series horses to configure as mowers so there is no real need to make this unit do everything. Just kicking this around as the unit is essentially free at this point.Here are My three runners. The mower in the center is my go to mower and the one in the back is taken apart for a paint resto as it was a dirty pig. it is a 12 HP manual Trans and that is my preferred platform of the three. The second [horriblibly over exposed] picture is the 1075 mounted to a two wheeled cart with the 6.5 harbor freight engine. All I can really say at this point is that the engine is mounted and the transmission goes forward and backward with a calculated top speed of about 9 MPH. The engine pulley is four inches, so I have room to go smaller You guys are the experts. Tell me what you think. Edited March 16, 2017 by ohiofarmer 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevasaurus 23,297 #2 Posted March 16, 2017 Don't take this the wrong way, but I was over exposed once and somebody fixed me up. I can't take the sun like I used to. Seriously, I'd get it going with some wheels and have some fun with it...it just might turn into your favorite horse. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 60,301 #3 Posted March 16, 2017 I would put the 14 HP on it. The 4" pulley is probably right for a hydro, won't make it faster, just helps with cooling as I understand it. The short frames are great snow pushers and the hydro would be great for that. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bmsgaffer 2,053 #4 Posted March 17, 2017 I would use caution messing with the pulleys on a hydro. While technically you can spin it faster to go faster, they were designed for 3600rpm MAX. If you spin it too fast you will heat it up way too much and possibly destroy it in short order. I would put a HF 13HP on it with stock pulleys and run it!. Also, I dont think I would want to be behind (breathing in, or over-sprayed by) anything you would spray from that boom, you may want to just leave the sprayer boom behind you if you go that route... just my 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sarge 3,465 #5 Posted March 19, 2017 That is good advice - in general , having the boom on the back of the tank is the way to go and never spray with a tail wind , or any real wind for that matter . That short frame is a lot more useful than you think , btw.... Sarge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ohiofarmer 3,379 #6 Posted March 22, 2017 On 3/16/2017 at 11:42 PM, bmsgaffer said: I would use caution messing with the pulleys on a hydro. While technically you can spin it faster to go faster, they were designed for 3600rpm MAX. If you spin it too fast you will heat it up way too much and possibly destroy it in short order. I would put a HF 13HP on it with stock pulleys and run it!. Also, I dont think I would want to be behind (breathing in, or over-sprayed by) anything you would spray from that boom, you may want to just leave the sprayer boom behind you if you go that route... just my The pulley off the engine is already smaller than stock at 4 inches diameter vs. about 5.5" on the others on my other Horses . THe one on the transmission is smaller than my Electro 12 as well, so i am guessing at what it should be. I could probably run the engine slower to compensate or just change the pulley out to a smaller size like 3". If i had the maximum speed of a1075 tractor, it would be easy to calculate. I know that 9 MPH is too quick and guessing 7MPH may be about right. The sprayer i would build would probably be at least 3-4 feet in front of the tractor and just as far from the operator as a rear mount on a spray trailer. The thing about spraying is to use a cross wind blowing left to right to keep the spray off the operator. i also have found that you can make the spray jets bigger or just put in a pressure reducing shunt line that diverts some of the liquid and therefore pressure back to the tank All you really have to do is measure the amount of water you use per minute vs, the amount of area sprayed per minute to get the spray mix correct. Believe me, yards in town are much more at blame for runoff pollution than are farmers are because townies seem to believe that if a little spray is good then more is better. One of the best 2-4D kills i ever got was spraying the stuff a one pint per acre on my dad's yard to get rid of leftover spray. Buckhorn [plantain] were simply flattened Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elkskin's mower junkyard 1,117 #7 Posted March 22, 2017 37 minutes ago, ohiofarmer said: The pulley off the engine is already smaller than stock at 4 inches diameter vs. about 5.5" on the others on my other Horses . THe one on the transmission is smaller than my Electro 12 as well, so i am guessing at what it should be. I could probably run the engine slower to compensate or just change the pulley out to a smaller size like 3". If i had the maximum speed of a1075 tractor, it would be easy to calculate. I know that 9 MPH is too quick and guessing 7MPH may be about right. The sprayer i would build would probably be at least 3-4 feet in front of the tractor and just as far from the operator as a rear mount on a spray trailer. The thing about spraying is to use a cross wind blowing left to right to keep the spray off the operator. i also have found that you can make the spray jets bigger or just put in a pressure reducing shunt line that diverts some of the liquid and therefore pressure back to the tank All you really have to do is measure the amount of water you use per minute vs, the amount of area sprayed per minute to get the spray mix correct. Believe me, yards in town are much more at blame for runoff pollution than are farmers are because townies seem to believe that if a little spray is good then more is better. One of the best 2-4D kills i ever got was spraying the stuff a one pint per acre on my dad's yard to get rid of leftover spray. Buckhorn [plantain] were simply flattened manual says top speed is 7mph Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
