ISU Turf Research Reports

Monday, March 1, 2010

Wakonda Modification

Here are a couple of items our chief fabricator, John Phillips, has made for our operation at Wakonda Club.

1. Spray- hawk caddie for the front of our Toro 300 gallon sprayer.




2. Stands for our 200 gallon workman sprayer.















3. He's now working on a steel jig for a router so we can route our logo into our hand- made tee markers.

















The sprayer stands are a great improvement. We use the workman with the high- flow hydraulics for our top dresser and for a Vicon fertilizer spreader so we are constantly switching attachments. Before this we had to hoist the sprayer off of the workman using our bobcat and some log chains. Not very safe or secure. Now we just raise it up using the four jack stands he purchased at Northern Tool and modified to fit existing slots in the sprayer. The top dresser is a TyCrop which came with its own, similar system. Cost: $400 for the stands and some scrap steel he had laying around.


John Temme, Jim Sedrel, and Taylor Eischen

Wakonda Club

2 comments:

  1. What were the jack stands called at Northern Tool? I can't find them at their website. I'd love to make a set of these for my workman.

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  2. I think I found it...was it http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200332369_200332369

    Can you post a picture of the back?

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