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Thought I would add a recent project that I have been working on with mounting a chemical sprayer and spreader onto my Kodiak. The attached pictures are pretty much the roughed in end product which I may clean up a bit but ultimately serves its purpose. With that said I do know that there are other mounts in the market that may have worked for my ATV but I had trouble finding exactly what I wanted. On the plus side I was able to create what I wanted and for a mere fraction of the cost. Hopefully this will help anyone else looking for similar setups or at least spark your own creativity. I definitely welcome your comments on where you think another setup might have worked or would work better. I will add that most of material I used I had laying around my garage.
1.) Added a 40 gallon sprayer tank to the 2inch hitch on the rear of my ATV.
- Purchased a 40 gallon FIMCO sprayer that had the tractor mounts. I really wanted the larger tank and the boom sprayer and plan to discard the large bulky red mounting box. Given the season I needed to get this working ASAP so I haven't customized the mounting components and set the entire unit on a 2in receiver rear vehicle platform. Which actually got me pretty close to my height requirement for the sprayers. Sprayers should be around 20 inches and these are mounted around 25. The red framed box adds significant weight and I would rather mount the tank to the rear rack but I will have to work on that this winter.
2.) Added a 125 pound front mounted broadcast spreader. ( I wanted this front mounted so that I could see my spread and not have to continually be turned around)
- Mounted a Lesco Truckster 2 to the front rack
- Removed the Lesco framing, and used 1 inch conduit as the framing for the mount, drilled holes in the conduit for the mounts and then used U bolts to attach to the rack, I then cut a piece of strapping to mount the open/close lever cabling.
- Mounted the open/close lever on the extended conduit so that it was closer to the handlebars
- purchased some 30 amp battery post clamps and wired the motor so that I can attach to the battery.
**** The only other item which is not shown in the picture is to add some cardboard or a tarp to the front of your ATV so that you aren't tossing fertilizer in your engine area.
The only challenge you will face is figuring out how you will want to store the broadcast spreader in the off season. When you remove the Lesco mounting you are also removing some of the broadcast spreader protection. One solution is to just re-attach the Lesco mount in the off season.
Anyways this was my first crack at these setups. Not perfect by any means but functional.
1.) Added a 40 gallon sprayer tank to the 2inch hitch on the rear of my ATV.
- Purchased a 40 gallon FIMCO sprayer that had the tractor mounts. I really wanted the larger tank and the boom sprayer and plan to discard the large bulky red mounting box. Given the season I needed to get this working ASAP so I haven't customized the mounting components and set the entire unit on a 2in receiver rear vehicle platform. Which actually got me pretty close to my height requirement for the sprayers. Sprayers should be around 20 inches and these are mounted around 25. The red framed box adds significant weight and I would rather mount the tank to the rear rack but I will have to work on that this winter.
2.) Added a 125 pound front mounted broadcast spreader. ( I wanted this front mounted so that I could see my spread and not have to continually be turned around)
- Mounted a Lesco Truckster 2 to the front rack
- Removed the Lesco framing, and used 1 inch conduit as the framing for the mount, drilled holes in the conduit for the mounts and then used U bolts to attach to the rack, I then cut a piece of strapping to mount the open/close lever cabling.
- Mounted the open/close lever on the extended conduit so that it was closer to the handlebars
- purchased some 30 amp battery post clamps and wired the motor so that I can attach to the battery.
**** The only other item which is not shown in the picture is to add some cardboard or a tarp to the front of your ATV so that you aren't tossing fertilizer in your engine area.
The only challenge you will face is figuring out how you will want to store the broadcast spreader in the off season. When you remove the Lesco mounting you are also removing some of the broadcast spreader protection. One solution is to just re-attach the Lesco mount in the off season.
Anyways this was my first crack at these setups. Not perfect by any means but functional.
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