Calibrating a walking boom sprayer

Precision application of fertilizers, pesticides and other products to small areas is frequently addressed through the use of a walking boom sprayer, such as a Spray Hawk. To get the most out of this piece of equipment, proper calibration is essential.

Maintaining constant walking speeds sounds simple but becomes difficult in practice. When conducting research or when training spray techs, we use a stopwatch and a metronome. We recently purchased a few Seiko DM-50 metronomes — they are useful because…