Vintage Self Propelled Sprayers

[Southern]

I thought I would show these off. This is a series of sprayers popular in my area. They was used on cotton farms, and still in use. They held up during the test of time, and still going.

The John Deere 600 Hi-Cycle.

This one is the roughest shape I found.



This one is used by the Wehunts, that is behind my woods. As you can see, they upgraded it with foam markers. And in better shape.




Lastly is this one. This one looks like it was restored at some point. Also upgraded with foam markers.




I have saw some newer John Deeres, but didn't have my camera with me at that time. I'm still trying to catch one of these 600s in action. I hope to one of these days.

Just because they are old, don't mean they are not worth using.

[70ds]

That last one looks to be in really good shape. I have never seen one of those around here. The neighbor has a newer one of those three wheeled rigs. It has a cab off of a titan combine.

[treymo]

There's one of those over at Silica. It's pretty cool lookin...
Trey

[Southern]

May 8, 2011 21:16:45 GMT -5 70ds said:

That last one looks to be in really good shape. I have never seen one of those around here. The neighbor has a newer one of those three wheeled rigs. It has a cab off of a titan combine.

I saw one of those around here as well. It had a yellow top. I think it was a 6000? I didn't get pics of him. Other than John Deere, Spraya Coupe is the other main brand of SP sprayers.

I dug up some 600/600A info.
The 600 came out in 1962. And it was very popular as it exceeded sells over 500 units annually 6 times during its production run. Up into the 70s. It was real popular with the corn and cotton growers at the time. Came with booms 47 or 60 feet wide, and a 320 gallon tank. It had a nice 60 inch crop clearance. Came with a gas or diesel engine. And a 200 gallon tank to keep him going. It was replaced by the 6000 in the late 70s.

[hoss]

nice sprayers.......aka hi-boys....we have them around here for tobacco very few use them for anything else.

thanks for sharing

[steiger9330]

That's a cool sprayer. 220 spra coupes were the popular sprayer until recently. Now the Apaches are everywhere.