What is this machine?
Mar 20, 2020 12:33:17 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
It is a livestock sprayer. We had a newer version that had rubber tires and was set up a little differently. The spray went in the tank and the engine/pump created the pressure to spray the liquid on the animals.
Swede
Mar 20, 2020 12:57:27 #
Mar 20, 2020 13:01:37 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
Because it's a farm item, probably a fruit sprayer or watering device for a garden or orchard perhaps.
Mar 20, 2020 13:31:23 #
Mar 20, 2020 14:16:17 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
Actually this is a gas powered crop sprayer fore orchards.
Mar 20, 2020 15:03:42 #
I believe it is a spray rig--possibly for an orchard.
The tank would hold the chemical solution.
The tank would hold the chemical solution.
Mar 20, 2020 15:32:31 #
Mar 20, 2020 16:05:44 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
Chuckwal wrote:
Portable water pump and sprayer
by the way great photo
chuck
by the way great photo
chuck
Thanks for compliment - The area is surrounded by a high chain link fence so I used a point and shoot with lens small enough to fit between the links. Limited angles available from which to shoot. Would love to walk around the farm equipment and see the inside of the barn.
Mar 20, 2020 18:43:34 #
I believe it’s a spray rig, used in orchards.
Newer ones (but still old by today’s standards) were much larger and had a seat on top for a person to hold the spray nozzle and spray trees as it was pulled by a tractor through the orchard
Newer ones (but still old by today’s standards) were much larger and had a seat on top for a person to hold the spray nozzle and spray trees as it was pulled by a tractor through the orchard
Mar 20, 2020 18:51:34 #
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Mar 20, 2020 23:21:15 #
alliebess wrote:
This old farm machine sits on the lawn beside an old stone barn in Valley Forge National Historical Park. It's behind a chain link fence so can't get many angles.
I was born and raised on a farm and we had a sprayer almost the very same as this. We used it to spray the fruit trees in our orchards .... it is a sprayer to spray the toxins to fight the bugs and diseases that attack fruits and veggies
Mar 21, 2020 00:59:18 #
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