Can a side-tank really change the way you farm?
22 Aug 24 • 1m 28s

Johnny Verell has been using these side tanks on his farm for a few years now. Here is what changed for him as a result.

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00:00 Johnny Rell with Extreme Ag. We're out here today getting ready to take off our Demco tanks on this tractor here, 00:05 and we've been using Demco tanks for probably about four or five years now. The reason we're using, we need something 00:10 that helps us make less passes across the field. So for us, we put the Demco tanks on our planter tractors, we're able to haul 1200 gallons of fertilize 00:17 or herbicide depending on what we're doing because sometimes we'll put spray bars on the back of our planters and we'll spray behind the planters 00:23 so we're not having to chase the planters with the sprayer. So for us, they've been a very big part of our operation. 00:28 They're very versatile, zero maintenance, zero issues with 'em at all. I mean, like I said, these tanks are four years 00:33 old now, maybe five. We put 'em on LSW tractor sometimes this year they're on duals, uh, tractors. 00:39 And like I said, they mount all real easy takes just, you know, maybe a couple hours to put 'em on and probably takes 30 minutes to take 'em off. 00:46 So it's really not that big of a deal for us. And like I said, they've lasted four years. We even had a tractor last year get off the side of the road 00:52 and get hung up in the ditch and the tanks actually hit the ground, hit the mud, didn't break any welds, 00:56 pulled the tractor out, pulled the tanks out, had no issues at all. So as far as being rugged 01:00 and durable, I don't think there's another tank on the market like it. We go over terraces when we're planting, 01:04 so we'll plant across the field and one pass we might jump 20 terraces. So that tractor's rocking back 01:09 and forth going over those terraces at, you know, five to 8, 9, 10 miles per hour depending on how we're hitting that terrace. 01:14 And so that much weight rocking and stuff like that never had any issues at all. So for us, Demco has really changed 01:19 how we operate on our farm by being able to haul the amount of volume of liquids that we are.

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