Homemade Weed Lickers

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Folks...
Has anyone bought any of the homemade weedlickers like the ones for sale on Donedeal... this looks well made and uses similar principals to "professional" ones I saw at the ploughing...

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/machinery/1266223

tabby aspreme

Are the wick type weedlickers such as C Dax, better than the rotating ones

snowman707

wonder how long the belt would last?

Ashill5

I had a roller type before i bought a C-Dax licker last year. The C-Dax licker is a far better machine:D. You have no dripping what so ever. Where as with the roller type ,it's hard enough to keep all the carpet equally wet. especially on hilly ground where you have a lot of turning. With tha C-dax All you have to do is regulate it before you start and you don't have to worry again till you are finished.

bbam

Ashill5 wrote: »

I had a roller type before i bought a C-Dax licker last year. The C-Dax licker is a far better machine:D. You have no dripping what so ever. Where as with the roller type ,it's hard enough to keep all the carpet equally wet. especially on hilly ground where you have a lot of turning. With tha C-dax All you have to do is regulate it before you start and you don't have to worry again till you are finished.

Could I ask what sort of €€€'s the C-Dax was ??

Ashill5

I paid 1800euro 2yrs ago, but they have gone up since. I bought it in KenO'Neills in miltown (066)9767163. I had my own 75ltr tank for quad . You can get a tank to sit on top of licker though if you are pulling it with tractor. I know it will be a bit more expensive licker but far better.You should go on C-DAX website and you can see the licker and you would be able to find out where there's a dealer nearest you.

tabby aspreme

At the ploughing they were asking 2000 for the licker ,and 700 for the tank and regulator ,the latter seemed a bit expensive

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nellyg

Have a homemade weed licker here for the last few years and over the past year has broken the crossover belt about 3 times.what would this be down to?any solutions or even a different system to turn the roller?cheers

nellyg

Have a homemade weed licker here for the last few years and over the past year has broken the crossover belt about 3 times.what would this be down to?any solutions or even a different system to turn the roller?cheers

_Brian

We have a homemade and no problems with the belt.

Don't have it too tight.

You could go for a B section belt, thicker section.