Final Boom Assembly Instructions

Download PDF

Please use the following instructions to aid in the final assembly of your Weed Zapper boom.
NOTE: Please see our boom installation video by going to our website www.theweedzapper.com
and selecting the installation videos. Please select “Free support” then “Instructional videos”
and finally “Installation videos”.

1. With the boom hooked to the tractor, use hydraulics to slowly lower boom wings to field (down) position.
2. Place the “Insulator Arms” in front of the boom and remove banding that secures them together.
3. Make note of the colored Zip-ties on both the “Insulator Arms” and the ends of the “Wing Transfer Wires” that are wrapped around the pockets on the boom.
4. We recommend laying the “Insulator Arms” with colored Zip-ties in front of the pockets with matching colored Zipties. This will ensure the correct arms are placed in the correct location as there are 2 different lengths (57” & 59”)
   arms.
5. There will be 2 insulator arms on all booms (20′, 30’ and 40’) without colored Zip-ties. These will have “DANGER High Voltage” stickers located on 1 side of them. This should ALWAYS face Outwards or away from the center of the boom.
6. Remove 5/8” bolts from boom pockets.
7. Insert “Insulator Arms” into the steel mounting pockets. Slide beside the spacer plate toward the inside of the pocket and align the holes.
8. If you did not slide the pocket spacer plate alongside the “Insulator Arm” in the previous step, do so now and align with the hole in the arm and pocket. (This may also be done while sliding arm into pocket.)
9. Install 5/8” bolts and tighten until threads are into ny-lock portion of nuts.
10. Locate 2 small holes approximately 8” inward from outside end of “Insulator Arm” (The end closest to the front copper HV electrode). Install the “Small Black Angle Mounts” using the screws that were provided and these holes.
    The long VERTICAL side with LARGE hole should go towards the tractor or away from the crop.
11. Attach each end of flexible conduit to “Small Black Angle Bracket”.
12. Adjust the cable length by sliding the “Hv Wing Transfer Cable” through the conduit so that it reaches the front electrode. These will be connected later during the startup sequence.
13. Upon request by the customer, aluminum wedges will be provided for additional leveling of the insulator arms. If they are ordered, install them between the bottom of the insulator arm & bottom of pocket to aid in leveling of insulator arms. These are not necessary for usage of the machine but can be used in obtaining a perfectly uniform insulator arm height. If they are used, install a self-drilling screw through a hole in the aluminum wedge into the bottom of the insulator arm to hold wedges in place.
14. Install large insulators on the “Insulator Stems” located on the bottom of the “Insulator Arms”. Make sure the black shear rings, located on the bottom of the insulators are facing the tractor or away from the crop.
15. Open the insulators by loosening the black bolts and sliding the insulators open about 2”.
16. Starting with the center, slide copper electrodes through the insulators and overlap them at the hinge points by a total of 2” or 1” of each pipe.
17. Route the “HV Transfer Cable” through the ring that is welded to the boom and across the top of the center right insulator arm. It can be Zip-Tied to the right “Wing Transfer Cable” on top of the insulator arm.
18. Using 1 of the copper clamps that was provided, fasten the boom end of the “HV Transfer Cable” to the “Center Electrode”.