Sprayer · CS-560 · Boom Application, Drift-Reduction Nozzles

EVERY ACRE —
ONE UNIFORM PASS

Name: Sprayer CS-560
Brand: Canadian Shield
SKU: CS-560

Full-width boom, drift-reduction nozzles, a metered rate held across the pass. The broadcast tool for the uniform job.

Meter · Pressure · Atomize · Log

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Patent pending Radio and GNSS permitted — civil work machine

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Major subsystems inherited by the Spot Sprayer CS-561

Machines, one lineage — broadcast and targeted

Dock standard (CS-700) across the application family

Products, concentrations or mixes specified by the platform

What It Is

The Broadcast Tool.
Full Width, Every Time.

The Sprayer is Canadian Shield's uniform-coverage boom applicator: an uncrewed airframe carrying a tank, a metering pump and a full-width boom fitted with drift-reduction nozzles, flown at a held height and speed so the rate applied per acre stays constant across the whole pass. Where the job is uniform — the field, not a fraction of it, needs the product — this is the tool.

It is also the platform underneath its own targeted sibling. The Spot Sprayer CS-561 adds a forward sensor and an individually-valved boom to this same airframe, tank, pump and flight-control lineage — so the engineering and manufacturing investment made here pays twice: once as the broadcast tool doing the uniform job, and again as the chassis a second machine builds on. Six of ten major subsystems on the targeted variant are inherited directly from this one.

Drift is the governing risk on any boom sprayer, and the design treats it as the central engineering problem, not an afterthought: drift-reduction nozzle geometry, a held boom height, and a metering system that keeps rate constant regardless of ground-speed variation, so the operator's coverage record matches what the label calls for.

The Coverage Argument

Uniform pressure isn't a detail. It's the whole job.

A boom sprayer's entire value is that every square metre under the boom gets the same rate. The metering pump, the pressure regulation and the drift-reduction nozzle geometry all exist to defend that one guarantee against wind, ground speed and terrain.

Uniform rate — held across the full boom width, regardless of ground-speed variation; the pump tracks speed so litres-per-hectare stays constant.
Shared lineage — six of ten major subsystems inherited by the targeted Spot Sprayer CS-561; one airframe, tank and pump underneath two application machines.
Nothing loaded but product — product, concentration and mixing come from the operator and the registered label, never from this platform.

01 How It Works · The Meter & Boom Chain

ONE RATE, HELD ACROSS THE WHOLE BOOM

The chain behind a uniform pass is short and deliberate — there is no detection step, because the decision to treat was already made when the field was scheduled. What the chain has to hold, instead, is rate: as ground speed varies with wind and terrain, the metering pump adjusts flow so litres-per-hectare stays constant, and a pressure regulator across every open nozzle keeps droplet size — and with it, drift — inside the band the drift-reduction nozzles are built for.

Height above the crop canopy is held for the same reason pressure is: boom height sets how far a droplet falls before it either lands on target or drifts on wind. The flight controller treats terrain-following height hold as a first-order control loop, not a convenience — on a boom sprayer, altitude error is drift. The governing relationship is stated plainly: rate = k × pump_flow ÷ (v_ground × boom_width), which is exactly why the pump has to track ground speed in real time rather than run at a fixed flow.

Every actuation — boom on, boom off, rate change, pressure event — is logged against position and time, so the coverage record leaving the field is as real as the one a ground-rig operator would keep by hand, without the hand.

METER & BOOM CHAIN CS-560 · meter-and-boom chain — meter, pressurize, atomize, log

Full Specification Sheet

Every Number, Grouped for the Walk-Around.

The complete data card for the Sprayer — configuration, application and metering, navigation, safety and compliance, grouped the way a working fleet buyer compares them. Figures specific to this variant are shared-lineage values, provisional and subject to trade study; no headline drift-reduction percentage or fixed rate is asserted without its governing variables.

Sprayer CS-560 · Boom Application, Drift-Reduction Nozzles Industrial Line · Civil Work Machine · Broadcast Applicator

01Configuration & Airframe

Configuration: Uncrewed multirotor airframe — tank, metering pump and full-width boom
Role: Uniform, full-width boom application at a metered rate
Airframe, tank & pump: Shared lineage with the Spot Sprayer CS-561
Subsystem sharing: 6 of 10 major subsystems on the targeted variant inherited from this platform

02Application & Metering

Boom: Full-width, continuous nozzle line — drift-reduction geometry; nozzle count, spacing and swath width under trade study
Metering: Ground-speed-compensated pump — rate held constant per hectare
Boom pressure: Regulated constant across every open nozzle — sets droplet size, and with it, drift behavior
Height hold: Terrain/canopy-following, closed-loop — altitude error reads directly as drift risk
Governing relationship: rate = k × pump_flow ÷ (v_ground × boom_width)

03Navigation & Control

Command & telemetry: Conventional RF C2 — permitted on this line, used openly
Navigation: GNSS waypoint flight for pass-to-pass swath accuracy
Power & flight control: Dual-bus power · dual flight controllers · three GNSS receivers voting 2-of-3
Mission record: Per-pass coverage log — boom state, rate, pressure and position

04Safety & Turnaround

Safety chain: Whole-airframe parachute + SIG AT polyfoam encapsulation — low-altitude trigger authority under definition
Turnaround & dock: Dock-based refill with rinse/purge between products — shared CS-700 dock interface
Energy: Hot-swap vs fast-charge under trade study

05Compliance

Patent status: Patent pending
Line classification: Civil work platform — surface Industrial line; radio and GNSS permitted, used openly
Payload scope: Application-only carrier — no warhead, no fuze, no energetic material and no terminal-effect system, in any variant
Product & mixing: Product, concentration and mixing — the operator and the registered label, never Canadian Shield
Regulatory: Aerial application engages Transport Canada RPAS rules, PMRA and provincial applicator licensing, and the product label — no compliance is asserted on this page

The Sprayer shares its airframe, tank and pump lineage with the Spot Sprayer CS-561; figures specific to this variant are stated as shared-lineage, provisional values, subject to trade study. No fixed litres-per-hectare rate or headline drift-reduction percentage is published — applied rate is governed by ground speed, boom width and nozzle spacing, boom height above canopy, wind speed at boom height, droplet-size band and duty cycle, and a figure quoted without those attached would be meaningless.

In the Doctrine

One Airframe Family.
Two Ways to Cover a Field.

Canadian Shield's house thesis is that manufacturing is the decisive capability, and the Industrial line is where that manufacturing base earns its keep on Canadian ground. The Sprayer advances it as the platform underneath a family, not just a machine on its own.

Every subsystem proven on the Sprayer — airframe, tank, pump, flight control, safety chain, dock interface — is a subsystem the Spot Sprayer CS-561 inherits rather than re-engineers. That is sovereign manufacturing applied at the platform-family level: one shop floor, one set of tooling, two application machines built from a shared parts bin instead of two unrelated imports.

And the radio boundary runs the way it does across the whole civil line. The no-radio doctrine governs the defence, underground and tethered platforms without exception — but the Industrial line is the surface civil exception, and the Sprayer uses both radio and GNSS openly: conventional RF for command and telemetry, GNSS for pass-to-pass swath accuracy and the coverage record that leaves the field. A quarter-section is not a jammed battlefield, and we do not build for one out here.

Family Context

One boom for the whole field. One for just the weed.

Alongside the Sprayer on the Industrial roster sits its targeted sibling — same tank, same pump, same airframe, adding a forward sensor and per-nozzle valves for the job the Sprayer's full-width curtain isn't built for. Both draw on the CS-700 dock for turnaround and the same fleet-wide safety chain. Commercial structure is design intent, stated plainly: no unit has been priced, offered or sold.

In the Field

Field Plan In.
Coverage Record Out.

A Sprayer job is a loop, not a flight: the operator's field plan compiles, the machine flies the pass boundary to boundary, and what comes home is a record of exactly what rate was applied, where — illustrative of how the machine works a field, not a job record.

01 · Arrive

The Field Plan Compiles

The crew arrives with the machine, a tote of product and the dock. The field boundary, headland turns and any buffer zones compile into a flight plan. Product, rate and mixing instruction come from the operator and the registered label — never from the machine — and the no-treat areas are drawn in before the first pass.

02 · Work

The Boom Runs, the Rate Holds

The machine flies the pass at the working height and speed the plan calls for, boom open the full width, pump and pressure regulator holding rate constant as ground speed varies with wind and terrain. Every boom-on/off event, rate change and position is logged. The operator flies the plan and owns the exceptions; the machine holds the rate, and proves it did.

03 · Recover

Dock, Rinse, Record

Back at the dock the tank purges between products and the pack turns around for the next leg. The field gets its record: a boom-state and coverage log — the operator's own evidence of what rate went down, and where. What leaves is the machine, ready for the next tote and the next field; what remains is an auditable, pass-by-pass coverage record.

The Industrial Line · At a Glance

One Line. One Canon.

The Sprayer works the surface civil line — where radio and GNSS are permitted and used openly — as the broadcast half of an application family. Its targeted sibling rides the same airframe, tank and pump; the rest of the line shares the engineering canon behind every machine. Same canon, different jobs.

This machine

CS-560 · Broadcast applicator

Sprayer

Uniform, full-width boom application — a metered rate held across the pass. Cover the whole field.

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CS-561 · Targeted sibling

Spot Sprayer

The same airframe, tank and pump — with a forward sensor and per-nozzle valves for treating just the weed, not the whole field.

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CS-510 · Line anchor

Seeder

The Industrial line's anchor — a pneumatic pod launcher retuned to gentleness. Pods down, evidence back.

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CS-520 · Industrial line

Skimmer

Another machine on the line — same moulded-structure grammar and materials canon, pointed at a different job.

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The Broadcast Applicator

Some Fields Need Every Acre Covered.
This Is the Machine Built for That.

If the job is uniform coverage, full width, every time, the conversation starts with your acreage — and with the boom built to hold rate the whole pass through.

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Full Marketing Package

The Rest of the Fleet.

Every Canadian Shield platform has a brochure like this one — same depth, same status discipline, same refusal to publish a number we cannot source. Organized by family below.

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