Idiots guide to sowing with a one pass

Dukes Fit · Mar 6, 2024

Farmer Fin said:
Tramline with the drill and electric metering. It’s just going to be remembering the sequences at the ins and the outs.

Until you get used to dropping in at the right time you could use the pre start on the drill when setting off.

I back off the rate a little bit on the 5th endrig run too to make up for the overlap.

Depending on how your tramline sequencing triggers you definitely have to keep an eye on it as sometimes it can advance an extra one. On endrigs I freeze the advance until I'm on run 4 then tramline manually. If you're anything like me you'll be telling yourself over and over to switch it off, then at some point forget and tramline 50m on your 5th round

Dukes Fit · Mar 6, 2024

Chae1 said:
The outside runs to sow anyway.

So how's it going to be more time consuming?

I meant if you're just mapping the boundary without sowing

Chae1 · Mar 6, 2024

Dukes Fit said:
I meant if you're just mapping the boundary without sowing

A friend has a new Amazone trailed drill with section control and he said you couldn't sow anything with it while mapping boundary!

Not sure if he's got it sorted so he can.

Dukes Fit · Mar 6, 2024

Chae1 said:
A friend has a new Amazone trailed drill with section control and he said you couldn't sow anything with it while mapping boundary!

Not sure if he's got it sorted so he can.

I probably couldn't either. The person breaking in in front of me would wipe out my mark/rip up what I've sowed

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My ploughing is equally as bad as my sowing so there's usually a bit of work to do on the endrigs and corners before I come along and make another rid up for the rest of the year

davidroberts30 · Mar 7, 2024

Hesstondriver said:
silly question alert

Combi drilling - headlands first or last ?

Last

davidroberts30 · Mar 7, 2024

Chae1 said:
I do the outside then drill, run 6 on the inside as a mark to lift in/out at. Then when doing headlands drill run 2 on outside. Then move to inside. Run 5. That way you can have @Slim shady corners. Backing in each time.

No wheel marks left when you leave field.Drill centre first then just continually round and round. Let's your headland tramline be exactly off fence, so sprayer booms not hitting it. Throw up a AB line for first run on inside with some overlap to take out wobbly bits on headland pass.

This is what I try to do
Once round hedge to map boundary.
Work middles then start on run 7headland(3mdrill,21sprayer)
Work out to gate

Chae1 · Mar 7, 2024

Dukes Fit said:
I probably couldn't either. The person breaking in in front of me would wipe out my mark/rip up what I've sowed .

My ploughing is equally as bad as my sowing so there's usually a bit of work to do on the endrigs and corners before I come along and make another rid up for the rest of the year

Yeah mine needs levelled first too!

The real pros have GPS on the leveller! They put in the scratch to show you where to lift and mark field out for drill.

Don't think we'll ever be that advanced.

davidroberts30 · Mar 7, 2024

Farmer Fin said:
Do you go round the boundary first to know where your tramline will be? I can set an inner boundary on the gps which will beep when passing. Haven’t tried it yet so not sure how good it will be.

That's what I do

davidroberts30 · Mar 7, 2024

Farmer Fin said:
Tramline with the drill and electric metering. It’s just going to be remembering the sequences at the ins and the outs.

Hms

cosmagedon · Mar 7, 2024

If your putting in tramlines especially when starting out, on the tramline pass back right up to the hedge/fence and drive right up on the opposite side. That way if you've ever cocked up or managed to loose the sequence you can look back and work it out to double check.

Also if your leaving the field try to either have you last line as a tramline or your next so your starting fresh. And always put a bout marker out on your last run before leaving the field unfinished if your using GPS.

Will 1594 · Mar 7, 2024

If your cultivator man has done his job right ,or you know what you doing ,you just look out of window ,dont need a f in gps line ,or can not the seat warmers go by eye

GrantMo · Mar 7, 2024

Will 1594 said:
If your cultivator man has done his job right ,or you know what you doing ,you just look out of window ,dont need a f in gps line ,or can not the seat warmers go by eye

There you go then @Farmer Fin switch off the GPS, just eyeball it and hope for the best
Don’t think my ins and outs would look very great, but at least I wouldn’t be a seat warmer

Dukes Fit · Mar 7, 2024

Will 1594 said:
If your cultivator man has done his job right ,or you know what you doing ,you just look out of window ,dont need a f in gps line ,or can not the seat warmers go by eye

The GPS boys use less seed and fert. If he's got it, use it to it's full potential

e3120 · Mar 7, 2024

Take a (mental) note of the run number of the GPS for the first tramline. If it's, say, 4, and you want a tramline every 6th pass, then you should expect them to come out on run numbers that are a multiples of 6, less 2 i.e. 4, 10, 16 etc. Helps keep the f-up fairy at bay.

fermerboy · Mar 8, 2024

e3120 said:
Take a (mental) note of the run number of the GPS for the first tramline. If it's, say, 4, and you want a tramline every 6th pass, then you should expect them to come out on run numbers that are a multiples of 6, less 2 i.e. 4, 10, 16 etc. Helps keep the f-up fairy at bay.

My Trimble gps shows you the tramline passes.
When you are on the first tramline you tell it say every 6 or 8 passes and it shows on the screen. Just a handy reminder to check the drill is doing its thing right.

hoyboy · Mar 8, 2024

If you don't need to level the endings, instead of doing 4 passes with the harrow in the ground, put both your markers down, run with one marker to the fence. Now you're marking 8m in one pass instead of 4, saves a bit of time. If it's straight onto ploughing I'd level the ends with 4 runs with the harrow down anyway

Chae1 · Mar 8, 2024

Just mark the tramlines on the GPS. It then puts the runs you should be tramlining to a different colour. Easy to keep track of if swap operators or change fields .

Handy when spraying or top dressing.as tractor runs exactly in tramlines.

Farmer Fin · Mar 8, 2024

Chae1 said:
Just mark the tramlines on the GPS. It then puts the runs you should be tramlining to a different colour. Easy to keep track of if swap operators or change fields .

Handy when spraying or top dressing.as tractor runs exactly in tramlines.View attachment 1168657

Is that you started sowing?

Chae1 · Mar 8, 2024

Farmer Fin said:
Is that you started sowing?

Nah. Just been playing with it to try and work out how it works.

e3120 · Mar 8, 2024

fermerboy said:
My Trimble gps shows you the tramline passes.
When you are on the first tramline you tell it say every 6 or 8 passes and it shows on the screen. Just a handy reminder to check the drill is doing its thing right.

Mine is an FM750, so needs a post-it on the window.

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