Drilling and not putting in tramlines but adding autosteer to the sprayer?

[JCfarmer]

I know a few of you already do this, do you have much trouble with green grains come harvest?
Do you use egnos or a more accurate signal?
I will have an autopilot steering system which will be available off a tractor which is being sold and a new 5m drill but on 24m tramlines so rather than drill at 4.8m and alter coulters I am tempted to stick with 5m.
I could extend the sprayer but not ideal for the fert spinner.

 

[Barleymow]

Didn't have any trouble with broadcast crops this year

 

[HarryB97]

Never put tramlines in and have no issues at all just makes the whole job much easier! My tractor is on 30cm gps accuracy and it's very good, be it mowing or drilling it's all spot on.

 

[Dalos]

So how do you actually spray the tramlines in , just a quad bike sprayer with 2 nozzles behind the tractor wheels or another way ?

 

[B'o'B]

I know a few of you already do this, do you have much trouble with green grains come harvest?
Do you use egnos or a more accurate signal?
I will have an autopilot steering system which will be available off a tractor which is being sold and a new 5m drill but on 24m tramlines so rather than drill at 4.8m and alter coulters I am tempted to stick with 5m.
I could extend the sprayer but not ideal for the fert spinner.

No bother with green grains here, but you do want to be on a significantly better correction than EGNOS

 

[B'o'B]

So how do you actually spray the tramlines in , just a quad bike sprayer with 2 nozzles behind the tractor wheels or another way ?

Just drive over the crop.

 

[jack6480]

you need RTK accuracy for drilling. Forget about tramlining every year use your old tramlines.

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[Lofty1984]

What’s the seed saving of putting tramlines in ?

 

[tw15]

So how do you actually spray the tramlines in , just a quad bike sprayer with 2 nozzles behind the tractor wheels or another way ?

I just use a trimble 500 with easy steer set at 23.885 m and works a treat on liquid fert so if it was out you soon see . never spray the tramlines just save the fields and after a couple of passes the tramlines are easy to see . no problem with greens .

 

[haybob]

I noticed my contractors claas knife doesn't seem to cut the short green heads in tramlines. Took on some land which was already cropped but with wrong sized tramlines. Wasn't any trouble. Carried the sprayer better.

 

[Bury the Trash]

yea saves yer soil a bit.

 

[Wuffler]

What’s the seed saving of putting tramlines in ?

Zero! The 'saved' seed is re-directed down the rest of the non blanked off spouts.

 

[Lofty1984]

Zero! The 'saved' seed is re-directed down the rest of the non blanked off spouts.

 

[JCfarmer]

Zero! The 'saved' seed is re-directed down the rest of the non blanked off spouts.

Not true on a Kuhn drill, its re-directed back into the tank

 

[JCfarmer]

No bother with green grains here, but you do want to be on a significantly better correction than EGNOS

For the time being I drill on rangepoint and would only spray on rangepoint if I did go ahead

 

[Longneck]

Rangepoint is fine, I’ve been doing it the last 5 years.
You do get a few greens some years, depends on how late you run through with the last pass on the sprayer.
The first year I rigged a little sprayer up to spray out the tramlines but it wasn’t worth it.
As said before it helps the sprayer travel in wetter times and it definitely takes a lot of the stress out of drilling.

 

[melted welly]

Think on 24m it’s about 3% from memory. But my memory isn’t great…

 

[Wuffler]

Not true on a Kuhn drill, its re-directed back into the tank

Really?! Maybe on your Kuhn drill, sadly my Kuhn drill isn't that sophisticated!

 

[Clive]

I know a few of you already do this, do you have much trouble with green grains come harvest?
Do you use egnos or a more accurate signal?
I will have an autopilot steering system which will be available off a tractor which is being sold and a new 5m drill but on 24m tramlines so rather than drill at 4.8m and alter coulters I am tempted to stick with 5m.
I could extend the sprayer but not ideal for the fert spinner.

well over a decade since we put a tramline in with a drill, fixed tramlines put in with the sprayer

never had a problem at harvest, can’t imagine why you would tramline with a drill if you can with the sprayer


we rarely use pre harvest glyphosate as well

 

[Hard Graft]

You need accurate gps on the sprayer ideally
Did not have an rtk subscription correction last year on the case sp3000 and on plough sown crops was through then 3 times on auto steer as could not see my previous wheel marks but then had to resort to manually steering