Drilling tramlines

[AlphaBravoPapaSux]

I’d like to put some permanent tramlines in this autumn, but concerned about green grains as I only run on 24m. Do most folk on narrower tramlines like me still run the drill with tramlining on? Or am I overly worried about green grains and should just crack on and drill without tramlines?

 

[Mc115reed]

I’d like to put some permanent tramlines in this autumn, but concerned about green grains as I only run on 24m. Do most folk on narrower tramlines like me still run the drill with tramlining on? Or am I overly worried about green grains and should just crack on and drill without tramlines?

If youv a sprayer with GPS just bore on and ignore tramlines

 

[Andy26]

Haven't tramlined for years, on 24m, green grains never been a problem.

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[DrWazzock]

Possibly more green grains with tramlines as those next to wheelings still suffer compaction and get more moisture and nutrient so stay green longer.
Less erosion without tramlines. The plants in the wheelings hold things together and help keep weeds out. The crop flows better on the combine bed without the tramline “gaps”.

 

[Tractor Tim]

Seen a few sprayer with a single nozzle behind sprayer wheels but of round-up in a quad bike sprayer and jobs a goodun

 

[Two Tone]

Depends on how sophisticated the sat-nav is, especially with side slopes and banks.
I still drill tramlines for exactly that reason,

 

[Case290]

Havnt drilled tramlines for yrs .. is a problem in the spring when you can’t see where to drive no other issues.

 

[legin]

Haven't drilled tramlines for 5yrs now, will never go back to tramlining. Less run off and travels better.

 

[Lincsman]

Ok if you just about kill everything in the wheeling, but late green heads are a major source of ergot.

 

[Clive]

i don’t think we have put a tramline in with a drill sinse 2004

why would you these days ? i’m surprised it’s still a option on drills

 

[WillYorkshire]

No tramlines for 5 years. Green grains is not an issue. TBH I thought it would be but sons convinced me to try it. They were right, I was wrong.

 

[Hard Graft]

Won’t go back so much easier, I not seen any downside and green grains are not an issue( may be when hopefully change the row crops to a 420/85/r30 vf on the sp to drop tyre pressure in half (currently 320/85r32 at 3.2bar)
when it comes spraying I put them in to work with the shape off the hills and poles in the field

 

[e3120]

It makes a difference how many passes you expect to make in a season. P, K, S and first N comes by way of muck here, so I only do 2 x N and 3ish by fungicide.

This season, but the above reasons and low area mean I can pick my days. 11.2 & 9.5 rowcrops. Next door fields needed the cultivator following the combine round the headland.

Tramlined:

Last run where there was none:

I reckon edge effect and skinny bicycle tyres means very little yield loss. That did 4.25 ish t/ac.

 

[Jo28]

we still drill tramlines, not on headlands but up field as makes no difference to drilling whether they are in or not but i find it easier to spray after in case of gps problems its a good backstop.

 

[Pan mixer]

PX farms were going on about this the other day, he was pondering a small tank with tramline nozzles on his big sprayer so that he could roundup the wheelings when he went through with the last fungicide or whatever. Seemed a good idea but more appropriate to the 12000 acre arable farmer than the 200 acre arable farmer.

 

[Chae1]

we still drill tramlines, not on headlands but up field as makes no difference to drilling whether they are in or not but i find it easier to spray after in case of gps problems its a good backstop.

Why don't you do headland?

There my favourite to stop hitting obstacles.,

When I judge it myself I normally run too wide.

 

[alomy75]

Why don't you do headland?

There my favourite to stop hitting obstacles.,

When I judge it myself I normally run too wide.

Cos it usually means drilling a half width. I don’t do tramlines. Drill in ‘lands’ or whatever regional variation you like; sometimes put in a shift after third bout of headlands to give a wide row at 12m to put down the middle of the sprayer.

 

[Flatlander]

Never seen tramlines in Canada. Everything is gps. I use auto steer to put first pass in then drive manually as waas isn’t repeatable accurate enough. In wetter years the crop growing in the wheel tracks helps hold the ground together to lessen ruts.

 

[Jo28]

Why don't you do headland?

There my favourite to stop hitting obstacles.,

When I judge it myself I normally run too wide.

Usually because of half width. If it's a particularly bendy headland that's hard to judge I'll put it in.

 

[WillYorkshire]

Anyone had greenstar issues today? Signal dropped out on drill tractor, came back on 1m out. Did total shutdown, appeared ok. Then tractor spools all shut down. Reset, appeared ok. Then a bit later signal dropped out. When it came back on it jumped back 1m to where it was before! Usually very reliable and accurate. Bit odd.