How do you work your fields, with regards tramlines etc,

[Pennine Ploughing]

With equipment getting bigger, and fields still mainly the same, where do you put the tramlines, ie crossways or full lengths is the question.
With all things they are never equal, the likes of the combine grain tank, will hold a different distance of travel to the capacity of the sprayer, and fertiliser spreader again will travel a different distance for a full load.
Now assume you have a 2 square mile block of land about 1250 acres with 1 combines, all in 1 field, so a blank canvas

The point is your now going to divide the 1250 acres up into smaller blocks, for easy of working, and to segregate the like of wheat, barley, rape, oats etc,
Now the system used is controlled traffic management, meaning the combine stops to empty on the headland every tank full, so how far would it travel there and back to fill 90% in a good crop to empty.
At the same time what tramline spacing would work best for the fertiliser spreader and sprayer, and capacity of both, as you don't want to end up running out at other end or halfway on a bout,
So what combination and size of combine, fertiliser spreader and sprayer would work best.
I understand different varieties of crops would mean the tank on combine may 55% and not able to do a second round, so it would be a trade off in some crops,
Just interested in hearing people's thoughts about this,

 

[Devon Gurfallo]

Are you bored?
No shooting on a Sunday

 

[Fish]

All my t-lines are now fixed, put in the same place year on year by the sprayer, many will have been fix for 10+ years.
Took me a few years to get them just where I want them after moving up to 24m from 20m around 18 years ago.

 

[bankrupt]

you don't want to end up running out at other end or halfway on a bout so what combination and size of combine, fertiliser spreader and sprayer would work best.
,

I recall when the late Joe "second best shot in all England" Nickerson turned up on "Farming Today" one morning in 1968 to announced that he'd just created the first 1000 acre field in the UK.

He hadn't got the answer to that either.

Joseph Nickerson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[yellow belly]

Fields 100 acres 800 m long fields
controll Trafic 9 m drill harvester and 27 m sprayer
unload on tramlines only needs good combine operater and radio contact with trailers


i have one field above 100 acres rest 50 acres down to 5 acres average 16 acres

One year the 100 acre field was 8 ha an hour the best of any other was 6 ha an hour 10 acre fields nearer 4 ha an hour
spraying 100 acre field 50 acres an hour with 24 m
one year same area of fields in 10 acres average used half a tonne less fertiliser same settings
the yield on the 100 acre field is often 10 % higher than field under 10 acres

imho 100 acre fields with 10 acres left uncropped for the environment would produce higher profits than 11 10 acre fields with hedges around each

 

[czechmate]

Fields 100 acres 800 m long fields
controll Trafic 9 m drill harvester and 27 m sprayer
unload on tramlines only needs good combine operater and radio contact with trailers


i have one field above 100 acres rest 50 acres down to 5 acres average 16 acres

One year the 100 acre field was 8 ha an hour the best of any other was 6 ha an hour 10 acre fields nearer 4 ha an hour
spraying 100 acre field 50 acres an hour with 24 m
one year same area of fields in 10 acres average used half a tonne less fertiliser same settings
the yield on the 100 acre field is often 10 % higher than field under 10 acres

imho 100 acre fields with 10 acres left uncropped for the environment would produce higher profits than 11 10 acre fields with hedges around each

I hate little fields with a passion. 70 ha field here, 1.2 km tramline
Mind, son was combing 20,000 acre fields in aus so we all only have allotments up here

 

[Spencer]

I hate little fields with a passion. 70 ha field here, 1.2 km tramline
Mind, son was combing 20,000 acre fields in aus so we all only have allotments up here

Be called a paddock out there surely..?

 

[czechmate]

Be called a paddock out there surely..?

Absolutely

Came back obsessed about when the combine tank was half full, as on topic, that was the system -drive away until half full, then turn and go back