Rangepoint

[DTR5]

Hi guys,
Just a quick one to anyone using rangepoint. It has 15cm accuracy so drilling with a 6m drill does anyone put in a slightly smaller swarth width? Or put in 6m swarth width as same as implement width.

 

[Shutesy]

I use 5.98m. Better to be a fraction under I think than a consistent bit over and leave a lovely straight gap. Might depend what your drill is and whether it pulls left or right at all.

 

[DTR5]

I use 5.98m. Better to be a fraction under I think than a consistent bit over and leave a lovely straight gap. Might depend what your drill is and whether it pulls left or right at all.

Thanks for the reply Shutsey we’ve got a kv ts tine drill. This is our 1st venture into guidance, local dealer said try at 5.9 but that seemed to be to much to me.

 

[Farma Parma]

2years drilling with Rangepoint RTX & it runs within 3-4cm pass to pass so if you believe what its telling me thats pretty good id say.

3m combi drill & set to just under 3m 2.98m i think
Drill trys to pull slightly one way more than the other so i have a 4cm offset in & cant remember which way.

 

[DTR5]

2years drilling with Rangepoint RTX & it runs within 3-4cm pass to pass so if you believe what its telling me thats pretty good id say.

3m combi drill & set to just under 3m 2.98m i think
Drill trys to pull slightly one way more than the other so i have a 4cm offset in & cant remember which way.

Thanks for reply Farma Parma, seems like .98 is the way to go. ?

 

[Northern farmer]

... so if you believe what its telling me thats pretty good id say...

I don't like this but I probably misunderstood what you tried to say. Don't want to enter the repeating discussion about the path error as seen by the screen itself. I assume you mean something else.

 

[Farma Parma]

Thanks for reply Farma Parma, seems like .98 is the way to go. ?

Id say most drills if you measured from outer coulters to the other side will sit in from the claimed drills overall width
just allow for this a little.
Because when you turn around that slight overlap is what your machine should be aiming for to bring things into line

 

[Farma Parma]

I don't like this but I probably misunderstood what you tried to say. Don't want to enter the repeating discussion about the path error as seen by the screen itself. I assume you mean something else.

Scratching my heed? eh?
AFAIK the A/B line that you then follow for all the runs back n forward across any field is the info displayed by the 0-?cm on the screen
on 500+ metre runs in longest field here seems to track within 1-4cm everytime thats what i mean.
None of this upto 15cm of whatever RTX is meant to be.
Now is this info that accurate what is being told to me ??? ive no idea but you can look with half n eye when the wheat or whatever you sow comes up & more so
when your on a tramline run & i swear on my mams life its ARROW STRAIGHT.
AFAIK running the most expensive RTK will make this no better.
Thats just my views ive not used anything else to compare.

 

[Wombat]

Scratching my heed? eh?
AFAIK the A/B line that you then follow for all the runs back n forward across any field is the info displayed buy the 0-?cm on the screen
on 500+ metre runs in longest field here seems to track within 1-4cm everytime thats what i mean.
None of this upto 15cm of whatever RTX is meant to be.
Now is this info that accurate what is being told to me ??? ive no idea but you can look with half n eye when the wheat or whatever you sow comes up & more so
when your on a tramline run & i swear on my mams life its ARROW STRAIGHT.
AFAIK running the most expensive RTK will make this no better.
Thats just my views ive not used anything else to compare.

The cross track error error (0-4cm in your case) how straight it is really shouldn’t change regardless of the signal used. The errors quoted are for how far the line drifts over time.

 

[Farma Parma]

The cross track error error (0-4cm in your case) how straight it is really shouldn’t change regardless of the signal used. The errors quoted are for how far the line drifts over time.

The A/B can move in just 15mins if your away from the field
But you just remark it. all is well again
My Views on all this Guidance is simply that its HELP in a positive way
but all operators should have been able to do whatever the job was pretty good long before hand.
Also opening bricks out or running back n forth across the field working land for instance & doing it every other width is one great benefit of
this tech even i'll admit that. This was about impossible beforehand.

 

[e3120]

First year for me drilling with rangepoint. I concur with the .98 rule (.95 for grass). My tramlines are further apart than they ever were with markers.

 

[clbarclay]

The +/- 4cm on the screen is more of an indication of how good the steering response of with the wheel motor or hydraulic valve is at making the tractor follow the gps signal, than how accurate the signal is.

Measure you drill very carefully first. Even Rangepoint will show up when a drill isn't actually quite as wide as it is nominally meant to be.

 

[Farma Parma]

First year for me drilling with rangepoint. I concur with the .98 rule (.95 for grass). My tramlines are further apart than they ever were with markers.

Your tramlines will be far far better
I run with the KV Geospreader doing all my Fert & the diff from non GPS sowing & i thought i was pretty good by the eye etc
to then using proper guidance is the spreader now does virtually ZERO overlapping.
It wasnt until i followed another mans drilling he used RTK mind that i seen the difference.