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The economics of autosteer
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<blockquote data-quote="Stoxs" data-source="post: 56923" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p><em>not bad effort there john</em></p><p>Ideal conditions there to keep it straight, try doing it on a hill!</p><p>That was a mounted drill also?</p><p>trailed drill is a bit different, on a slope in a dust storm and you cant see ya mark!</p><p>At the end of the day a good operator can be even better than yours with Auto steer.</p><p>At a guess your tramlines would be about 23- 23.5 meter with that sort of overlap. fine on 75 acers, add it up on 7500 acers and you have wasted a shed load of fert and chemical and seed, let alone fuel and time on top! soon adds up to justify the cost of Auto steer. I would say to justify A good GPS system for steering you would need 1000 acers to braek even. If you take into account vari rate spreading and savings there it could come down alot more.</p><p> </p><p>A bad operator with GPS is still a bad operator, a good operator with GPS is even better and can last longer!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stoxs, post: 56923, member: 1047"] [I]not bad effort there john[/I] Ideal conditions there to keep it straight, try doing it on a hill! That was a mounted drill also? trailed drill is a bit different, on a slope in a dust storm and you cant see ya mark! At the end of the day a good operator can be even better than yours with Auto steer. At a guess your tramlines would be about 23- 23.5 meter with that sort of overlap. fine on 75 acers, add it up on 7500 acers and you have wasted a shed load of fert and chemical and seed, let alone fuel and time on top! soon adds up to justify the cost of Auto steer. I would say to justify A good GPS system for steering you would need 1000 acers to braek even. If you take into account vari rate spreading and savings there it could come down alot more. A bad operator with GPS is still a bad operator, a good operator with GPS is even better and can last longer!!! [/QUOTE]
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