Tramlines?? yes or no

[warksfarmer]

Are your headlands mapped on RTK? Not so easy without that on a 36m trailed sprayer here.

Not mapped but we could as we’ve got RTK on the tractor and we are 36m. Don’t have any issues driving that as your only watching 18m for headland work.

 

[rob1]

Are your headlands mapped on RTK? Not so easy without that on a 36m trailed sprayer here.

My system is very high tech, bit of string with a heavy nut on the end of the boom so I can see it at the edge of the drilling

 

[snarling bee]

'Tramlines' are not out of date. Putting them in with the drill by not seeding some rows might be. As long as nobody sprays out the 'greens' prior to harvest by blanket spraying the whole field with glyphosate. A practice encouraged by a certain combine manufacturer and completely unnecessary.

 

[Clive]

Are your headlands mapped on RTK? Not so easy without that on a 36m trailed sprayer here.

I seriously wouldn't fancy spraying a headland with a 36m sprayer without curved track auto-steer running ! I think you would get though a lot of boom ends or have some wide gaps to hedges

we just shunt the drill headland track to 18m on the x30, press go and autosteer the headland tramline inch perfect

 

[Clive]

'Tramlines' are not out of date. Putting them in with the drill by not seeding some rows might be. As long as nobody sprays out the 'greens' prior to harvest by blanket spraying the whole field with glyphosate. A practice encouraged by a certain combine manufacturer and completely unnecessary.

I recall @Elmstead (RIP) saying that we should run in a different place each pass and not have them at all - there was some sound logic in what he said and it was what he did at scale in eastern Europe

 

[Clive]

Fascinating hearing how your kit works . Ignoring scenarios such as contracting the work out etc at what farmed area would you suggest your system becomes viable? Whilst I can see the undoubted advantages of it it seems like half a lifetime away with our 400 acres of cereals and older kit, maybe I'm not being ambitious enough or seeing the wider picture though?

As @SilliamWhale posted I think its possible at almost any scale if you equip accordingly, GPS and VRA equipment was around 20 years ago now so must be fairly affordable secondhand these days

 

[Brisel]

My system is very high tech, bit of string with a heavy nut on the end of the boom so I can see it at the edge of the drilling

You need to get with the times mate - We've progressed to long cable ties

 

[Steevo]

You need to get with the times mate - We've progressed to long cable ties

Why cable ties?

My boom springs are 50cm....assumed everyone else’s were too. Seems the most logical marker.

 

[Brisel]

Why cable ties?

My boom springs are 50cm....assumed everyone else’s were too. Seems the most logical marker.

I don't want boom springs on the tips or they always be tripping them back. Chafer's supplied spring skids are 35 cm long & sit further in towards the inner end of the outer section.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Anyone got a good idea for a cheap boom skid? I seem to snap a couple each year and find Knight ones are about £50 which is probably £40 more than they should be

 

[rob1]

You need to get with the times mate - We've progressed to long cable ties

Thats fine for you big rich farmers us peasants are environmentally friendly and rcycle twine

 

[Clive]

Anyone got a good idea for a cheap boom skid? I seem to snap a couple each year and find Knight ones are about £50 which is probably £40 more than they should be

the amazone ones are very good - we used to run them on our Bateman

 

[nelson]

so what do you all do about the greens unripe corn in the tramlines then come harvest or do you all throw roundup about

 

[Brisel]

so what do you all do about the greens unripe corn in the tramlines then come harvest or do you all throw roundup about

Cheaper to just drive a tractor along the tramlines to squash them down. I've never found greens to be any problem. On 12m tramlines they might be!

 

[B'o'B]

so what do you all do about the greens unripe corn in the tramlines then come harvest or do you all throw roundup about

I don’t find I have them.

 

[Badshot]

so what do you all do about the greens unripe corn in the tramlines then come harvest or do you all throw roundup about

If there is any green there it's very quickly absorbed into the rest of the dry grain, just have good store management and keep it ventilated.
Or as Brisel says, just drive up the tramlines and run it down if it's bothering you.
No roundup required.

 

[Clive]

so what do you all do about the greens unripe corn in the tramlines then come harvest or do you all throw roundup about

Never a problem yet, we don’t often use any glyphosate pre harvest

 

[wuddy]

Are your headlands mapped on RTK? Not so easy without that on a 36m trailed sprayer here.

Ours are. RTK on sp sprayer and fert tractor, if nothing else it’s one less time round every field with the drill as don’t need the half width to get it to tramline in the right place!

 

[nelson]

i think i will stick to my tramlines

 

[Chae1]

Fascinating hearing how your kit works . Ignoring scenarios such as contracting the work out etc at what farmed area would you suggest your system becomes viable? Whilst I can see the undoubted advantages of it it seems like half a lifetime away with our 400 acres of cereals and older kit, maybe I'm not being ambitious enough or seeing the wider picture though?

Obviously a hobby farmer like me. Not a businessman.