Vaderstad rapid gps settings?

[vinnie123]

Evening all, drilling with a 4m vaderstad rapid with the system discs - have read in other threads about offset etc but still not quite got it right yet.

What settings are others using? Ground is worked and rolled and lightly using front discs

Tia

 

[Boysground]

Get a tape out, mine seems to be best at 3cm but I have had it set at more.

happy to hear any more advice though

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[vinnie123]

Have had a go with these settings as but not 100% convinced

 

[vinnie123]

Had the tape measure out and outside coulter to outside coulter is 398cm are others running at this or go for 4m

 

[copse]

Get a tape out, mine seems to be best at 3cm but I have had it set at more.

happy to hear any more advice though

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Got no offset on mine and seem okay, just have width set for 3.95 m and when I occasionally put markers out it seems bang on . Don’t use gps when drilling on the side of a hill though as usually have to drive a foot above marker lines to not miss any.

 

[vinnie123]

@Vernon

 

[Boysground]

Got no offset on mine and seem okay, just have width set for 3.95 m and when I occasionally put markers out it seems bang on . Don’t use gps when drilling on the side of a hill though as usually have to drive a foot above marker lines to not miss any.

What signal? And are you putting tramlines in. I’m on Rtk and tramlines on most fields.
So I stick with 4m to get the tramline in the right spot. I did think that with the drill being exactly 4m wide the outside coulters would run in the same lines and everything would look ok but that didn’t work. I’m considering turning the tramlines off all the time.

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[Chae1]

Had the tape measure out and outside coulter to outside coulter is 398cm are others running at this or go for 4m

You need to measure it in work. Take into account the gap between coulters too for full working width obviously.

Drive down field and measure distance from outside Coulter. Turn round and come back again and measure distance from same point again. Should be exactly the same. If not need to program offset.

My Amazone combi drill needs a offset in to get it right. After saying this probably made a cock of my autumn drilling. Nothing through the ground yet.

 

[Flatlander]

My fields are dead flat and not a single tree to go around so a signal shouldn’t be comprised but when drilling early morning when I start it will line up perfect by mid afternoon I will have had to offset the drill by 10 inches to the left but after 6 ish it’s back to no offset then by ten or so ive got to start adding the offset to the right. Waas signal.

 

[Boysground]

My fields are dead flat and not a single tree to go around so a signal shouldn’t be comprised but when drilling early morning when I start it will line up perfect by mid afternoon I will have had to offset the drill by 10 inches to the left but after 6 ish it’s back to no offset then by ten or so ive got to start adding the offset to the right. Waas signal.

That’s the signal moving slightly during the day. Vaderstad drills have a tendency to not pull exactly straight behind the tractor.

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[GlennW]

I used to run with a working width of 3.96m and a 3.5cm offset to the right. In consistent soil this would put the outside coulter back on top of itself.
If the soil varied it would drift in and out fractionally as the soil changed

 

[An Gof]

Got no offset on mine and seem okay, just have width set for 3.95 m and when I occasionally put markers out it seems bang on . Don’t use gps when drilling on the side of a hill though as usually have to drive a foot above marker lines to not miss any.

I use GPS drilling across side of a hill with my Vaddy all the time. It’s absolutely brilliant at correcting the drill drift, far better than I could ever do. That’s with Greenstar on SF1 as well.

 

[copse]

I use GPS drilling across side of a hill with my Vaddy all the time. It’s absolutely brilliant at correcting the drill drift, far better than I could ever do. That’s with Greenstar on SF1 as well.

How do you get it right?

 

[An Gof]

The gps and auto steer gets it right I just sit there

 

[Andy12345]

.04 overlap here so a drilling width of 3.96 Metres, no offset and on RP RTX it seems to do a grand job

You can just make out the drill bouts in the picture..... good enough for me and better than I can do with a marker!

 

[Si85]

When I first started use drill on particular tractor 5 yrs ago use to use it at 8m width and 0.015 off set now same tractor it’s set at 8m and 0.05 off set to left