What's the laziest life hack you've invented using GPS?

[Feldspar]

Haven't done this yet, but I'm going to: save all the farm tracks as curved guidance lines on RTK so I can take in the view and abrogate my steering wheel supervision duties.

As per the title, anyone got any inventive GPS tricks?

@Robt?

 

[Feldspar]

If I try really hard I can save a decent line so that it avoid all the annoying bumps in the tracks that irritate me when corn carting. Or I could just go out with some rubble and fill them in. Old school, nuskool.

 

[Weare Cham]

I don't have autosteer but could you get it to steer home from the pub?

 

[Feldspar]

I don't have autosteer but could you get it to steer home from the pub?

You'd need an open route with no trees under which the signal would drop out. A reliable lack of local policing would also help.

 

[milkloss]

You'd need an open route with no trees under which the signal would drop out. A reliable lack of local policing would also help.

So I was going to ask. What happens when you have wooded boundaries? I guess you find the ditch, tree or suddenly lurch across the field?

 

[Feldspar]

So I was going to ask. What happens when you have wooded boundaries? I guess you find the ditch, tree or suddenly lurch across the field?

In the life of this lazy steering wheel attendant you would only farm the fields which were not encumbered by such nuisances.

In reality, if we're being serious about this (which I am!) you would place markers saved near particularly troublesome trees / signal black spots to sound an audible alarm to prompt you to wake up, take control of the steering wheel for that hazardous patch, and then once past reengage auto-steer and get back to Egyptian PT.

Generally though, now we have our own RTK mast close by, the areas where the signal drops out is pretty small.

 

[Feldspar]

I think a definite contender for this prize is @Clive considering putting Greenstar on his John Deere ride on mower because his OCD couldn't tolerate the imperfectly straight lines on his lawn.

 

[Robt]

James, you need to buy some cattle to keep you busy!
I take it you haven't discovered that little chip we have in your car . The one that together with geo fencing, it flashes up an alarm on the x30 so the others know when you are under 2000m away?

I find a lot use it for hedge cutting!
We had a we'll know car manufacture contact is recently with a neat idea.....

 

[General-Lee]

Guessing it's raining again!!

 

[Feldspar]

James, you need to buy some cattle to keep you busy!
I take it you haven't discovered that little chip we have in your car . The one that together with geo fencing, it flashes up an alarm on the x30 so the others know when you are under 2000m away?

I find a lot use it for hedge cutting!
We had a we'll know car manufacture contact is recently with a neat idea.....

Ah yes, hedge-cutting is another one I had thought of. Just can't quite justify an extra unit on the hedge-cutter tractor, which is rather old anyway.

Car manufacturer is intriguing.

 

[Feldspar]

Guessing it's raining again!!

Tell me about it! Wandering round trials sites today in getting decidedly damp.