Nice episode, Frithgar! I've only seen cages on tractors working on bogs with peat extraction in Sweden (since they ended using iron-wheels). Ridge markers are good or better than GPS for small and uneven fields if it's correctly adjusted and you drive next pass with frontwheel on the ridge and then will "erase". Also using foam markers on sprayboom ends in such cases.
We still use the side markers, because we haven't upgraded to GPS yet in any of our tractors. But a lot of the larger farmers around me take the side markers off their planters when they have GPS so that they don't have to worry about accidentally catching them on anything on the field edges, since they stick out just a little bit on the sides even when folded up. And here in the US, a lot of the tractors running duals have a slightly narrower set of tires so that they stay between the rows on the planter to reduce chance of compaction right on the seed planted. The FS duals are usually wider than the row crop tires we use here.
Of course we use ridge markers. Here in Greece (and I bet in many other countries) GPS is unheard and most people use small, old and fully mechanical machines for their farms and it works quite well for everyone. No need for sophisticated things that are unreliable and expensive to repair.
GPS isn't really unreliable at least in the US. From what I gather from watching a farmer with a UA-cam channel who farms about 90 miles/ 145 km from me it's a super useful tool. They don't have it on everything. It looks like they have about 3 units that they swap from tractor to harvester as the seasons change. They use it along with computers, satellite and drone images to track yield, soil compaction, fertilizing, water saturation etc. I'll link his channel incase you want to take a look at what goes on in Minnesota. ua-cam.com/video/IAopbTBIBCI/v-deo.html
@@douglascampbell9809 I agree with you, but don't forget that in the US, both fields and machinery are very large and such technologies are needed. The way farming works is quite different, too.
Nice episode, Frithgar! I've only seen cages on tractors working on bogs with peat extraction in Sweden (since they ended using iron-wheels). Ridge markers are good or better than GPS for small and uneven fields if it's correctly adjusted and you drive next pass with frontwheel on the ridge and then will "erase". Also using foam markers on sprayboom ends in such cases.
Lol the equipment I use was before markers. We use a fence post on the other end of the field.
We still use the side markers, because we haven't upgraded to GPS yet in any of our tractors. But a lot of the larger farmers around me take the side markers off their planters when they have GPS so that they don't have to worry about accidentally catching them on anything on the field edges, since they stick out just a little bit on the sides even when folded up. And here in the US, a lot of the tractors running duals have a slightly narrower set of tires so that they stay between the rows on the planter to reduce chance of compaction right on the seed planted. The FS duals are usually wider than the row crop tires we use here.
Of course we use ridge markers. Here in Greece (and I bet in many other countries) GPS is unheard and most people use small, old and fully mechanical machines for their farms and it works quite well for everyone. No need for sophisticated things that are unreliable and expensive to repair.
GPS isn't really unreliable at least in the US. From what I gather from watching a farmer with a UA-cam channel who farms about 90 miles/ 145 km from me it's a super useful tool. They don't have it on everything. It looks like they have about 3 units that they swap from tractor to harvester as the seasons change.
They use it along with computers, satellite and drone images to track yield, soil compaction, fertilizing, water saturation etc. I'll link his channel incase you want to take a look at what goes on in Minnesota.
ua-cam.com/video/IAopbTBIBCI/v-deo.html
@@douglascampbell9809 I agree with you, but don't forget that in the US, both fields and machinery are very large and such technologies are needed. The way farming works is quite different, too.
The farm i work on use both gps and marker incase the gpsline move a bit u notis
When are you going to live stream???
Tonight!
What is the song called We are hero's tonight we Will fly in the sky??
All the songs I use in the time lapses are listed in the description of each video with links to the originals