Cutting Alfalfa on GPS

[sk389]

holy jeeze man how long is your field? looks to me almost a kilometer or more

[JoshJJA]

@sk389 ---- The fields are 0.5 miles long, which is 0.8km long. I have done fields that are a mile long, those are sure nice!!

[joe23ba]

@JoshJJA cool we have a 7 by 5 mile field

[joe23ba]

@JoshJJA we have one thats just over 3 miles but then again we own 300 thousand acres

[stonedvideos1]

this would help with women drivers!

[XHALOxxREACHX]

that is one high tech john deer you got there

[farmer3420]

You really are lazy if you need GPS to cut hay with a hydra swing Discbine. Once the field is started straight it is very easy to keep in a straight line, just follow the previous swath. GPS in agriculture was designed for seeding, tillage, and spraying applications. Maybe for self propelled swather's and Combines.

[Tullyvernon]

@farmer3420 he has the technology already in the tractor i presume for the jobs u listed, but why not use it when its there? Its an expensive setup so he is just right making the most of it!

[Enda222]

Ha 17mph no wonder its bangin

[MegaJim79]

The alfalfa is being cut to be burried into the soil for nitrogen fixing?

[hanratty450]

no radio

[l337pwnage]

That is insane. I can't believe how hi-tech the ag business is now.

[7820chris]

what is that noise?

[smithyman33]

beautiful land... driving pretty fast

[classharvester]

how fast were you going?

[freddythestandard]

i really don't see the need to use gps. Its clear where you have to cut and hay cutting is pretty easy. I mean if you were pulling a 30 ft field cult behind it would be a different story, I just don't understand why you need it for cutting hay.

[basborsboom]

@freddythestandard hes using it to make a nice video

[nevbot222]

we have a hesston diskbine and we use an agco rt 100 w/ cvt transmission. works great

[dgmafia302]

i mow with a 7810 and a john deere 17 ft disk bine that has nothing on our stuff

[Fazor24]

@dgmafia302 a 17 foot john deere diskbine? never heard of one,what model is it?

[firecatz1]

sweet i use a hesston disc bine also.....it sure cuts time done for you...i use only manual steering me and last year i cut 800 acres while working a 48hr work week i wish i would have done it all this year since hay is expensive

[3cx71]

the ez guide would be handy for splitting the field i would'nt mind one

[plowmaster1206]

what the hell is that ratcheting sound in the cab? that would drive me nuts! are you cutting on a quarter section? looks like a large field.

got enough ponies on that mower?lol

[redroadhammers07]

EZ steer thats a wheel thats mounted to the streering cullom consitanley adusting to what the read out from the reciver is sending it I made a 90 degree turn with the same model a vary fun toy to have

[plowmaster1206]

yes i know what it is and what it does, i just didnt know it made such a racket.

thanks.

[plowmaster1206]

for one thing, to make a smooth field takes work, its no problem to cut hay at 15 mph if when its seeded its pool table smooth. another thing, having auto steer adds hours to a day. spending 16 hrs in anything is very tireing.

[24Packman]

sorry ass farmers who are too lazy to drive

[entzl]

why the hell would you use gps

[nchayfarmer]

to get every inch out of the cutter why run it and not be using it

[959132049]

that's too but too fast.......jajajaja

[danred806]

Nice video. Looks like youre flying compared to my old 1209! Did you have to program an offset to the side in the 500 for the mower?

[2090case]

o and i live in British columbia canada

[2090case]

dam 14 mph thats fast whats the cut width of that and how much hp does that tractor have? we just bought a place with 100 acres hay and we have a 110 hp case 2090 so how fast could we go and wats a good size mower for that kind of acreage?

[JoshJJA]

Alberta, Canada.

Was at 10mph near the beginning of the video, mostly was at 14mph. Have cut at 17mph with that combination before.

Won't be doing any of that anymore, now cut with a SP machine. 3 feet wider but top speed is only 14mph.

[forsytje101]

so ur telling me you dont even gota touch the wheel ?

[JoshJJA]

Lol, that' is correct.

Well, you have manually turn around on the headlands to start the new pass at the beginning/end of the field..... but for the cutting periods, no, you don't have to touch the wheel.

[dairyfarmer83]

Is that GPS a 250 or 500 model? Thinking of doing the same, thanks!

[JoshJJA]

It is the 500 model running on WAAS. The 250 would do the exact same job, just doesn't have the potential to go to higher accuracy.

[dairyfarmer83]

Thanks for the information.

[jburrows2009]

dang, that would would have been some great hay if it wasnt full of weeds

[JoshJJA]

I know! The alfalfa actually caught really well, but as it was a new seeding.......

Since it was an alfalfa/timothy mix for beef cows, it couldn't be sprayed.

We made it into silage, so it actually turned out well.

The regrowth was beautiful!

[92208330]

How do you like the trimble system??? You running RTK??? Our farm is looking into the systems.. JD is little expensive when compared to outback and trimble etc. Please let me know when you get a chance

[JoshJJA]

I have so far been quite impressed with the Trimble. No, not running RTK. For what I plan to use it for (haying and non-row-crop field work), it would be a waste of money. You can see the accuracy I have with this, and it's currently just on WAAS - The basic level! Only thing I'd like RTK for is remembering fields more, though even this system does that.

Normally there isn't any chatter on the steering wheel, I just put it in that tractor and didn't have it set right.

[JoshJJA]

I'm looking into a JD unit or two but it'd better be a LOT better to be worth the extra cost. The EZ-Steer is better for changing vehicles. This system went from an AGCOStar 4wd tractor in the spring, to a 7830 JD, 7630 JD, then to a SP Sprayer, then to another 4wd for fall tillage work. Would've gone on one of the swathers too had it not been busy on the sprayer.

Btw, thanks.

[92208330]

Great vid