Guidance Systems

super99 · Dec 18, 2014

I'm thinking about getting a guidance system for spraying herbicide. I looked into it a couple of years ago and didn't do it then. I didn't have the time or vacation to use to get crops sprayed in a timely manner, so I hired it sprayed the last 2 years. Worked well, but was a lot more expensive than I was used to. I get 1 more week of vacation next year, so I can use 1/2 days or full days to spray this year. Back to thinking I need a cheap light bar. I had looked at a Outback system then for about $750. Should I stick with the Outback or is there something better in that price range now?? Thanks, Chris

cool hand · Dec 18, 2014

TeeJet Centerline 220 available at paulbparts.com for $785.

Chris in SK · Dec 18, 2014

I have a midtech/teejet centreline light bar that has worked well. It has a remote and is easy to use. I think I paid about $500 for it about 6 or 7 years ago so should be cheap now. I've used different outback models and they are very good.
Chris

Chris in SK · Dec 18, 2014

Forgot to mention I got mine used at a farm auction.

VicS · Dec 18, 2014

We have a older Mid-Tech. Bought from a neighbor for $400. Also a Outback.used on e-bay. Have the Mid-tec on the sprayer. It will count acres and speed. Bar bigger and easier to read. But Outback is one unit and easier to install. Use it in the mowing tractor. It will upgrade to auto steering.

notjustair · Dec 18, 2014

Get something you can use in the field. I use a couple of Raven units. They work pretty good and their customer service is really good. This important when you get to the field and it won't pull up a satellite and you have spray sitting in a sprayer that you now are afraid to unhook from the spraying tractor because it has 1000 gallons of roundup in it and weighs a gajillion pounds. With Raven you set your boom width and overlap and you are done (I assume they are all like that). The newer one will save the last job - the other one is too old so you have to finish a field all at once. They are nice here where no field is square.

DAVISFARMS · Dec 18, 2014

I have a centerline 220 only complaint is the contour offset in my rolling ground at sprayer width but for drilling beans good deal

JMS/.MN · Dec 18, 2014

I bought the Outback s-Lite this spring and liked it. I wouldn"t plant with it yet, but would be fine for spraying grain fields. Row crop, it"s not hard to count rows and follow them, even when I built the 60 foot boom. The s-Lite is really nice at night when the tractor lights barely cover the FC swath, or in dark dirt when it"s so hard to see the previous pass.

super99 · Dec 18, 2014

I looked online at Outback. Rural Mfg has a Outback S-lite GPS Guidance System for $699 with a 1 yr warranty. Fastline has a Outback 360, used with cables for $500. That's all I have seen so far. Thanks, Chris

JMS/.MN · Dec 18, 2014

Outback uses a steel disc with stickum to mount on the centerline of tractor hood. Magnetic pickup mounts on it. You can buy extra stickum discs for additional tractors. I imagine the magnet would work ok on any steel hood, by itself.

caterpillar guy · Dec 19, 2014

If you are going to use it on an open station tractor seeing the screen for setup is a problem. Kind of like your cell phone in bright light. It works best at dusk or just at daylight before the sun is bright. If in a cab shouldn't be an issue.
Ours is one by TEE Jet I think it is a matrix570 or something like it.

ztrmower · Dec 19, 2014

do you have your chemical permits ,or have yoou done the written test now required to show when you buy chemicals. personally i would not mess with it with the rules now.

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