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Ben Bryant

07-09-2000 12:18:27




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I have heard the term "layoff" used when referring to a plow or cultivator. Can someone please explain what operation this performs. Sorry to say that I have no background in farming, but this "layoff or layout" has been bugging me for a long time.
Thanks, Ben




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Tom from Ontario

07-10-2000 19:57:42




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 Re: Layoff tool in reply to Ben Bryant, 07-09-2000 12:18:27  
AD's right. There are just different terms when working a field so that you work in the most efficient method possible. Some guys laid out ploughing in narrow lands so they were'nt deadheading across the ends so much. Other guys made them as wide as possible to minimize the number of crown and dead furrows to work down later. When cultivating row crops, some people had to skip a machine width or two because their headlands were too narrow to turn into the next pass in one turn. When combiining windrowed grain, I always used a skip-two pattern and worked back in groups of seven..... ..... Work patterns can get very complicated. It all depends on your preferences, your field shapes and the desired result. AD's right.

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AD

07-10-2000 03:52:33




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 Re: Layoff tool in reply to Ben Bryant, 07-09-2000 12:18:27  
An old term for laying off land comes to mind and that is the amount of land you break,cultivate or disk before moving to another land. This was used when breaking ground with plows that didn't reverse or with cultivators when you couldn't turn into the next set of rows but have to skip to the next set. To prevent spending so much time going across the end of the rows to start plowing back the opposite direction. That is one use of the term may be another I don't know about. And it isn't a tool but a method of doing a job. Now watch someone come along and correct me.AD

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