Not exactly satellite steering!

Tractorcedric · Oct 5, 2020

Have you ever done this to help keep the rows straight? Seems like every time I leave a wide spot weeds get invited. So this year I put this stick under the Super 66 to help me stay in line. A small chain and a C clamp in last rounds tire track. I think it helped. The drill is a model 64 and the guy at the seed house said to shoot for 140 pounds to the acre. The drill chart only went up to 160. So I went for that setting. How much do you put on for irrigated white wheat. Seed was called Ovation and was treated. Planted in the dust in northern Utah.

SVcummins · Oct 5, 2020

Plant about 70 pounds fall seeded dryland wheat . 100 pounds dryland triticale. It is drier than a popcorn fart have you got any subsoil moisture?

Absent Minded Farmer · Oct 5, 2020

Yes, several years ago I cobbled together this contraption. Threw it together in about 20 minutes. It was one of those rare times where all the parts seemed to present themselves as needed.

The rod is the old one for the rear rollers on the deck of my Cub Cadet. It was bent & just dragging them along. The pin hole spacing worked great for this application. The springs are for the exhaust valves on a Farmall H. The fancy hangar on the end is from an incomplete disc marker kit for an IHC corn planter. The chain is a remnant of the one that busted on my Caswell loader. The hydraulic cylinder frame for that loader, that mounts to the bolster of my H, is what that chain marker setup fits. I can also stick two eye bolts in the holes for the front weights on my 460 that I used to have or the holes on the front of the weight box on the 806. It was inspired by the chain setup in the brochures for the 66 series.

Mike

Bob Bancroft · Oct 6, 2020

Two and a half bushels is 150#. Right where you are. That's in the range for NY. Can I assume irrigated wheat rate would be similar?

Tractorcedric · Oct 6, 2020

Yes I planted it in the dust, but my wife helped me set out some handlines that night in the moonlight. I will water it next summer this way. That is the canal bank in the back ground of the tractor and drill. It has been dry here but some how there was moisture three or four inches down.

rustred · Oct 6, 2020

i have been doing that for years. when spraying time comes you just follow the grain rows.

Not exactly satellite steering!

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