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North Central Indiana | Never considered it, we just don’t know what the **** we’re doing on the farm…
Yeah guy, we could spin the gauge wheels. But it’s all subjective when you use that type of measurement. How much force is too much force when trying to turn it by hand? Well if I’m twice as strong as you then we feel the same thing at completely different downforces. Dig a trench, drive 50 feet and dig again. Is it ever identical? It’s not here and we’re 70% system tiled across the farm. The corn always came up, and typically looked pretty uniform. But that’s the whole point of the hydraulic system. Row by row, detailed control, and adjusts as it goes through different soils. And there aren’t good systems to lift a row unit outside of hydraulics. The air systems for lift aren’t sized big enough for some scenarios. Take a 3 bushel box loaded full into some of the fluffy swamp bottom muck we farm and it’ll plant in an 8” deep trench unless you can lift the unit up. We were just satisfied with that for years because there wasn’t an alternative and the ground doesn’t pack so it was fine. But now you don’t have to worry about the corn being 2 feet tall before you can spray or sidedress so it doesn’t get buried in muck down in the trench. Suffice to say I, and we on this farm, find value in the capability of hydraulic row control | |
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How much is deltaforce and clean sweep worth?
