That’s awesome I’ve been trying to get some guys around my area to plow in a circle to fill pivot tracks, they always have some lame reason why it wouldn’t work
Do you plough to the centre or as far as the first tower? I visited a farm in Manitoba where they grew potatoes in circles under centre pivots. The area between the centre and first tower was uncropped. The pivots were run up on a line of mounds to give clearance for the machinery. That looks as though you are ploughing a half circle, the two ends don't meet, is that correct? A high overhead of the whole field would be interesting.
I’ve only done it with one job and that was custom harvesting peas, and even among those guys it’s rare. We still split the field into quarters, and then a small cut to turn the quarter into an eighth. It worked well enough if the operators could hold an arc, but get some bimbo who cant put their phone down, and you give someone with OCD a nightmare to fix…
My first thought on seeing that was that "someone is not able to drive in a straight line" before I realized it was a field with a cpi system. Does autosteer even exist that would work in a round field? Are you able to eliminate the ruts that that type of irrigation can sometimes leave? I'm jealous of the lack of stones in that field. How big is the piece that you're working?
In my experience, pivot track ruts are inevitable. Some are more shallow, some dig straight to hell. We had this contraption that would pull soil in from the sides into the rut and then tamp it down with a roller. Unfortunately it was almost too narrow and was quite hard to line up properly
@@oobreefarms Yeah, but in this video you're throwing the dirt toward the outside of the circle. Will you throw it back in next time? Oh, and what part of the world is this?
As a European I wonder how he does this without a reversible plow. He turns around but still throws the soil to the same direction while driving in opposite direction.
@@oobreefarms it's common knowledge, cultivation destroys soil function, it destroys the soil life habitat, and it burns off the critical carbon required for all life. That's the simplified version
