Mechanical Spraying is Expensive!



The John Deere 856 Cultivator has had the finger weeders installed and is out in the organic corn field on its first run

Sponsored By Teucrium ETFs. To Learn More and Read the Prospectus Visit: http://www.Teucrium.com
6th gen farmer
6th generation farmer
#JohnDeere
#Farm
#farmvlog

source

34 thoughts on “Mechanical Spraying is Expensive!”

  1. you might be fine with swapping the cultivator tines for a harrow type weeder, just let the sun dry out the exposed weeds it might be lighter that way and use way less power when u are not shifting so much soil for no reason

    might just be too cold where you guys are tho and the weeds would just grow again

    Reply
  2. Thank you! This was great, I appreciate seeing all the details and where the cultivator is most effective. It's a long way from a tractor mounted cultivator with front row crop tires! Much appreciated, Carson!! 🙂

    Reply
  3. We plant on raised beds so we have to be dead on like what y’all are doing…..
    We use rtk on our bedder tractor and planting and just use a A+heading for the guidance line and it works flawlessly.

    Reply
  4. Autopath works great! We use it for spraying and harvesting, you guys will love it! Tried the vision camera before autopath for spraying and it did not work very good.

    Reply
  5. AutoPath was introduced for the 2021 production year, it's very new

    To increase the capability for a cylinder, increase pressure for greater force, increase flow for higher speed.

    Reply
  6. Increasing pressure is done to increase lift capacity on the same size cylinder. Otherwise If your pressure is not changed then you will need to increase cylinder diameter. Leverage can be changed by keeping your lift arms short to the tractor. Maybe just a lift wheel while transporting to help?

    Reply
  7. Lol. Your dad when you describe how John Deere AutoPath will work: 'According to you."… You: "According to me … and John Deere." Yup that's what I do at work.. I will assert something and also say the vendor said it too. 🙂

    Reply
  8. i haven´t ever seen somebody using finger weeders that late in such hight corn. here, finger weeders are used for tiny corn, quit after emerging. such high corn is just hight up with earth by the shanks to cover little weeds, which emerged afterwards underneath

    Reply
  9. So you spent over 1000 dollars per row for finger weeders and than 2000 for camera equipment. I think that paying for RTK would have been cheaper and have a faster return. Also, you're going to want to switch the reaction bearing oil in the those camoplast track frames to synthetic and throw a magnetic drain plug in the hubs. That much weight ok the hitch will decrease bearing life. Just my .02 cents. Sweet cultivator & tractor!

    Reply
  10. Sorry to bother…is it time to post another one yet? 🙂 lol I just had a feeling, so I decided to write.

    I know, you have the hard part and we have the easy part, so no pressure! And thanks for the great videos you post Carson! I'm not harassing you I hope!

    Reply
  11. I saw the video on big tractor power. What I wondered is with individual seed box control on a planter, can you skip planting your turn around areas on your end rows so you don't spend money on wasted seeds? Seems like this would be easy to do from a programing perspective. Design the layout of the field with repeating turns around every so many feet.

    Reply
  12. In one of your other Videos you mentioned compaction problems… and along the rows that bar will be ok, but you will make some memorable compaction imprints at your headlands. Any tractor with weight in the 3-point, is nothing other like an seesaw, where the rear axle is the pivot point, and the ammount of stuff in your weightbox tells a tale. When liftet, i´ll bet 80-90% of the total weight of the combo is in the first 3-4 ft of the Tracks. forward the rear axle. you should set the bar on a diet, or maybe think about 2 follow caster wheels And more preassure=More power at the cylinders 😉

    Reply
  13. John Deere auto path works absolutely amazing!!! We farm by Lewisville/Truman area and we ran it this year and sprayed with it and it was absolutely unbelievable how well it worked!! Never once ran over any rows spraying at 12-15 mph.

    Reply

Leave a Comment