Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | I prefer to only turn left when picking up windrows. Like you said, it gives the truck more room to turn than the chopper, and they always know which way to go. In corn we turn either direction depending on whether we're working on the inside or around the outside of a land. If done right we can chop a full circle only opening four passes after the headlands are off.
Since getting a merger for alfalfa there is now a lot more room on the headlands to turn around, and the chopper turns whatever way is needed to get to the next merged windrow. The chopper covers the ground so much faster its hard to keep the merger far enough ahead.
Edited by Big Ben 7/31/2014 14:34
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Clockwise or counterclockwise? (spout left or right cont.)
