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Scranton | Takes the stress out of it. And maybe you don't have fences left, so varying doesn't matter as much. Adding up the years of experience in the half dozen nearby neighbors that use this method, I come up with over 300 years of experience.
Again, we've all tried it your way. Then our way. Our way is so much easier. Never a curve in the rows. No barbed wire dragging down the field. No wide spots where weeds grow or narrow where you catch a snoot on the hump of dirt in the fence. Its less than $100 plus an hour or two depending. To last for decades.
But we probably just aren't as good of tractor drivers as agtalkers.
EDIT: I used to work for Flexicoil in the early 90s. One of my many jobs was to help farmers with new pull sprayers get started. These were most 120-130' sprayers. Didn't matter if it was row crops in SD or wheat country in TX. Every single one I would give a little speech. These are wider than they appear. Lets just ease ourselves towards the fences (as we practiced while spraying water). Every single one would let their ego take over too soon. Every single one would end up in the fence one way or the other (usually while turning on the ends). We did have breakaways on the ends of the boom but it didn't always hit something solid enough to kick it. So then we'd be out with our pliers cutting barbed wired out of the boom.
Edited by Mark in WCIowa 3/17/2026 10:56
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good way to judge first pass with big planter