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Missouri | Ag Leader, and Kinze ISOBUS clutching systems do not clutch the front independently from the rear.
This does mean that when clutching an interplant configuration, at each ends of each pass, one set of rows will overlap about 30", and the other set will stop short by about 30". Whether it's the front or back rows that are skipping or lapping depends on whether you are currently pulling into/out of the headland pass.
It would be nice to get them to clutch separately, but there's really not a meaningful gain to be had by doing so. 15 of those 30 inches of skip should not have any seed to them anyway (15" row spacing means your intersecting rows really should stop 15" before intersecting the outside row on the headland pass). What you're left with, is for about 15" of your planter's swath (on each end), your row spacing is effectively 30" instead of 15".
When I have customers that can't understand why that isn't really a big deal, adding or subtracting 2 or 3 tenths of a second (as appropriate) to the turn on/off look ahead timings will bring the clutch points on either end to where both the front and rear rows fully intersect the headland pass, resulting in half the rows lapping in about 5 feet, and half of them usually stopping right on the outside line. | |
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Basic question about row clutches/GPS
